Archives: Mineral processing

Metso Outotec says it will invest in its first polymer filter plate production unit in Mexico in response to global demand for high-quality filtration solutions for its mining customers’ filter presses. The company expects to invest a total of around €28 million ($28 million) to acquire the land and develop the production facilities by 2025.[…]

Metso Outotec says it is re-introducing its TankCell® offering – the largest of its kind on the market – in an effort to further provide efficient and economical plant design with high availability and reduced plant footprint for any application. Since the 1990s, Metso Outotec has delivered nearly 8,000 TankCell flotation cells to mining customers[…]

PT Vale Indonesia Tbk has again agreed to collaborate with Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co (Huayou) to develop a nickel smelter with High Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) technology in Sorowako. The two parties’ cooperation has started early this year and Huayou conducted the feasibility study. The feasibility study has been concluded with a positive outcome. With[…]

Tungsten West PLC, the mining company focussed on restarting production at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in Devon in the UK has provided a comprehensive update on progress with financing and construction. As announced on July 19, 2022 the company committed to detailed engineering design and to commencing construction based on a new development[…]

Since bringing Holman shaking table production back to Cornwall in the early 2000s, Holman-Wilfley Ltd says it is now excited to announce that the 1,000th Holman machine is now ready to leave the factory. The 1,000th Holman headmotion has been installed on a Holman Wilfley 2000 shaking table which are exported globally and predominantly used[…]

Sixth Wave Innovations Inc says it has signed a three-phase test and implementation contract that will field its patented IXOS® molecular imprinted polymer for extraction and purification of gold and silver at Magnus Resources’ majority-owned Penhalonga gold mine in Zimbabwe. Additionally, Magnus Resources plans to build and deploy three smaller processing plants to assist regional[…]

CIMIC Group’s mineral processing company, Sedgman, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to deliver services for Artemis Gold at the Blackwater gold project in British Columbia, Canada. The EPC contract, which supersedes the temporary interim service agreement announced on May 2, 2022, will generate revenue for Sedgman of C$318 million ($245[…]

The development of the integrated Zinnwald lithium project in Germany could see the incorporation of a battery-electric fleet of LHDs and the return of metal production to a region of saxony with mining history dating back to the Middle Ages. The London-listed owner of the project, Zinnwald Lithium Plc, has just released a preliminary economic[…]

Copperstone Resources AB and GreenIron H2 AB are starting a joint development project, based on GreenIron’s fossil-free reduction process and Copperstone’s future by-product flows from planned copper and magnetite mining. The project intends to optimise material handling both before and after GreenIron’s process. Copperstone will contribute with material handling and analysis and GreenIron will contribute[…]

TOMRA X-Ray Transmission (XRT) sorters are providing a game-changing solution for the EQ Resources-owned Mt Carbine mine in Queensland, Australia, reducing costs and achieving high-purity tungsten ore for follow-on processing while contributing to a circular economy by producing green aggregates for sale, the ore sorting company says. The Mt Carbine mine, northwest of Cairns, Queensland,[…]