Archives: Mining consumables

The Indonesian gold and silver producer PT Agincourt Resources (PTAR) has chosen Metso’s energy efficient grinding technology to be used at the company’s Martabe gold mine in Sumatra. The Metso Vertimill® VTM-4500 stirred mill is the largest of its kind to be installed in Indonesia. The order has been booked in Metso’s orders received in[…]

Another key milestone was achieved by Oz Minerals’ Prominent Hill mine team in January 2020 with over 1,000 spools being installed underground by Quattro Project Engineering (QPE) for the Malu Paste Reticulation project. Prominent Hill is on track to have one of the largest underground paste reticulation systems globally, incorporating the latest in innovation with[…]

Glencore Technology have transformed their popular IsaMill™ licensees’ free maintenance program to a mobile app that allows operations to optimise each mill’s performance and maintenance, achieving gains in life of asset, availability and reducing operating costs. The IMIS App, exclusively for IsaMill customers, allows operators to manage maintenance, work tasks and mill availability, plus gain[…]

Two major manufacturers of mining machinery and equipment are now cooperating on the world market: GHH from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and MacLean from Ontario, Canada, announced their cooperation at a plant inauguration in Mexico in February. MacLean intends to use the new production facility in Queretaro to reach customers in Latin America in particular, and to[…]

Eldorado Gold Corporation has announced a 15-year remaining mine life at Kisladag based on the completed long-cycle heap leach testwork and the replacement of the tertiary crushing circuit with a high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR) circuit. “Kisladag has been the cornerstone asset of Eldorado for over a decade, producing over 3 Moz of gold and generating[…]

FLSmidth has received an order from Slavkaliy to supply equipment to a new potassium (potash) mining and processing facility in Belarus. The contract is valued at around DKK 360 million and will be booked in Q1 2020. FLSmidth will deliver liquid-solid separation equipment islands to Slavkaliy for a new facility in the Nezhinsky area of[…]

Metso announced in 2018 a greenfield foundry project in Vadodara, India, with a target to increase the casting wears capacity for the mining and aggregate industries. The First Pour event was celebrated today and the foundry has started production for customer deliveries for local and global markets in February. “The state-of-the-art foundry will have a[…]

Bradken, as part of a research collective, is to work on a project aimed at delivering a digital step-change in grinding mill design and performance. The company, which specialises in equipment wear parts and services, made the announcement following the award of an Australian Government grant of A$545,000 ($362,264) for the project, which will focus[…]

Another highlight of Anglo American Platinum’s just released 2019 report was the revelation that electric narrow reef mechanised equipment is set for trials at its Tumela 15E underground platinum mine, part of the Amandelbult Complex in Limpopo province. These new narrow reef machines use lithium-ion batteries which can achieve up to 2,000 charging cycles. These[…]

Orica has signed an agreement with interests associated with Grupo Breca (Breca) to acquire all of its shares in Breca Soluciones de Voladura SAC, and its associates’ shares in Exsa SA (together representing 83.5% of the total shares outstanding in EXSA SA), payable in cash. Exsa, which is listed on the Lima Stock Exchange, is[…]