Archives: Mineral processing

Eriez® has announced the launch of its new SEV series of Suspended Electromagnets, representing, it says, a significant advancement in suspended electromagnet design. These units feature stronger magnets housed in smaller enclosures, reducing overall weight and installation costs while optimising performance efficiency, the company says. Integrated into the Eriez SE7000 line, the new SEV models[…]

During the EXPONOR 2024 event in Antofagasta, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore met with Enaex Key Account Manager Sebastian Catron to discuss its latest innovations and offerings to the mining sector. Catron began: “After we win the bidding process to supply explosives and blasting services to a mining customer, whether that is a renewal of[…]

The Antofagasta Region was – once again – a global focal point of the mining industry, as it hosted the twentieth edition of EXPONOR, organised by the Antofagasta Industrial Association, AIA, and which was attended by IM where we carried out interviews with some major mining technology suppliers and mining companies. Juan Duran at the[…]

The highest wear part on an Overband Magnet is the belt that transfers the separated metal away from the conveyor and into a collection area. In order to reduce such wear in applications from mining to recycling to biomass power plants, Bunting has developed a special lightweight armouring for the rubber belt. In operation, an[…]

Barrick says it is ‘revolutionising’ copper concentration through the use of Woodgrove Technologies’ Direct Flotation Reactor (DFR) technology at the MBCC Jabal Sayid copper mine in Saudi Arabia, adding: “This technology features a smaller footprint, greater efficiency, and unparalleled selectivity, enabling the transition from rougher concentrate to final concentrate in a single stage.” The Jabal[…]

Metso has been awarded orders for the delivery of grinding plant equipment for South32’s greenfield Hermosa project in the Patagonia Mountains in southern Arizona. The order is booked in the Minerals segment’s 2024 June-quarter orders received, the OEM says. Metso’s scope of delivery includes a Premier™ Primary Autogenous Grinding (AG) Mill and a Vertimill® VTM-4500[…]

Betolar and Norge Mineraler AS have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on creating sustainable mining solutions, the companies say. The goal of the cooperation is to support the green transition in Norge Mineraler’s operation, with the memorandum of understanding serving as a starting point for potential broader collaboration between the parties. The parties[…]

Flender CEO Andreas Evertz said “we are reinventing the standard” when the company introduced the Flender One single stage version to the market last year. Now, this reinvention has entered its next chapter with Flender announcing the global launch of the next extension of Flender One gearboxes. After the models for pumps and paper applications,[…]

In the presence of the Undersecretary of Mining, Suina Chahuán, and Codelco Executive President, Rubén Alvarado, Codelco recently launched its ‘Electromobility for El Salvador’ program, through which its Salvador Division in the Atacama Region converted 100% of its bus fleet to electric. This project was implemented by Enel X and Tandem Industrial and executed under[…]

Metso has been awarded with a contract valued at around €15 million ($16 million) to deliver several thickeners and filters to a mine water treatment project in Peru. Metso’s scope of delivery includes several high-rate thickeners operating in a high density sludge (HDS) mine water treatment application and automatic EBS series liquid filters with an[…]