Archives: Mineral processing

Global Atomic Corporation has announced the signing of Development Consultants Private Ld (DCPL) of Kolkata, India, and Lycopodium Minerals Canada Ltd to commence the basic and detailed engineering, procurement and Project Management of the Dasa Mine processing plant in the Republic of Niger. These engineering and project delivery firms were selected to form an Integrated[…]

International Battery Metals Ltd says SLR International Corporation (SLR), a leader in environmental and engineering services, has completed its independent review of IBAT’s first-of-its-kind modular, mobile lithium extraction plant and verified the patented technology extracts more than 65% of available lithium from brine, effectively strips out impurities and recycles and reuses more than 94% of[…]

Maelgwyn Mineral Services says it has officially opened its new combined Maelgwyn Africa and Maelgwyn South Africa premises in Boundary Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new facility offers over 4,000 sq.m of floor space housing state-of-the-art offices, workshops, metallurgical and analytical laboratories, together with a world-class metallurgical pilot facility, the company says. The metallurgical[…]

Metso Outotec is launching NextGen Pelletizing™, a visionary concept for the next generation of pelletising plants that, it says, strive to be carbon-neutral and autonomous. This concept is a part of the company’s Planet Positive offering focused on environmentally efficient technologies. Attaul Ahmad, Vice President, Ferrous and Heat Transfer business at Metso Outotec, said: “NextGen[…]

Optimising the productivity of mine sites while reducing costs, resource use and environmental footprint FLSmidth says has long been its primary goal. With the launch of PerformanceIQ Services at PERUMIN, FLSmidth now promises to “supercharge mine performance through a full flowsheet approach to optimisation based on equipment knowledge, process expertise and digital solutions.” PerformanceIQ Services[…]

The OZ Minerals Board has greenlit the build of the West Musgrave copper-nickel project in Western Australia, paving the way for the development of a remote asset using dry grinding technology, autonomous haulage and a significant volume of renewable power. West Musgrave is set to become OZ Minerals’ fourth operating asset when it starts producing[…]

Metso Outotec has been awarded equipment orders by G Mining Ventures Corporation for the company’s flagship asset, the Tocantinzinho gold project, in Para State, Brazil. The value of the orders is approximately €20 million ($19.7 million). Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery to the greenfield project consists of a compact aggregates plant and the key process[…]

Today, the International Council on Minerals and Metals (ICMM) has published a Tailings Reduction Roadmap which, it says, lays out innovative approaches and solutions capable of significantly reducing tailings from the mine life cycle, as part of a broader Tailings Innovation Initiative. The initiative brings together a third of the global mining and metals industry[…]

Caravel Minerals has issued a prefeasibility study update on its namesake project in Western Australia, which, among other things, outlines opportunities to incorporate high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs) and coarse particle flotation (CPF). The company only issued the original prefeasibility study in July of this year. This outlined a dual train plant and infrastructure build[…]

Metso Outotec says it is introducing the next generation of its agitated OKTOP® CIL Reactor for gold cyanide leaching and recovery. The Planet Positive reactor is suitable for carbon-in-leach (CIL) and carbon-in-pulp (CIP) process applications and with minimised activated carbon fines related gold losses and energy consumption. The company says it represents the most sustainable[…]