Archives: Water management

Élisabeth Brière, the Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, has announced an investment of over C$4.5 million for E2Metrix Inc to help mining operations recycle wastewater and operate in a more sustainable[…]

Antofagasta Minerals is preparing to submit an investment proposal for its Los Pelambres mine in Chile that could see it stop using water from the Choapa River and nearby wells, and to use mainly seawater from 2025. In this way, MLP will be able to guarantee the availability of water for its operations and advance[…]

The latest economic studies on Ivanhoe Mines and Zijin Mining Group’s majority-owned Kamoa-Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of Congo have indicated the asset could become the world’s second largest copper mining complex. First production at Kamoa-Kakula is less than a year away, but the project partners have continued with a series of economic studies[…]

Water requirements for intensive applications such as hard-rock mining and oil sands processing have historically been supplemented by local water sources. Today, these applications face new challenges as the focus shifts to how operations can minimise their environmental footprint but continue to improve productivity while also complying with new regulations. This global shift in focus[…]

Using a novel integrated design approach, Weir Minerals engineers developed the Warman® WRT® impeller and throatbush combination – delivering significant wear life improvements in Warman® AH® pumps. It began with an extensive research and development programme by Weir Minerals engineers, aimed at better understanding the wear characteristics at the inlet and outlet of centrifugal slurry[…]

IDE Technologies, a leader in desalination and water treatment, has been awarded a contract to construct a desalination plant by Aguas Pacífico SpA. The EPC contract for the Aconcagua desalination plant includes the engineering, supply, construction, start-up and commissioning of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant with a nominal production capacity of 86,400 cu.m/d located[…]

Tsurumi has released a new heavy-duty slurry pump that, it says, almost doubles the output of its predecessor pumps. Coming with a water output of up to 9,000 litres/min, the new GPN 837 is the top model in the series, topping the GPN 622. “However, ‘water’ can hardly be taken literally: declared as a “heavy[…]

Clean TeQ Holdings Limited has formally handed over a Continuous Ion Exchange Desalination (DESALX®) plant to Kirkland Lake Gold’s Fosterville gold mine in Victoria, Australia. Clean TeQ says it was engaged to design, supply and commission a two million litre-per-day Clean TeQ DESALX mine water treatment plant, with the plant designed to deliver a sustainable[…]

SciDev has received a trial purchase order for its MaxiFlox chemistry from BHP’s Olympic Dam polymetallic mine, in South Australia, which will see the company transfer its waste processing expertise to the production side, Lewis Utting says. Australia’s largest copper operation, Olympic Dam operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal. The SciDev[…]

CDE has helped SOMEVAM, a subsidiary of the Sebri group, diversify into a new market by providing a tailor-made wet processing solution that eliminated contaminants and increased the quality of its end products. SOMEVAM has operated sand quarries in Oueslatia, Tunisia, serving the national construction market since 2001. Following testing of material, SOMEVAM saw the[…]