Archives: Water management

Foran Mining says it has bolstered the design team for its ongoing definitive feasibility study at the McIlvenna Bay project, in Saskatchewan, Canada, providing the company with the technical expertise to execute on its strategy of building the world’s first copper mine designed to be “carbon neutral” from day one of production. The advisors are[…]

AngloGold Ashanti in its just released 2020 Sustainability report says it is rolling out a novel in-situ water remediation project at the Geita mine in Tanzania, working with a local Tanzanian/German joint venture partner that will use a process where naturally occurring bacteria directly remediates sulphate in groundwater. The technology – known as in-situ TSF[…]

SRK Consulting has announced a merger with Dynami Geoconsulting, a Colombian company providing specialised services in geotechnical engineering, foundation design, mine waste management, and hydrology. Dynami was established in 2015 by Felipe Forero and Diego Cobos to provide geotechnical design services for a small gold mine in Antioquia, Colombia. The company now employs 40 people[…]

Mineral Development, LLC (MDL), the only dedicated producer of secondary recovery phosphate rock in the world, has broken ground on its $70 million production facility in Polk County, Florida. The plant is designed to produce 1.2 million tons of high-quality phosphate rock per year in a range of qualities from 29% to 34% P2O5. MDL’s[…]

Two of the leading players in the monitoring industry, Geopraevent and IDS GeoRadar, both Hexagon companies, have introduced SLYX Slow Movement Analysis, a solution that they say goes beyond standard analysis of tailing dams. It incorporates the new Guardian algorithm developed in cooperation with Geopraevent, which “plays an important role for early precursors of potentially[…]

What is holistic mine water management? And why should miners approach water management holistically? Global mine water & slurry pumping and dewatering major Xylem argues that years of on-site experience have shown that smart and efficient management of all water processes across the mine site will enhance the reliability, sustainability and ultimately, productivity of a[…]

Polyus, the world’s fourth-largest gold mining company by production, has announced the publication of its inaugural Water Report, prepared in compliance with the ICMM’s Practical Guide to Consistent Water Reporting. Polyus is the first major company in Russia to publish a report of this kind. Pavel Grachev, Chief Executive Officer of PJSC Polyus, commented: “By[…]

Clean TeQ Water says it has been awarded a contract to design, procure, deliver and install a BIONEX water treatment plant at a coal mine in Inner Mongolia, China. Clean TeQ Managing Director, Sam Riggall, said: “We have persisted for a long time to make inroads into the very large Chinese water treatment market. As[…]

Salt Lake Potash Limited remains on track for first production and sale of sulphate of potash (SOP) in the June quarter after declaring the commencement of process plant commissioning at its Lake Way project in Western Australia. In a project update, the company said first time potassium-rich harvest salts, precipitated from lake aquifer brine, have[…]

Schlumberger New Energy has announced the development of a lithium extraction pilot plant in Clayton Valley, Nevada, through its new venture, NeoLith Energy. The NeoLith Energy sustainable approach uses a differentiated direct lithium extraction (DLE) process to enable the production of high-purity, battery-grade lithium material while reducing the production time from over a year to[…]