Archives: Metallurgy

Pavel Grachev, Chief Executive Officer of PJSC Polyus, commented in the company’s FY2017 results just released: “The strength of our assets and the focus on efficiency have enabled Polyus to deliver production numbers above our official guidance of 2,075-2,125 thousand ounces for the fourth year in a row, at 2,160 thousand ounces, or 3% higher…in[…]

Emergent Technology Holdings LP is pleased to announce its first industry partnership with Yamana Gold Inc. Yamana, a global precious metals mining company, is the first to license Emergent’s blockchain technology supply chain solution, which traces the provenance of Conflict-Free Gold from mines to refineries, and through to vaults. The solution uses blockchain technology to[…]

Leading mineral process company, Multotec Process Equipment, will be providing a continuous ion exchange (Clean-iX®) metals processing scavenging equipment to a customer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The equipment, using Clean-iX® ion exchange technology from Melbourne-based metals recovery and industrial water treatment specialists Clean TeQ, will treat up to 20 million litres a day[…]

SSAB’s, LKAB’s and Vattenfall’s prefeasibility study is giving the green light for the fossil-free steel initiative, HYBRIT. For the first time in 1,000 years, there is an opportunity for a technology shift and, as early as this spring, a globally-unique pilot plant for fossil-free steel is being planned for Northern Sweden. The planning and designing[…]

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, has signed an agreement with the European research and technology organisation VITO to assess the viability of using bauxite residue, an industrial by-product, in large volume construction materials. VITO will work closely with experts at the University of[…]

Aluminium of Kazakhstan JSC, owned by Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources group, recently announced that it has opened two new mines in the Krasno-Oktyabrskoye Mining Unit in Kazakhstan. Investments have totalled $21.5 million. The launch of Mine No. 9 at the Ayatsky site and Mine No. 17 at the Krasnogorsky site,[…]

During the last six months, Metso has received orders to install over 50 flotation cells in Spain and Portugal, ranging from small 15 m³ units to large 300 m³ cells. Metso will deliver flotation equipment to expansion projects by Almina, Somincor and other leading mining companies located on the Iberian Pyrite Belt as well as[…]

The Bolivian state-owned smelter, Empresa Metalúrgica Vinto, has revealed that refined tin production fell by 3.1% year-on-year to 12,637 t in 2017, although revenues increased by 11% to some $255 million, according to local sources. ITRI believes that the small decline in production last year “was likely a result of disruption related to a month-long[…]

Australian Mines Ltd reports that the critical autoclave component for its demonstration-size processing plant arrived and was installed over the Christmas period at the Simulus Laboratories site in Perth, Western Australia. Commissioning of the processing plant on schedule for the end of this month Potential off-take partners to receive cobalt sulphate, nickel sulphate and scandium[…]

As International Preliminary Examining Authority, The Australian Patent Office has deemed Lithium Australia’s SiLeach technology – a process for extracting and recovering lithium values from lithium-bearing materials – both novel and inventive and says it meets the requirements for Industrial Applicability. In so doing, it has confirmed that the SiLeach process is patentable, paving the[…]