Archives: Water management

Rio2 Ltd has announced positive results obtained from the ROM heap leaching trial for its Fenix Gold Project in Chile. The ROM heap leaching trial was conducted by personnel of Fenix Gold Ltda, the Chilean subsidiary of Rio2 Ltd, and overseen by HLC Ingeniería y Construcción, Rio2’s independent metallurgical consultants who were awarded the process[…]

As previously reported in IM, Rio Tinto will deploy the world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at its $2.6 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, but the company has now given much more detail on the project. The new vehicles, primarily used for dust suppression on site, will enhance productivity by[…]

Global water technology company, Xylem has today unveiled Flygt Biboα – a “breakthrough” dewatering pump that it says dramatically reduces energy, wear and tear, and maintenance costs. As the latest addition to Xylem’s portfolio of smart solutions, Flygt Biboα “is set to revolutionise drainage operations and pioneer the next generation of smart pumps by bringing[…]

RPMGlobal is set to boost its environmental, social and governance (ESG) offering with the addition of Australia-headquartered Nitro Solutions Pty Ltd. The two companies have entered into an acquisition agreement whereby RPMGlobal will buy the privately-owned ESG services company. “Nitro is a company that provides the mining industry with a quality-focused ESG service in the[…]

GroundProbe says it has launched the industry’s most advanced doppler radar for reactive geohazard monitoring, the RGR-Velox. RGR-Velox (Reactive Geohazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides and avalanches. It detects, tracks and alarms on moving geohazards in real time, keeping people, assets and communities[…]

Piston diaphragm pumps from ABEL are helping Russia’s ALROSA with its filtration process at one of its diamond mines in the country. In Spring 2021, ABEL received an order for the delivery of six of these piston diaphragm pumps, HM pumps, following an initial HM pump order in 2020. This inaugural pump was delivered to[…]

The installation by Weir Minerals Africa of a Linatex® 808 hard wall rubber hose with wear indicator system is, Weir says, reducing downtime and operating costs at Namdeb’s Sendelingsdrift treatment plant in Namibia. Sendelingsdrift was previously having to change out the incumbent competitor’s rubber hoses every four weeks due to excessively high wear rates. In[…]

FLSmidth has been selected by Ausenco to supply the majority of the key mineral processing technologies for Mantos Copper’s Mantoverde copper mine development project in the Atacama Region of Chile. The range of equipment and technologies includes the primary gyratory crusher, SAG mill, ball mill, traditional flotation cells, column cells, thickeners, cyclones and pumps. The[…]

SHYFTinc says it is introducing RenixUIX™ technology from London, Ontario-based Renix Inc to meet water treatment demands of the global mining industry. SHYFTinc is a value-added reseller of technologies for the global mining industry, and is not new to the role with other products such as ADMMIT SmartModule, and CLEIR-SaniCube. RenixUIX™ will join its green[…]

The first commercial application of the DELKOR BQR flotation cell from TAKRAF Group equipped with the MAXGen mechanism was recently commissioned in India on a project where the technology has been applied to maximise limestone recovery. The flotation cells were ordered by one of India’s leading cement producers, as part of a contract covering the[…]