Tag: mining

Heat exchanger failure

Production at WMC Resources' Olympic Dam operations in South Australia was interrupted following the failure of a heat exchanger in the sulphuric acid plant.

Skunk to probe specialty steels

Skunk Work Technologies Inc. has contracted a drilling program for its joint-venture property in the Columbia Valley of British Columbia.

Metso to supply Chilean copper mine

Metso Minerals will supply a fluid bed dryer as a turn-key project to Codelco, the Chilean national mining company.

Titanium feasibility study

Australia’s Mineral Commodities has put potential revenue that could be generated from a proposed titanium mining project in South Africa’s Eastern Cape at about USD 77 million a year.

Valve range includes specialised designs

New from UK Process Valves is the Fluval API600 range of gate, globe and check valves.

Titanium for Goro project

Allegheny Technologies (ATI) will supply all wrought product forms made of the specialised Titanium Grade 28 to be used in Inco Ltd's Goro mining project pressure acid leaching heat exchanger system.

New cobalt refinery in Ontario

Canmine Resources Corporation is currently commissioning a new cobalt refinery located in Cobalt, Ontario.

New Caledonian contract for Technip-Coflexip

Goro Nickel, of the Canadian INCO-group, has signed a contract with Technip-Coflexip in association with the American group Bechtel for the engineering, project management, procurement of equipment and materials and construction of a nickel-cobalt production complex at Goro, in the south of New Caledonia.

Stargate-O-Port® for flow control

Stainless Valve Company is the producer of specialty through-port valves for the chemical, pulp and mining industry.

New Caledonian nickel-cobalt project

Inco Ltd has announced that its 85% owned subsidiary, Compagnie des Mines de Xere (CMX), has reached an agreement in principle for a joint venture formed by Bechtel Overseas Corporation of the USA and Technip France SA of France to act as the prime contractor for construction of the Goro nickel-cobalt project in the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia.