Handling & processing

Lundin Mining Corporation has announced that a return to full production rates has been achieved at the Chapada mine in Brazil.

Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. (DST) has announced that it has entered into a technology transfer licensing agreement with Newmont Corp. for the utilisation of DST’s cyanide free gold extraction.

Metso Outotec has been awarded a landmark contract by PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel to modernise one of the company’s two existing smelting lines at their Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant in Norilsk, Russia.

Mexus Gold US has announced that the sale of gold from production at its Santa Elena mine located near Caborca, Mexico, is expected to occur by 31 December 2020.

Orica has been chosen as the commercialisation partner for the integrated extraction simulator, designed to reduce the use of energy and water in mining.

Orica and Epiroc Rock Drills AB have successfully co-developed a prototype of the world’s first semi-automated explosives delivery system.

The annual EIT RawMaterials KAVA Upscaling Projects grant has been awarded to the REFLUX Flotation Cell (RFC).

K+S Minerals and Agriculture has chosen TOMRA Sorting Mining as the solution for the replacement of the existing sorting system at its rock salt mine in Grasleben, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Mexus Gold US has announced that the new leach pad at its Santa Elena mine in Caborca, Mexico, is expected to be completed by 15 November 2020.

Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd on the delivery of new environmentally sound technology for Zenith’s (Zhong Tian) iron ore pelletising plant to be built in Nantong, China.

MAJOR has appointed Aggregate Machinery Specialist as its newest aggregate and mining screen media authorised dealer.

Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production Association JSC, part of Eurasian Resources Group, has completed the first stage of pilot tests of the MGS-2.0 magnetic gravity separator.

Altus Strategies has announced results from metallurgical testwork on oxide and sulfide samples from the company's 100 % owned Diba gold project in western Mali.

Metso Outotec and Boliden have signed an extension of their service contract for Boliden’s Aitik copper mine in Gällivare, Northern Sweden.

A consortium of world leaders, funded by METS Ignited, has come together to commercialise a ‘one-stop-shop’ for collecting and analysing gold plant data in real-time.