Archives: Mining industry recognition

The global mineral resources industry has been told to pick up its pace in coping with commodity price and supply cycles and take some strategic lessons in “how to manage boom and busts” from other global industry peers. McKinsey & Company Partner, Prabhav Sharma, told the Australian Geoscience Council convention in Adelaide today that mining[…]

Altech Chemicals has received the Certificate of Grant for an Innovation Patent from the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia), for its process of producing high purity alumina (HPA) from kaolin (aluminous clay). Altech originally filed the patent titled ‘A Method for the Preparation of Alumina’ in October 2014. This affords protection to Altech and its[…]

IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and Newmont Mining Corp have established a three-year collaborative agreement to identify ways the company can meet its global targets to achieve no net loss in biodiversity, and net gains where possible.  There is also the aim of advance knowledge sharing and best practices. As part of the[…]

NioCorp Developments Ltd and IBC Advanced Alloys have announced the successful production of aluminium-scandium master alloy.  The master alloy was produced at the Ames Laboratory, a US government-owned, contractor-operated national laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE), located in Ames, Iowa. NioCorp and IBC intend to use the master alloy from this program to[…]

The ITA’s 14th annual survey of tin users gathered data from tin users worldwide between June and August 2018, showing robust growth of 4% in 2017 but much weaker tin use growth forecasts in 2018. Tin use growth in China has stalled though elsewhere the picture is more positive. A total of 109 companies took[…]

Much of the talk at Roskill’s Tantalum 2018 conference, held in London last week, was focussed on industry efforts to improve responsible sourcing of raw material tantalum. It was made clear by several speakers that tantalum is still very much a conflict mineral, defined as ‘minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights[…]

The AusIMM Mill Operators Conference in Brisbane, Australia, on August 31 provided the opportunity for a formal presentation to the 2018 CEEC Medal winners. This is a prestigious annual global award that celebrates outstanding published research and field work on strategies for energy efficient comminution. This year’s award for Operations went to the authors of[…]

Hill End Gold reports that marketing discussions reveal high purity alumina’s (HPA) use in lithium batteries and synthetic sapphire for high‐technology is growing rapidly, creating the ideal environment for Hill End’s Yendon HPA project: Discussions with manufacturers of lithium battery separators highlight the huge increases they are making in their production capacity Some are in[…]

Trafigura Group, one of the world’s leading independent commodity trading companies has successfully taken the first step towards reopening one of Africa’s most historic trade routes, with an epic train journey that ended in the Angolan port of Lobito a few days ago. A cargo of 800 t of blister copper, purchased by Trafigura from[…]

The World Gold Council, the market development organisation for the gold industry, reports that Shandong Gold Group has now joined the Board as a Member. Shandong Gold Group is one of the largest gold producers in China and is actively committed to ecological mining. It is also listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. In addition,[…]