Archives: Mineral processing

The value a ‘true’ digital twin could provide the mineral processing and metallurgical industries has been spoken of continuously throughout the last few years, and Metso Outotec believes it is on the cusp of realising such value with its “science-based” Metso Outotec Geminex™ digital twin. Designed to manage variability and optimise resources, the solution simulates[…]

Metso Outotec has been awarded what it says is a major contract for the delivery of sustainable tailings filtration technology to PT Huafei Nickel Cobalt’s greenfield laterite nickel ore project in Indonesia. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery consists of the engineering, manufacturing and supply of the Planet Positive Larox® FFP3512 filters, as well as installation[…]

Mineral process equipment specialist Multotec’s global reach has recently been highlighted with the supply of slurry pumps to a chrome project in Kazakhstan. According to Gerhard Hendriksz, General Manager, responsible for slurry pumps at Multotec, an order of 38 slurry pumps was delivered in mid-December 2021 through a collaboration of Multotec’s international business team and[…]

With the implementation of the Integrated Operations Centre (CIO), the Quellaveco copper mine in Peru will become the first Anglo American operation in the world that has been 100% digital since its inception. Anglo American Peru comments: “Thus, while other mines adapt their processes to technology, a project conceived to put data at the service[…]

MMG Ltd has announced progress with two major expansions at its mining operations – first off it has approved extending the life of its Kinsevere copper operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for at least 13 years; while in Peru, the Ministry of Energy and Mines has released the regulatory approval for the[…]

The Musonoi River Valley in the Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has, for some decades, been the site of land degradation resulting from inadequate and ineffective tailings and other waste management systems. The local water system and surrounding land has been subjected to pollution from more than 83.2 Mt of[…]

Murray & Roberts owns a controlling share in Insig Technologies, a rapidly growing mining centric digitalisation, electrification, interoperability and automation solutions company based out of Perth in Australia. It assists its clients – both Murray & Roberts mining platform companies, their mining clients and other miners, to produce customised, fit-for-purpose mining solutions, and in addition[…]

GR Engineering Services has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Thunderbird Operations Pty Ltd (TOPL) for a mineral processing plant and associated facilities for the Thunderbird mineral sands project in Western Australia. TOPL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kimberley Minerals Sands Pty Limited (KMS), which is 50% owned by Sheffield[…]

Orica has announced the release of its latest fragmentation monitoring solution, FRAGTrack™ Crusher, an automated pre-crusher fragmentation measurement tool delivering, it says, operational continuity in a safe and reliable way. Based on the success of the existing suite of automated post-blast fragmentation monitoring solutions, Orica has developed FRAGTrack Crusher to meet growing demand from customers[…]

Weir Minerals has signed a digital business framework with industrial software provider, AVEVA, with an aim to use the AVEVA PI System™ as the data foundation for the OEM’s Synertrex® digital ecosystem. Weir Minerals intends to use the AVEVA PI System to collect, contextualise and analyse data streams wihtin the context of Synertrex, its advanced[…]