Archives: Mineral processing

With a symbolic groundbreaking, drive manufacturer Flender has officially started construction work on the expansion of its German site in Voerde on the Lower Rhine. A new logistics and storage hall for the assembly of large gear units for the wind and industrial businesses, including mining and minerals, is being erected on almost 8,000 square[…]

The University of Melbourne has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement with Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL) to develop Carbelec™, a technology that uses electrolysis at low temperature to convert carbon dioxide into reusable carbon and oxygen. Carbelec is a potential game changer for industries such as steelmaking as it would enable the constant capture[…]

Haver & Boecker Niagara has engineered a new, elliptical motion Niagara XL-Class vibrating screen for a Brazilian iron ore producer that, it says, is ideal for applications challenged with high moisture content. The new technology can handle capacities up to 3,500 t/h while minimising water usage, with the XL-Class running in an elliptical motion of[…]

Kabanga Nickel is ready to put its ‘money where its technology is’ in the pursuit of production from a highly prospective nickel-copper-cobalt asset in Tanzania, according to Keith Liddell, Executive Chairman. Having been granted access to a project that has had more than $290 million spent on it by previous owners such as Barrick Gold[…]

Metso Outotec says it has signed a services contract for the delivery of four ball mill upgrade packages to a copper and gold mine in Asia Pacific, which has a value of €19 million ($21.4 million). Refurbishment projects for older, existing assets are an efficient method to extend a mill’s operating life, increase energy efficiency[…]

Aya Gold & Silver Inc has provided an update on the feasibility study for the Zgounder Silver Mine in the Kingdom of Morocco. It includes the appointment of Lycopodium Minerals Canada Ltd to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) of the new mineral processing plant, for expected completion in early Q2 2022. Detailed design has[…]

The modernisation and extension of Kopy Goldfields’ Yubileyniy plant has now been completed, almost doubling the processing capacity from 130,000 to 250,000 t of ore per annum. The increased capacity will facilitate the expansion of the gold production from Yubileyniy starting at the end of the fourth quarter 2021, and is expected to reach full[…]

Clough’s recently launched asset services business, e2o Asset Services, has been awarded a shutdown scope at Newcrest’s Lihir gold mine on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, it says. The scope awarded includes support shutdown maintenance activities, with the asset services team working with Newcrest to prepare, plan, schedule, execute, close out and improve the site’s[…]

Business as usual is how Kim Schoepflin CEO of Kwatani describes the news of the closing date of the transaction whereby Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions and Kwatani signed an agreement for the multi-national Sandvik Group to acquire the shares of this 45-year-old leading vibrating screen and feeder OEM. Schoepflin says when the exciting transaction, which[…]

The first DELKOR Dry Stack Tailings (DST) system to be supplied by TAKRAF Group in Brazil is being commissioned for one of the largest steel producers in the Americas, the company says. The order for the key equipment for the DST system was awarded in January 2019 and was followed shortly by an order being[…]