IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 04/2011

Productivity increase in the Aitik copper mine

High efficiency is a matter of survival for the Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden. The proportion of metal in the earth’s surface here is so low – less than 0.3 %, that it can only be extracted...

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Issue 11/2015

Productivity increase with high-tech screening technology

Bogaevsky Karyer is a relatively new aggregates production and quarrying company with operations located not far from Oreshki village in the Ruzsky District of Moscow Province. Centered on the...

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Issue 04 /2017

Prognostics tool for maintenance employed in copper mine

For the extraction of natural resources all over the world, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) operates different types of equipment. For management of the equipment at a copper mine in...

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Issue 07-08/2010

Program-Controlled Grinding and Screening Plant

A common problem in processing high-value bulk materials is that both a large size reduction ratio and a de-fined final grain size distribution within narrow grain size limits are often required. Dust...

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Issue 01-02/2011

Progress

Improving the profitability of copper ore processing

1 Increasing grinding efficiency with the improved Vertimill Having acquired the licence in 1979, Metso (then Koppers) has exclusively supplied the Vertimill and steadily further developed it....

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Issue 11/2012

Progress tracking from the engineering phase up to the construction site

From the engineering and manufacturing phase up to the final construction site, the entire machinery, e.g. roller mills for raw material or cement plants, passes through numerous stations. This is why...

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Issue 07-08/2010

Promag 55S measures up to tough conditions

K+S KALI GmbH operates six mines, which produce the two raw materials, potash and magnesium. Since the raw salt obtained from the mine only contains 15 to 35 % of usable material, K+S uses a range of...

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Promotion in RMI’s China office

High pressure reciprocating pump specialist RMI Pressure Systems has promoted Sabrina Zhang to the role of Director for Aftermarket Sales, Services and RMI Operations in China. Zhang has been with...

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Issue 12/2017

Properties

Rock powder as aggregate for hydraulic binders

In the extraction and production of high-grade aggregates, the formation of finely dispersed particles is unavoidable. Up until now, these rock powder were only partly or not utilized at all. A research project sponsered by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and supported by ...

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Issue 10-2014

Properties and system parameters

Quantitative characterization of rocks to predict the influence of the rock on relevant product properties and system parameters Part 2: Selected examples

1 The correlation between selected rock characteristics and relevant product properties The discoveries discussed are based on correlations taken from the technical literature, on test results...

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