Archives: Mineral processing

Global mining drives major WEG via its Russian Commercial Operation WRU has completed a major project for customer PJSC Polyus Gold at its Natalka mine in the Magadan Region. The scope of supply included a pair of slip ring motors of 9,000 kW at 1,000 rpm and another two motors of 7,500 kW also at[…]

Capstone Mining has brought a second Caterpillar 994K wheel loader to its Pinto Valley operation in Arizona, USA, as it looks to reduce its emissions and improve its operating cost base at the copper mine. Last year, the mine added to its fleet a Cat 994K loader, which, the company says, burns circa-30 less gallons[…]

TOMRA Sorting Mining has introduced the TOMRA ACT user interface together with a new image processing pipeline and additional process data for TOMRA Insight, all of which will, the company says, enable improvements in the overall sorting process for greater productivity and profitability. The new TOMRA ACT graphical user interface (UI) brings a fundamental change[…]

The African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) board of directors has approved the Two Rivers Merensky Project which involves mining of the Merensky reef at Two Rivers Mine. Total capital expenditure for the project is expected to be approximately ZAR5.7 billion (100% basis) to be spent over three years. Construction is planned to commence in July 2021[…]

Magnetic and sensor sorting solutions company Steinert has set up a new testing plant at Navachab gold mine, near Karibib, in Namibia – owned by private equity firm QKR. The test facility is available for testing in beneficiation and preconcentration processes. How is it that a Steinert customer opens the door to support other potential[…]

Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc (DST) has entered into a Technology Framework Agreement with Hatch Ltd for the utilisation of DST’s arsenic stabilisation technology, known as the GlassLock Process™, in combination with Hatch’s fluid bed roasting and arsenic dry scrubbing technologies, on gold and arsenopyrite projects. “We are very pleased to announce this collaboration agreement with[…]

Generation Mining Ltd has announce the results of the feasibility study for the Marathon palladium and copper project located near the town of Marathon in northwestern Ontario. It supports an open pit mining operation with a robust rate of return over a 13-year mine life. In the first three years of production following commercial production[…]

Vimson Group and Newlab’s Prospect Mining Studio announced today a half million dollar investment in its cohort member company CyanoGuard, the Switzerland-based chemtech startup shaping the future of cyanide detection for the gold mining industry. The investment caps the company’s extended seed round – with the first closing  in April 2020 – at more than[…]

Polymetal recorded a strong set of financials in 2020, with its revenue, adjusted EBITDA and net earnings metrics all benefitting from higher production volumes and commodity prices. Revenue increased by 28% year-on-year to $2.87 billion, adjusted EBITDA rose 57% to $1.69 billion and net earnings hit a record $1.09 billion in 2020. The company’s 2020[…]

Metso Outotec is launching three Shutdown Services programs centred around planning and execution activities for improved shutdown performance. Each of the new packages aim at a different stage of the shutdown process and provide benefits in terms of expertise or resources. The packages can act as standalone packages or complement the customer’s current shutdown planning[…]