Archives: Mineral commodities

On October 15, China’s Zijin Mining released its Q3 2021 report, which detailed a net profit of CNY11.3 billion for the first nine months of the year, the first time it has broken through the CNY10 billion mark. This equates to some $1.76 billion, meaning it is rapidly positioning itself among the global Tier 1[…]

For decades, oil sands mining giants Suncor and Syncrude have been neighbours across Highway 63 in the Wood Buffalo region of Alberta. Suncor has been growing its ownership steadily since 2016 but the two have now finally come together on the ground as well. Suncor confirmed on October 1 that it has assumed operatorship of[…]

Boliden has been granted an environmental permit for an increase in the annual production rate in Garpenberg. As a result of the decision, bottleneck investments can be initiated with the aim of increasing production to 3.3 Mt/y of ore (milled volume). “This is a very welcome decision that gives us the opportunity to continue to[…]

Construction of two MMD Semi-Mobile Sizing Stations is underway in Northeast Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Xilinhe Coal Chemical Co Ltd, part of China Energy Group, also known as CHN Energy and the largest coal producer in the world, placed the order with MMD China through Ningxia Coal Construction Company in February 2021 to help meet[…]

In order to “support the mining industry’s efforts towards sustainability,” Clariant has announced a new technical facility in Brazil exclusively dedicated to developing solutions for tailings management. The Competence Center for Tailings Treatment (CCTT) opened on September 27 in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mining is a key enabler for the[…]

International Mining sat down with MMD at MINExpo 2021 for an exclusive update on its Fully Mobile Surge Loader (FMSL) – its innovative in-pit solution that acts as a mobile storage bunker between the shovel and a continuous flow of trucks. It is designed to be capable of an average fill rate of approximately 70[…]

EnviroGold Global Ltd, which describes itself as a clean technology company “accelerating the world’s transition to a circular-resource economy through the production of metals without mining,” has announce the execution of binding commercial agreements adding the Buchans River Delta Reclamation Project to its portfolio of environmental remediation and asset reclamation projects. The Buchans project includes[…]

Quickly developed material technology company Betolar and JA-KO Betoni, a company reforming the concrete industry, are assisting Keliber, which is preparing a lithium mine in Kaustinen, Finland, in utilising the massive side streams typically produced in the mining industry. Tailings produced as a side stream in Keliber’s minerals processing and analcime sand produced later in[…]

KGHM, the Polish copper and silver mining giant, has signed a joint commitment with the companies NuScale Power, an American leader amongst producers of small modular reactors technology, and with PBE Molecule, to develop SMR technology. NuScale’s technology for small nuclear reactors enables the production of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy. KGHM, as part of[…]

A division of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), JSC Kuzbassrazrezugol (KRU), which specialises in the extraction of coal, is implementing at all of their branches the ZM OpenMine mining fleet management system from Zyfra, the Finnish-Russian supplier of digital solutions for mining and other heavy industries. The ZM OpenMine system is already operating[…]