Archives: Water management

LCS Cable Cranes GmbH has been commissioned to find a solution for maintenance and monitoring activities on tailings ponds or a conventional dam in mining, devising its QXcrane system in the process. For these activities, entering the work area is life-threatening due to dam breaches or earth movements. Therefore, in order to carry out these[…]

Draslovka a.s., a specialty chemicals company, has executed a user license with Bayan Airag Exploration LLC in Mongolia for the world’s first application of its proprietary glycine gold leaching process, GlyCat™, in a commercial heap leaching application. Application of the technology has commenced to extract gold from ores mined from its Golden Hills and Limestone[…]

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has awarded Darkstone with a SAR105 million ($28 million) construction contract for the second phase of its Mansourah-Massarah gold mine tailings storage facility (TSF) construction project. Darkstone Arabia Ltd, a company engaged in industrial mechanical and electrical maintenance, mechanical engineering, civil, construction and MEP works, was awarded the procurement and[…]

IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently had the chance to visit Anglo American’s Los Bronces Integrated Remote Operations Centre in downtown Santiago, meeting with Cristobal Mimica, Autonomy Project Manager, Los Bronces along with Victoria Madrid-Salvador, IROC Superintendent and Andres Reyes, IROC Specialist. The IROC was opened in April 2021 and takes up half of the[…]

Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Sykes Group Pty Ltd from Seven Group Holdings Ltd (SGH), a company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Sykes is a global manufacturer of dewatering pumps, predominantly used for transferring water with solids and abrasive nature within the mining and wastewater sectors. It is headquartered in Newcastle, New South[…]

Aether has announced a $49 million Series A funding round to, it says, power the next industrial revolution by helping extract rare metals and create new materials, leading to a more resource-efficient and sustainable future. The funding will be used to scale its platform and grow the company’s engineering, machine learning and hardware teams, Aether[…]

Feeding water into a mine, the dewatering of groundwater out of it, and the recycling of used water all depend upon a network of reliable piping systems able to withstand mining’s extreme environments, whether the mine is underground or on the surface. In remote areas such as Alaska or northwest Canada, pipes carrying water, slurry,[…]

Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been selected by First Mining Gold (FMG) to lead the environmental baseline program for FMG’s proposed Duparquet Gold Project in the heart of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue greenstone belt in Duparquet, Quebec. The firm says it has assembled a highly qualified team that is experienced in environmental[…]

In its half yearly financial report for the six months ended June 30, 2023, copper mining major Antofagasta PLC gave some detailed insight into expansion plans for two of its flagship Chilean copper mines – Los Pelambres and Centinela. The Los Pelambres Expansion project is divided into two phases with Phase 1 expected to be[…]

Caterpillar has released a new water truck that, it says, provides an integrated solution to help reduce haul road dust by solving overwatering and underwatering issues. The new Cat® 777 (05) Water Solutions Truck is built on the Cat 777E truck platform, proven at mine, quarry and construction sites globally. An innovative truck that uses[…]