Archives: Water management

Following years of detailed test work in the South Africa ferrochrome sector, Multotec says it has successfully developed and proven a spiral concentrator that eliminates beaching and enhances recoveries in the 1-3 mm fractions of high-density material. Significantly, when compared with traditional spirals, the new spiral has shown extraordinarily higher metal recoveries, even for minus[…]

The University of Minnesota Duluth’s Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) is helping introduce high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) technology to Minnesota’s Iron Range. Working with Weir Minerals, NRRI acquired an industrial-scale Enduron® HPGR to carry out testing on a variety of ores with this process. This is the only large scale HPGR dedicated to research[…]

South Africa-based Integrated Pump Rental has recently responded to an urgent request for a dewatering pump at an East Africa mine suffering from major flooding following unseasonable high rainfall in the region. “If not dealt with promptly, flooding in a mine environment will not only impede productivity but in some cases, lead to unsafe working[…]

The International Council on Mining and Metals’ (ICMM) latest safety data report from its member companies showed that there were 287 occupational fatalities in 2019, a marked increase from the 50 recorded in 2018 and 51 recorded in 2017. The occupational fatality rate (calculated per one million hours worked) shows an increase from 0.022 in[…]

Having made a name for itself in South America innovating on projects for Codelco, Antofagasta Minerals, Anglo American, BHP, and many others, RCT says it is now delivering solutions for miners in the region in tailings and waste management situations. The Australia-based company is working with various customers in the region to safeguard their operations[…]

AGQ Labs has won a contract to carry out environmental sample analysis services for Minera Chinalco Perú SA over the next three years. Minera Chinalco owns the Toromocho open-pit copper mine in the Morococha district of Peru, situated 4,500 m above sea level. Toromocho will produce 1 Mt/y of copper concentrate, 10,000 t/y of molybdenum[…]

During its ‘Concentrating the Mine’ workshops held in 2015 and 2016, Anglo American first identified coarse particle recovery (CPR) as a key enabling technology. CPR is one of many significant breakthrough technology initiatives that has the potential to increase throughput and productivity, while simultaneously reducing environmental footprint, through rejection of coarse gangue (near-worthless waste material),[…]

The University of Queensland’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) and UQ Holding’s technology transfer company, JKTech, have decided to integrate their activities under one management structure. JKMRC is one of six research centres within the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), and its Director Professor, Neville Plint, has been appointed Managing Director of[…]

Tetra Tech is a leader in developing solutions to support the operational safety of geotechnical and natural structures. On a global scale, tailings dam breaches are increasing in frequency, causing significant damage to the environment and even loss of life. To mitigate these catastrophic events in the future, Tetra Tech says it has developed microseismic[…]

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has announced the launch of Tailings Insight, a new Internet of Things (IoT) solution for monitoring mining tailings storage facilities (TSFs). The solution builds on and upgrades its award-winning Tailings Dam Monitoring Solution and is available in two new propositions: Tailings Insight – Cloud and Tailings[…]