Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 12/2013

New technologies for strategic elements

Rare Earth Elements in Latin America

Brazil According to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Brazil is the country with the largest reserves of rare earth elements in the world, having approximately 3500 million tons...

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Issue 12/2013

Symposium on Raw Materials

Symposium on “Raw Material Efficiency and Raw Material Innovations”, New Museum Nuremberg (February 5/6, 2014)

Sustained handling of scarce natural resources is a key goal for the future. Lower availability and rising raw material prices call for significant innovations in raw materials and make the necessary...

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Issue 12/2013

Wear-protected rotary valve for dry lignite

Coperion GmbH supplied and successfully commissioned a wear-protected rotary valve for the RWE Power AG Ville/Berrenrath coal refinery. The rotary valve type ZXQ with a diameter of 600 mm, feeds dry...

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Issue 12/2013

Reduced grinding time

Effect of microwave heat treatment on the grindability of zircon in a planetary ball mill

1 Introduction Zircon is used in industry in a wide range of applications, as zircon sand directly from the mine; as a milled product in the form of zircon flour (95 % micronized to < 45 µm...

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Issue 12/2013

Separating impurities from quartz

Based in Upper Austria, the Feichtinger KG has been extracting quartz since 1972. With currently 18 employees, the company supplies around 30 000 t quartz per year to RW silicium GmbH. To meet...

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Issue 12/2013

The right mesh for screening processes

To ensure safe and efficient screening processes, material, aperture shape, weave, and screening machine must be optimally adapted to the products to be screened. The Haver & Boecker product range...

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Issue 12/2013

X-ray ore sorting at Wolfram Camp Mine/Australia

W olfram Camp (Australia) was first discovered in 1894, and has operated intermittently under a number of owners producing Tungsten, Molybdenum and Bismuth Concentrates. In 2008, Open Cut Mining and...

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Issue 12/2013

Wider product offering

At the beginning of October 2013 Sandvik Construction presented its new mobile crushers and screens to customers and distributors from all Sandvik’s sales areas worldwide. A visit to Sandvik’s...

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High-quality aggregates for road building around Asia and Africa

Thanks to a unique combination of supreme quality and affordable pricing, Metso's Indian-manufactured Nordwheeler portable plants have proven a global hit. Metso's crushing and screening technology...

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Issue 11/2013

“We put the world into motion”

Getriebebau NORD is one of the leading suppliers of drive technology worldwide – for mechanical and electronic solutions. Back in 1965 the family company started up in Bargteheide, Northern Germany,...

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