Archives: Water management

CIMIC Group company CPB Contractors has been selected by Cadia Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited, to deliver enabling works for the Cadia Tailings Storage Facility Recommissioning Project, in New South Wales, Australia. The project, to be delivered in an alliance partnership with Cadia Holdings, will support the operation of the Cadia[…]

Inspired by UN Sustainable Development Goal 6, which is to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, AECI Water says it is focused on taking the mining industry off the potable grid. This directly links to this year’s Mining Indaba theme of ‘Stability, Security and Supply.’ “2.2 billion litres of water[…]

Among the new applications, technologies and data analytics Freeport-McMoRan is advancing as part of a plan to improve copper recovery from its leach processes in North and South America is Jetti Resources’ patented catalytic technology, the company has confirmed to IM. In its December quarter and 2022 annual results, released late last month, the leading[…]

ASTERRA says its EarthWorks solution has been successfully used as a tailings dam monitoring tool by a leading mining company in the Nordic region of Europe. The mining company’s goal is to create an accident-free and healthy operation characterised by safety and wellbeing. It is, therefore, constantly implementing new technologies and innovations to ensure sustainable[…]

Weir Minerals, manufacturer of the Warman® slurry pump, has released the latest edition of its Warman Slurry Pumping Handbook, with the sixth edition, the company says, featuring detailed engineering data required for most slurry pumping applications. Drawing on decades of Weir Minerals’ in-house expertise in engineering and slurry pumping technology, the new handbook has updated[…]

Aurubis, the world’s leading supplier of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers in the world, and Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, have signed a letter of intent. In support of the Chilean-German Raw Materials Partnership, which both governments signed in La Moneda, the agreement includes cooperation and the exchange of ideas[…]

Tailings management and the safe construction and operation of tailings dams are challenges that require qualified Engineers of Record (EORs). Identifying, developing, and maintaining qualified EORs requires commitment, innovation, and solutions from the entire mining industry. The EOR is at the forefront of successful tailing management. This critical role is now expected as part of[…]

Draslovka Holding a.s., a Czech family-owned global leader in cyanide-based specialty chemicals, says its glycine leaching technology has been selected to be part of the OZ Minerals’ Think & Act Differently (TAD) incubator and Waste-to-Value Challenge. The latter challenge, announced back in December, sees Rio Tinto and Boliden working in collaboration with OZ Minerals to[…]

Excelsior Mining says it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Nuton LLC, a Rio Tinto venture, to evaluate the use of its Nuton copper heap leaching technologies at Excelsior’s Johnson Camp mine in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Rio Tinto has developed the Nuton technologies, an extensive portfolio of advanced copper heap leaching technologies targeted[…]

Synspective, a Tokyo-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and solutions provider, and Insight Terra, a London-based start-up providing a cloud based environmental and infrastructure risk management platform and solutions, have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver a new space-enabled data and monitoring solution for the mining industry. The solution uses satellites and earth[…]