Issue 10/2019

Dear Readers, Latin America has always been a synonym for mining, ore extraction and a wealth of natural resources. The article by Dr. Joachim Harder from page 36 analyzes the current conditions of...

Latin America remains in the focus of the international mining industry. Mining companies are financially supported via low tax and royalty rates, as well as favourable mining permit...

Around the world, gold is recovered as a by-product at many sand and gravel quarries. A commonly applied method is the use of launders lined with matting or related principles. In Germany,...

Metso is expanding its crusher wear part offering by launching a new range of OEM crusher liners. The new Metso O-Series is available for selected markets from September 2019. With this launch Metso...

T‌he Weir Group PLC (Weir) has been awarded a £ 100 million order to provide industry-leading energy saving solutions to the Iron Bridge Magnetite Project, a joint venture between Fortescue Metals...

Dr. Gerd Hagenhuth, President of the Federal Mineral Resources Association (MIRO) again had the pleasure of welcoming well over 500 attendees to the 9th Industry Congress of the German Gravel/Sand and...

M‌ATSA is a modern Spanish mining company based in the north of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, a mining district that has been active for more than 2500 years. Weir Minerals has been working with MATSA to...

T‌he Turkish mining company Mikroman, which mines and processes quartz since 1991, set itself the targets of improving product quality and increasing capacity at its three processing plants in Turkey....

F‌luidized-bed technology, which was invented in 1921 for coal gasification, is used today in many chemical and metallurgical processes. Solid particles are swirled up in a reactor by a medium that...

I‌n order to meet the rapidly growing demands on digitization in all areas and to develop Industry 4.0 from a marketing concept to a practical business use concept, TAKRAF has pushed ahead with the...

T‌he redesign and revision of the TRGS 504 - Technical Rules for Hazardous Substances (Exposure of A and E - Dust) requires new occupational exposure limits for all businesses exposed to dust...

A‌ugust Müller GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1894 by August Müller in Rottweil/Germany, and over the last 125 years it has enjoyed continued successful development. Now in the fourth generation, the...