Archives: Mineral processing

Higher head grades and recoveries, a reduction in run-of-mine material reporting to the milling and flotation circuit, a smaller tailings management facility, and lower power and water demand are just some of the benefits to have come out of ore sorting test work at Kutcho Copper’s copper-zinc project in British Columbia, Canada. Recent bulk sample[…]

Metso Outotec is opening a new laser welding unit, customised for demanding production conditions, at its filtration technology centre in Lappeenranta, Finland. The new laser welding unit will add to the centre’s manufacturing capacity and enable the production of higher-quality welded structures in a safer and more environmentally friendly manner, the company says. The value[…]

Boliden has opened a new leaching plant and underground repository at its Rönnskär operations in Sweden as it looks to extract additional metal from residual materials at the smelter and store any remaining waste in a sustainable way. For many years, residual materials from smelting processes containing copper, zinc and lead, among other elements, have[…]

Metso Outotec has appointed Cyriac Tor Ltd as a distributor of its pumps in the UK, with the agreement covering slurry pumps, spare parts, seals and hoses, commissioning, service contracts and technical support to all industry sectors in England, Scotland and Wales. The contract came into effect this month and will run alongside all existing[…]

Core Lithium has awarded Primero Group with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Finniss lithium process plant in the Northern Territory of Australia. Primero’s award status has been updated from the initial preferred status awarded in 2019 and continues the long-standing relationship in the development of the project with the Core Lithium[…]

In order to “support the mining industry’s efforts towards sustainability,” Clariant has announced a new technical facility in Brazil exclusively dedicated to developing solutions for tailings management. The Competence Center for Tailings Treatment (CCTT) opened on September 27 in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mining is a key enabler for the[…]

Enter Engineering and thyssenkrupp AG have signed an Agreement of Intent that could see the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor take the exclusive role as construction partner in building an integrated mining metallurgical complex at the Tebinbulak iron ore deposit in Uzbekistan. The pact, worth €50 million ($58 million), comes on top of a[…]

ABB is to provide six electrical rooms plus an integrated digital system solution based on the ABB Ability™ 800xA distributed control system (DCS) to Gold Fields’ Salares Norte mining project in a remote region of northern Chile. The open-pit gold-silver mine project by the South African mining company is located in the Atacama Desert amongst[…]

TOMRA’S XRT sensor-based sorting technology is unlocking significant value for Gem Diamonds at its Letšeng Diamond Mine. It delivered an effective solution for coarse fractions in historical tailings dumps, recovering 15 times the initial investment in four years. This success has led to the installation of the first TOMRA Final Recovery sorter in the world,[…]

BacTech Environmental Corporation, the environmental technology company delivering effective biomining metal recovery and eco-friendly remediation solutions, hsa announced strategic growth plans “to help accelerate the creation of new intellectual property (IP) being developed to pursue different commercial bioleaching opportunities as identified by the company.” It adds: “As demand for greater environmental responsibility across the mining[…]