Archives: Metallurgy

Nevada Clean Magnesium reports that the TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing the Binding Memorandum of Understanding dated February 1, 2017 between Nevada Clean Magnesium (NCM) and Big Blue Technologies whereby the company and BBT have agreed to enter into a technical joint venture. Both parties will work together to further develop the NCM[…]

Roskill reports that Korean steel-maker Posco has started commercial production of lithium carbonate in Gwangyang, with a 2,500 t/y capacity plant aiming to supply domestic battery material manufacturers, including Posco’s subsidiary Posco ESM. PosLX, as the plant is known, uses a proprietary extraction technology developed by Posco. Feedstock for PosLX is lithium phosphate, currently sourced[…]

Derick de Wit, Associate Director, and Garth Marshall, Manager, Venmyn Deloitte note that “metal accounting is becoming an area of increasing focus due to the requirement for the resulting data to feed directly into financial reports. Metal accounting is vital to sound corporate governance and to assist in this area of scrutiny, Venmyn Deloitte designs[…]

High capacity furnace and smelting plant specialist, Tenova Pyromet has announced that the 45 MVA submerged arc furnace for the Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) Chandrapur Ferro Alloy Plant (CFP) has been successfully switched in. Ramping up and tapping of the silicomanganese (SiMn) furnace, the largest in India, is in progress. Tenova Pyromet carried[…]

RNC Minerals has welcomed the announcement on November 27, 2016 of a nickel offtake agreement entered into by Western Areas Ltd and the Tsingshan Group, China’s largest stainless steel producer, as further validation of RNC’s roasting approach as a more valuable alternative to traditional nickel smelting and refining for nickel sulphide concentrate. RNC first successfully[…]

Weir Minerals has announced that 2016 marks its 125 year anniversary for one of its long standing brands – Lewis® pumps. For 125 years, Weir Minerals Lewis Pumps has developed an international reputation in the design and manufacture of pumps and valves in the sulphur, sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid industries; with sulphuric acid in[…]

Leading global aluminium producer UC RUSAL has launched the first RA-550 pot of a new generation running at over 550 kA at the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter as part of a $28 million project. The key benefit of the new pots is their energy efficiency. An RA-550 cell consumes around 12 kW*h/kg of aluminium, which is[…]