Archives: Water management

Flottweg has opened a new Customer Care Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. The company develops and manufactures high-performance decanter centrifuges, separators, belt presses and plants for solid-liquid separation. The company says process reliability, comprehensive customer support and greater cost efficiency has made it a front runner for mechanical separation technology in a wide range of[…]

Newlox Gold Ventures Corp’s affiliate has reported what it says are “excellent results” from Stage 1 testing of the new Organic Aqua Regia (OAR) gold leaching technology on high-grade gold ore samples. Newlox Research and Development Corp’s final analysis of the results from Stage 1 testing indicated not only is a gold recovery of 94.68%[…]

IDEX Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Abel Pumps LP, and certain of its affiliates (ABEL) from Hillenbrand Inc for a cash consideration of $103.5 million, before closing adjustments. ABEL designs and manufactures highly engineered reciprocating positive displacement pumps for a variety of end markets, including mining, marine, power,[…]

Finland-based Flowrox has strengthened its operations in Central Europe by opening a new subsidiary, Flowrox GmbH, in Ratingen, Düsseldorf, Germany. Jukka Koskela, President & CEO of Flowrox, said the new subsidiary was of strategic importance to the flow control, process automation, environmental and solid-liquid separation technology specialist. “For years we have been operating in Central[…]

CiDRA Minerals Processing has announced that it has engaged Koch Project Solutions, LLC to provide front end engineering and design and project execution management services for the commercial scale-up and global deployment of what CiDRA says is a novel new mineral separation system for sulphide minerals & an alternative to flotation. CiDRA is best known[…]

Easy Hydro, a spinout from Trinity College Dublin, has been awarded a €49,000 Booster grant from the EU consortium EIT RawMaterials to build a pilot energy recovery installation at the Tara Mines underground zinc operation in Navan. As a part of a collaboration between Easy Hydro and the site owner Boliden, a novel type of[…]

SQM announced on December 23 that its board has approved initiating the process to increase the company’s capital by up to $1.1 billion through the issuance of 22.4 million Series B shares of common stock, subject to agreement at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on January 22. It is part of an ambitious $1.9 billion investment[…]

BHP and Vale have confirmed their joint venture Samarco iron ore business has restarted operations in Brazil, more than five years after the failure of the Fundão dam led to its suspension. Samarco’s gradual restart of operations incorporates concentrator 3 at the Germano complex in Minas Gerais and pelletising plant 4 at Ubu in Espírito[…]

FLSmidth has been contracted to deliver an integrated dry-stack tailings solution and a paste fill plant to Hindustan Zinc’s lead-zinc mine in Rajpura Dariba, Rajasthan. The solution will ensure environmental sustainability and significant process water recovery, as well as reduce the footprint of the tailings storage facility, the mining OEM said. The new order, which[…]

Engineers at the Donskoy Ore Mining and Processing Plant of JSC TNC Kazchrome, in Kazakhstan, have successfully completed trials of a first-of-its-kind industrial flotation technology to increase the enrichment of chrome oxide-bearing tailings, Eurasian Resources Group reports. Kazchrome, the world’s largest high-carbon ferrochrome producer by chrome content with a total resource base of over 200[…]