Handling & processing

Keliber has signed a contract with Metso for the delivery of an effluent treatment plant for Keliber’s lithium hydroxide refinery in Kokkola, Finland.

BHP has awarded Metso an order for three high-capacity Nordberg MP Series cone crushers to be installed at its Whaleback mine in Western Australia.

Metso has opened a completely renovated minerals processing laboratory in Pori, Finland, expanding its ore sample and process testing capability.

Fortune Minerals Ltd and Rio Tinto are collaborating to develop technology that will improve recovery of the critical minerals cobalt and bismuth.

Metso has signed a contract for the delivery of a new copper concentrator to be built in Kazakhstan, including grinding, flotation, and dewatering equipment.

Forming part of its plans to increase gold production, TRX Gold Corp. has announced that its new 1000 tpd capacity ball mill has arrived on site at the Buckreef Gold Project, Tanzania.

Aurubis and Metso are to set to work on the decarbonisation of the Hamburg copper smelter, utilising Metso’s hydrogen-ready Outotec Anode Furnaces with hoods and auxiliary equipment.

ABB has launched the Hoisting Young Engineer Exchange Programme to attract the next generation of talented engineering graduates to a career in mine hoisting.

Rio Tinto has awarded Metso an order for 10 HP Series cone crushers to be installed at the Tom Price iron ore mine in Western Australia.

Clean TeQ has been awarded a contract by Heathgate Resources for the design and supply of a Clean-IX U-Column and associated equipment for its uranium processing plant in South Australia.

A Canadian iron ore producer has awarded Metso an order for two powerful Vertimill 4500 grinding mills, to be delivered in 3Q24, for in excess of €10 million.

Komatsu is acquiring certain assets of Matfield Machining to support the growth of its national field service teams, as part of its efforts to enhance its offerings for North American mining customers.

Dave Mueller, Martin Engineering, explains how a sealed conveyor environment improves workplace safety and how skirting can reduce labour costs and overall cost of operation.

Metso has modernised its pilot facility at the Metso Research Center in Pori, Finland, with expanded capabilities for lithium hydroxide and other battery chemicals process testing.

Metso has expanded its manufacturing capacity of mobile track-mounted crushing and screening equipment in Alwar, India, by opening new manufacturing facilities.