Mining news: flotation
By Greg Fenrick, June 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am -
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Kazzinc New Metallurgy Project Awarded for Technical Excellence
Brisbane, Australia, June, 23, 2008: The 2008 annual PACE Zenith Awards were announced in Sydney last week. MIPAC was honoured to receive the Award for Technical Excellence in the Metal Products Category for its contribution to the Kazzinc New Metallurgy Project in Kazakhstan.
MIPAC’s role was to design and [...]
By Greg Fenrick, June 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am -
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Intellection has expanded its support for international minerals industry research, becoming an industry sponsor of AMIRA International’s P9 project for the Optimisation of Mineral Processes by Modelling and Simulation. AMIRA International is an independent association of minerals companies which develops, brokers and facilitates collaborative research projects. It currently has around 50 active R&D projects in [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 23rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm -
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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(MARKET WIRE)–May 21, 2008 — Adex Mining Inc. (”Adex” or the “Company”) (CDNX:ADE.V - News) is pleased to announce the award of an ore mineralogy assessment contract for the development of tungsten, molybdenum, tin and indium at the Mount Pleasant Mine Property (the “Property”) located in southwestern New Brunswick.
Adex awarded the contract to SGS [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 am -
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Mikhailovsky GOK launched the unique product for Russian market - hematite concentrate.
The new technology is based on the flotation plant usage and suggests processing of the current output tails. Due to it the amount of impound tails will be reduced and production will increase without additional iron ore extraction.
This technology is MGOK specialists’ know-how worked [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 21st, 2008 at 6:48 am -
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Vancouver, British Columbia: Robert Pease, President and Chief Executive Officer of Terrane Metals Corp. (”Terrane” or the “Company”) (TRX: TSX-V) is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the Feasibility Study Report (the “Report”) for its 100%-owned Mt. Milligan Copper-Gold Project (”Project”) in British Columbia, Canada and authorized management to proceed with [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm -
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The directors of Excellon Resources of Toronto have approved construction of a 350-t/d lead-zinc flotation mill at the company’s Platosa test mine near Bermejillo. Mill construction should begin in the latter half of this year and commissioning begin in Q1 2009. The project has a capital cost of $10 million…more at MEI [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 15th, 2008 at 5:09 pm -
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The directors of Excellon Resources of Toronto have approved construction of a 350-t/d lead-zinc flotation mill at the company’s Platosa test mine near Bermejillo. Mill construction should begin in the latter half of this year and commissioning begin in Q1 2009. The project has a capital cost of $10 million…more at MEI [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 6th, 2008 at 6:34 am -
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MIPAC, a respected world leader in process control, is working with Xstrata to improve operations in its Mt Isa Zinc Concentrator. MIPAC will help Xstrata to automate and optimize key processes in the plant with the provision of an advanced control solution that integrates with existing systems and leads to a [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 am -
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West Paterson, NJ – May 1, 2008 - Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE: CYT) announced today the implementation of a global price adjustment of 7 to 15 percent on all mining products used in mineral processing and solvent extraction including AEROFROTH® frothing agents, OREPREP® frothing agents, AEROPHINE® promoter, SUPERFLOC® flocculants, AERODRI® surfactant, AEROFLOAT® flotation reagents, AERO® [...]
By Greg Fenrick, April 30th, 2008 at 9:08 am -
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International Mining reports that a MIPAC implementation is to improve throughput and recovery rates for the zinc concentrator in Mt Isa. The solution uses CSense(r) technology.
MIPAC, a provider of process control technologies, is working with Xstrata to improve operations in its Mt Isa concentrator. MIPAC will help Xstrata to automate and optimise key processes [...]
By Greg Fenrick, April 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am -
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Metso Minerals will supply a complete processing system for copper ore beneficiation to Zinkgruvan Mining AB for its mine in Southern Sweden. The delivery will be completed during the last quarter of 2009. The value of the order is approximately EUR 16 million.
Metso’s delivery covers the primary and secondary crushing stages, [...]
By Greg Fenrick, April 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm -
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The section on processing silver ores also had to go. This noted that Hochschild’s Ares mine is expanding the size of its plant and has ordered five additional Gekko Systems’ InLine Leach Reactors (ILR5000 Batch Manual) to add to its two existing ILR5000s. Once installed, Ares will boast the largest intensive leach application worldwide. [...]