Archives: Water management

Weir Group continued to benefit from relatively high commodity prices, tightness in physical inventories of metals and minerals, and strong end market demand for commodities in the March quarter, registering a 22% boost in original equipment order growth in the three-month period. The company said brownfield activity and sustainability projects were behind this leap in[…]

Today, the need for extraction and refinement of copper and other transition materials is essential to world development, as we navigate a transition to more sustainable energy technologies, Saleem Varghese and Carola Sepulveda* write. But as its importance has grown, copper ore grades have decreased at a rate of approximately 25% over the last decade[…]

Ore sorting has been shown to provide both economic and environmental benefits, but many mines are not yet fully utilising this technology, according to HPY Technology. Yet, the company’s ore sorting machines are providing a breakthrough solution for Fankou, one of Asia’s largest lead and zinc mines, resulting in an annual revenue increase of around[…]

Gold Fields Limited has announced a new consortium of eight global mining companies has launched a multi-year initiative to develop and implement new technological applications for managing tailings. The GeoStable Tailings Consortium (GSTC) comprises Antamina, Barrick, BHP, Freeport-McMoRan, Gold Fields, Newmont, Teck and Vale, with external expert support provided by Dr G Ward Wilson of[…]

Foraco International SA, a global provider of mineral and water drilling services, says it has been awarded a major contract with Rio Tinto Iron Ore. This contract is for water-related drilling services in the Pilbara region, involving both monitoring wells, dewatering wells and vibrating wire piezometers digital networks installation, mostly with flooded reverse circulation rigs.[…]

SNC-Lavalin, a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world, has been contracted to complete the environmental and social impact assessment, for the Sayona Moblan Lithium Project in Quebec. Additionally on the project, SNC-Lavalin will work with InnovExplo and Primero on completing multiple components of the mine’s prefeasibility and feasibility[…]

Metso Outotec says it has been awarded an order to deliver concentrate dewatering filters for JISCO’s modernisation project in Gansu province, China. JISCO, ie Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., is the largest producer of carbon steel and stainless steel in northwest China. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery consists of the engineering, manufacturing and[…]

Following its successful expansion of the sewage treatment plant at the Lucara Diamond’s Karowe mine in Botswana, WEC Projects has secured further orders from the client, it says. This time, it has been engaged for the design and construction of a sedimentation trap, tanker filling station and associated infrastructure, including storm water drains and fencing.[…]

Thickeners have various uses in aggregate and mineral applications. They can be used in the production of a material, such as in the concentration of slurries for minerals extraction or in the creation of a solids-free liquid to extract dissolved metals. They can also be used on the waste handling side of the process to[…]

Atlas Copco Power and Flow has launched a next-generation electric submersible dewatering pump, the WEDA D95, incorporating what it says is state-of-the-art Wear Deflector Technology (WDT). The robust and reliable pump delivers best-in-class performance over a longer lifetime than comparable pumps in heavily-abrasive environments such as mining, tunnelling and construction, and enables operators to improve[…]