Archives: Steel and iron ore

LKAB is developing technology to recycle mine waste to produce phosphorus mineral fertilisers, rare earth elements (REEs), fluorine and gypsum, in a project called ReeMAP. The first step is to use the mine waste to produce an apatite concentrate, something LKAB is now doing in their pilot plant. Leif Boström, senior Vice President for Business[…]

Metalloinvest has begun replacing the magnetic separators at iron ore mining complex Mikhailovsky GOK’s beneficiation plant, as part of the company’s large-scale modernisation and technical re-equipping programme to increase the plant’s production volumes. Replacing single-drum magnetic separators with more modern and productive ones will increase iron ore concentrate production by 10,200 t per year. The[…]

Zanaga Iron Ore says a concept study on the viability of using a floating dewatering, storage and offloading (FDSO) port facility shows the potential for a $184 million reduction in capital costs for the 12 Mt/y Stage One development at the Zanaga iron ore project in the Republic of Congo. Following an approach in 2019[…]

REMA TIP TOP Australia says it has been contracted by Monadelphous to install a further 24 km of conveyor belting and provide expert splicing services for the “outflows infrastructure” at BHP’s South Flank iron ore project, in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It follows a contract to install more than 50 km of conveyor belting[…]

Downer EDI Ltd has announced that it is expanding its relationship with Fortescue Metals Group through the provision of a Early Mining and Maintenance Services contract at the Eliwana iron ore mine, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This is the second Eliwana project package to be executed by Downer, the first being the[…]

China like in other mining equipment and technology areas is a complex actor in the world of underground rail. It has its own domestic players in locomotive supply, including XEMC and Hunan Yutong which can both supply diesel, battery, battery-trolley and trolley solutions of more or less any kind and any size that would be[…]

Weir Group division ESCO® says it recently fitted a set of fabricated hinge necks as part of a hydraulic face shovel bucket repair for an iron ore mine in Africa. The ESCO hinge necks ran for 5,000 hours in hard abrasive conditions. Operating in the same conditions, the OEM cast hinge necks reached end of[…]

Australian Vanadium Ltd and Westgold Resources have signed a co-operation agreement that could see surplus water from operations at the Meekatharra asset used at the Australian Vanadium project in Western Australia. Westgold’s Meekatharra operations comprise several active and inactive mines south of Meekatharra, 25 km to the west of the Australian Vanadium project, with continuous[…]

Start-up of Pembroke Resources’ Olive Downs coking coal project in Queensland, Australia, has edged closer after the company confirmed it had received project approvals from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The EPBC approvals, together with the grant of the Environmental Authority (EA) by[…]

Trelleborg’s fluid handling operation is improving uptime at the world’s largest underground iron ore mine thanks to the installation of its Performer Ceramic hoses. Standing up to harsh grinding and comminution processes at the operation – which IM believes to be the LKAB-owned Kiruna mine, in Sweden – the Performer Ceramic hoses are still performing[…]