Handling & processing

Martin Engineering has announced the availability of two rugged secondary conveyor belt cleaners, both engineered for fast and easy maintenance.

Rio Tinto has delivered first ore from the Gudai-Darri iron ore mine, as the company brings online its first greenfield mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia, in more than a decade.

Cornish Lithium is using Watson-Marlow pumps to trial the extraction of lithium from its test site.

Bradda Head Lithium Ltd has commenced the second stage of metallurgical testwork at Basin East (BE), working towards producing a final battery quality lithium product.

Metso Outotec has signed a contract to deliver key process technology to Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Co.’s MOF3 Copper-Gold-Molybdenum concentrator complex in Uzbekistan.

Rainbow Rare Earths has entered into an MOU with a diversified chemicals group, based in South Africa, for the extraction of rare earth elements from a nitro phosphate process stream.

A definitive agreement has been signed under which Gold Fields will acquire all of outstanding common shares of Yamana Gold, creating a top-four global gold major.

Eriez Canada, home to Eriez’ worldwide flotation business, was recently granted ISO 9001:2015 certification for all internal processes.

Metso Outotec and Malvern Panalytical have signed a collaboration agreement to provide sensor-based bulk ore sorting solutions for the mining industry.

Rio Tinto has started producing tellurium at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, USA.

Glencore and Li-Cycle have announced an innovative partnership to advance circularity in battery raw material supply chains.

Lithium processing company Green Lithium has agreed terms with Trafigura that will support the development of one of the first centralised commercial lithium refineries in Europe.

Akobo Minerals has reached an agreement with Solo Resources for the delivery of a processing plant for the production of gold at the Segele Mine.

Vale has signed a long-term contract with Tesla Inc. to supply Class 1 nickel to the US from its operations in Canada.

Omniflex and AMOG Consulting have received new funding from METS Ignited as part of an AUS$2.5 million funding initiative for its IIoT detection instrumentation.