Handling & processing

Operators are increasingly looking to restart past producing mines with new technologies, improved ESG strategies, and better capital to take advantage of commodity price increases.

Continental has acquired the conveyor belt systems and services specialist NorrVulk AB, based in Gällivare, Sweden.

Compass Minerals has announced the signing of an MOU to supply LG Energy Solution with a battery-grade lithium product from its lithium brine development project in Utah.

Metso Outotec has been awarded a contract for the delivery of sustainable crushing, screening, and grinding technologies to a greenfield iron ore project in South America.

Piedmont Lithium has announced that the board of directors of Sayona Quebec has authorised the restart of production at its North American Lithium (NAL) project.

Brazilian Nickel Plc has announced that continuous nickel production has begun at the Piauí Nickel Project (PNP).

Jervois Global Ltd has provided an update on progress at its Idaho Cobalt Operations in Idaho, USA.

Metso Outotec has been awarded a contract for the delivery of key crushing and grinding equipment to Artemis Gold’s Blackwater Gold project in Central British Columbia, Canada.

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.