Archives: Water management

Gravitas Minerals is leveraging its Optima Concentrator™ gravity separator to recover iron ore from tailings facilities and provide ‘value from waste’. Using hindered settling, fluidised bed and autogenous dense medium separation technology to separate iron ore from gangue based on density, the Optima Concentrator has high throughput capacities of up to 40 t/h sq.m. This,[…]

Lithium leader, SQM has commenced a third-party audit against what it says is the world’s most rigorous standard of best practices in environmental and social responsibility at industrial scale mines: the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)’s Standard for Responsible Mining. According to a United Nations Environment Programme report published in 2020, IRMA “is the[…]

Lycopodium has announced that it has been awarded an Engineering and Construction Management Services contract from PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (PT AMNT) for the Batu Hijau Process Plant Expansion Project in Indonesia. Batu Hijau is an open-pit copper-gold mine located on the island of Sumbawa in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, about 1,500[…]

Native American communities in eastern Arizona, USA, look set to benefit from a new source of clean drinking water through a project sponsored by Resolution Copper and Stantec to deploy innovative renewable “hydropanel” technology, the mine developer says. Resolution Copper and Stantec are partnering with White Mountain Apache community members to provide 64 hydropanels on[…]

Barrick’s North Mara gold mine has announced that it has achieved its commitment to bring the operation’s tailings storage facility’s (TSF) pond back within its permitted design capacity by the end of this year. Barrick made the commitment to the Tanzanian government when it took over control of the mine in September 2019, at a[…]

Rio Tinto has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Rincon lithium project in Argentina, an undeveloped brine project that, Rio says, has the potential to have one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry and can help deliver on the company’s commitment to decarbonise its portfolio. The agreement has been signed with[…]

Haver & Boecker Niagara has engineered a new, elliptical motion Niagara XL-Class vibrating screen for a Brazilian iron ore producer that, it says, is ideal for applications challenged with high moisture content. The new technology can handle capacities up to 3,500 t/h while minimising water usage, with the XL-Class running in an elliptical motion of[…]

Bentley Systems Inc’s Seequent business unit has acquired Denver-based Advanced Resources and Risk Technology LLC, a developer of geostatistical software applications. The acquisition, Bentley says, provides Seequent with state-of-the-art geostatistics algorithms, technology and IP for complex geospatial problem solving, complementing its geological modeling solutions and workflows, to help solve earth, environmental and resources challenges. AR2Tech[…]

Sulzer has launched an upgrade of the VA vertical cantilever sump pump, with the update focused on developing a rigid and reliable cantilever sump pump that contains the company’s most efficient hydraulics. The VA pump range has been designed for pumping all kinds of clean and contaminated liquids and slurry. The hydraulic coverage of the[…]

SNC-Lavalin has appointed Dr Trevor Sparks as Global Vice-President of Tailings and Water Management for the company’s Mining & Metallurgy business. Trevor is based in the UK and will lead the expansion of the company’s tailings and water management global business in the mining industry, working in collaboration with teams around the world. Cesar Inostroza,[…]