Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 01-02/2014

New addition to the team

With effect from 1st of November 2013 allmineral has strengthened its management team with Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Hees (Fig.). He is a proven specialist in raw materials processing, particularly iron ore....

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Issue 01-02/2014

Equipped for the next years

Ártándi Kavicsbánya Kft, a company based in Artánd/Hungary, has been running a sand and gravel extraction operation directly on the Romanian border since 1972. After the sand and gravel works had...

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Issue 01-02/2014

Comminution and classification processes – current situation, trends and developments

From 9 to 12 September 2013, around 200 experts from industry, science and research met in Braunschweig/Ger-many, for the 13th European Symposium on Comminution and Classification (Fig. 2). This...

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Issue 01-02/2014

Extraction rate tripled

By using the D30 Rockwheel cutting unit attached to a 36-t excavator the Saarland-based company Kies-Hector “natural concrete” recently could improve the output of sand and gravel two- to...

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Issue 01-02/2014

“Because the substance is decisive”

The 5th ForumMIRO took place at the Eurogress in Aachen from 6 to 8 November 2013. This time the organizing Federal Association of Mineral Raw Materials (MIRO) welcomed more than 450 participants...

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Issue 01-02/2014

World reserves

Tantalum in Latin America

Bolivia Although tantalum deposits were first identified in surface studies made in 1996, it was the latest increase in international demand and the increase in price to 60 000 US$/t that recently...

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Issue 01-02/2014

New products for dry screening

Besides its established products for wet screening such as the Stack Sizer®, which can consist of up to five screen decks stacked on top of each other to make up a compact screening unit with high...

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Issue 01-02/2014

High-strength and easy-to-machine

New cast materials made of spheroidal graphite

“Thanks to intense collective work in materials development and standardization, a new family of iron cast materials with outstanding usage properties has recently been launched,” says Dipl.-Ing....

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Issue 01-02/2014

Academic course: From bulk solids to the silo

Due to the great demand, the academic course “From bulk solids to the silo – characterization and storage of powders and bulk solids” headed by Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schulze will take place already...

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Issue 01-02/2014

Comminution 2014 – Technical Programme now online

The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ’14), organised by MEI in consultation with Prof. Malcolm Powell (JKMRC) and Dr. Aubrey Mainza (Centre for Minerals Research, UCT), is on...

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