Issue 06/2019

Dear Readers, Though we are only in the middle of the year 2019, you should already pencil two important events into your 2020 diary! The European Mineral Processing and Recycling Congress (EMPRC),...

The market environment of junior miner companies is very dynamic and largely dependent on the capital market and on investors. This opens up opportunities but also involves great risks. This...

Mobile processing plants have been used for many decades. With the earliest commercialised units being installed by Metso in 1972. A review of commercialised units is given in the following...

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has opened a new service centre in Brisbane/Australia, on May 14, 2019. The new facility is ideally located to support thyssenkrupp’s customer base on the East Coast...

Metso has been awarded a major contract to supply pyro-processing and comminution equipment for a new lithium hydroxide processing plant at Albemarle Corporation’s Kemerton site near Bunbury in South...

FerroCer 22 is the new cost-effective solution from FLSmidth that provides longer wear life than conventional panels. The unique matrix design of the panel construction combines the strength and...

I‌n 2018, the first European Mineral Processing and Recycling Congress was held in Essen, Germany, and was immediately recognized as a high-quality technical congress due to the diverse program of...

M‌ore than 120 professionals attended the event, which was held in the auditorium of the former Mineral Processing Research Institute at the current site of the Helmholtz Institute of Resource...

S‌teinexpo will again be the meeting place of choice for the European raw materials and building materials industry from 26 to 29 August 2020. The main corner stones for this rather exotic yet...

F‌urther driving advancements in the aggregate and construction industries, FLSmidth‘s Raptor® cone crusher models R250, R350 and R450 bring advanced automation, control and data visualisation to...

I‌n ore processing systems often operate under unfavorable conditions and with correspondingly reduced service life. High temperatures, high loads and contaminants can also affect the operation of...

Spiral fabric belts are the established standard in countless industrial and municipal applications. Wherever seamless belts are an indispensible component in dewatering, transport or drying...

W‌ater is the lifeblood of our planet, and a resource essential to minerals processing which must be used conservatively. Mine operators must be conscious of their water use, as well as innovative in...

C‌ompanies in the fields of demolition, construction site, material handling, recycling, quarrying, mines, steelworks and cement plants often struggle with the problem of heavy dust generation....

I‌n flotation methods, e.g. for the recovery of ores, fine materials accumulate with a mineral content that for decades was too low for further beneficiation to be performed in a cost-effective...

S‌iemens is extending the Simine portfolio for high-pressure grinding mills (HPGR) to include a new controller. Plug-and-play functionality makes the load share controller available for immediate use....

W‌ith the Cat R1700 underground LHD loader, Caterpillar is presenting a completely redesigned machine that has already proven its high productivity and efficiency in extended field trials and...

V‌ariopactor is a newly developed reversible impact crusher from thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions. The name speaks for itself: With its modular design, the variopactor can be adapted to a wide...

I‌n times of environmental scandals, Diesel deception and fine dust pollution in city centers, plant manufacturers and operators of bulk material silos wonder if, in the near future, even the handling...

G‌iven the number of conveyor-related accidents that occur during routine maintenance and cleanup, every bulk material handler has a vested interest in technologies to help reduce hazards and prevent...