Archives: Mineral processing

With the shareholder vote on BHP’s proposed acquisition of copper and gold mining group OZ Minerals expected to be held in early April 2023, and with OZ Minerals Directors unanimously recommending shareholders vote in favour, it is a good time to review the miner’s progress in 2022 and plans for 2023 across its main mining[…]

Among a long list of new products, digital solutions and displays Sandvik plans to introduce at North America’s largest construction tradeshow, CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023, in Las Vegas, USA, is the Ranger™ DX910i, the company’s latest flagship top hammer surface drill rig. Sandvik will showcase some of its newest innovations in surface drilling, rock tools, stationary crushing[…]

BQE Water Inc, a leader in the treatment and management of mine impacted waters, has been awarded a contract for the design, construction and operation of a SART (sulphidisation, acidification, recycling and thickening) plant to improve gold leaching efficiency and overall cyanide management at a gold metallurgical facility in Shandong Province, China, owned by Shandong[…]

NRW Holdings subsidiary, Primero Group, has been awarded a contract by Pilgangoora Operations Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pilbara Minerals Limited, for work at the lithium processing plant that is part of the wider Pilgangoora operation, in Western Australia. The works to be performed under the contract include upgrading the existing Pilgan lithium processing[…]

Global mineral processing solutions company Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is this year to integrate its two recent South African acquisitions into the Sandvik company structure – with the aim of becoming the preferred crushing and screening supplier to the mining industry in Africa. Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions South Africa will be formed from Kwatani, acquired[…]

Tailings management and the safe construction and operation of tailings dams are challenges that require qualified Engineers of Record (EORs). Identifying, developing, and maintaining qualified EORs requires commitment, innovation, and solutions from the entire mining industry. The EOR is at the forefront of successful tailing management. This critical role is now expected as part of[…]

FLSmidth has been selected to supply its ninth high performance semi-mobile crushing plant in a row to leading copper miner First Quantum Minerals. This new crushing plant will increase production and efficiency, contributing to the customer’s expansion plans in Africa. Following the successful commissioning of a semi-mobile crushing plant in early 2022, which is the[…]

FLSmidth’s Capital Markets Day on January 18, 2023 marked the culmination of a major portfolio review that really ramped up on the completion of its acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s mining business on September 1, 2022. But the overall change at FLSmidth also runs much deeper – Group CEO Mikko Keto also said during the CMD event[…]

Draslovka Holding a.s., a Czech family-owned global leader in cyanide-based specialty chemicals, says its glycine leaching technology has been selected to be part of the OZ Minerals’ Think & Act Differently (TAD) incubator and Waste-to-Value Challenge. The latter challenge, announced back in December, sees Rio Tinto and Boliden working in collaboration with OZ Minerals to[…]

TerraSource Global – a premier manufacturer of high-quality material sizing equipment based on the Gundlach, Jeffrey Rader and Pennsylvania Crusher brands, and subsidiary of Right Lane Industries – has announced the acquisition of Elgin Separation Solutions as of January 12, 2023. Elgin designs, manufactures and services material processing parts and equipment for mining, energy production,[…]