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FILTER: Cost effective filtration from industry leader Outotec
HELSINKI – For standard filtration applications, when a short delivery time and safe, reliable operation are top of the priority list, the new Outotec FP-S filter press fits the bill perfectly. It offers efficient solid-liquid separation, is available in a wide…
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CRUSHING & SCREENING: Metso grows aggregates business with the acquisition of McCloskey
FINLAND – Metso has signed an agreement to acquire McCloskey International, a Canadian mobile crushing and screening equipment manufacturer, to expand Metso’s offering in the aggregates industry globally and to strengthen the customer reach especially to general contractor customers. The…
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GRAPHITE: ZEN partners with Canadian university to produce low cost graphene
ONTARIO – ZEN Graphene Solutions announced that it has signed an initial agreement to in-license certain intellectual properties from a Canadian university that, when combined with ZEN’s graphite from the Albany mine, produces low cost, environmentally friendly graphene. The company said…
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COBALT: First Cobalt refinery output could be doubled
ONTARIO – Ausenco Engineering Canada has delivered a study of the refinery in Cobalt to Toronto-based First Cobalt Corp. The study says that using third party cobalt hydroxide as feed, the refinery output could be doubled to 5,000 t/y cobalt…
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PUMPS: GIW answers the question – What’s wrong with my bearings?
GEORGIA – Each day, GIW Industries engineers work with customers to solve problems associated with their pumps. One pump component we get a lot of questions about is the cartridge bearing assembly. We spoke to Jon Keith, GIW product manager,…
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COBALT: Glencore to support First Cobalt’s refinery restart
ONTARIO – Toronto’s First Cobalt Corp. and Swiss mining giant Glencore AG have signed a memorandum of understanding to supply feedstock and financing to the reopening of First Cobalt’s cobalt refinery in the town of Cobalt. This is the only…
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LITHIUM: Lithium Australia achieves high purity lithium phosphate from waste materials
AUSTRALIA – Following the development of a process to generate lithium phosphate from waste materials, Lithium Australia announced this week that its experts have now developed a technique for removing impurities from the lithium phosphate resulting in an exceptionally high…
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GOLD: Marathon shares rise on positive heap leach results
NEWFOUNDLAND – Test results from Marathon Gold’s Leprechaun and Marathon deposits at the company’s Valentine Lake gold camp demonstrate they are amenable to heap leaching. Selected intervals of mineralized material were shipped to SGS Canada last fall and highlights from the…
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LITHIUM: Nemaska Lithium Provides Whabouchi Project Update
Nemaska Lithium Inc. provided an update on the overall Whabouchi project and disclosed its quarterly financials. “We have made good overall progress during the past months on both the construction at the Whabouchi mine and the detailed engineering at the…
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PROCESSING: Golden Predator Processing Plant Operations Update – 3 Aces Gold Project, Yukon
Vancouver – Golden Predator Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that as of April 19, 2019, the Company’s test processing plant, the first of its kind in Yukon, Canada, recommenced operations and processing of the 2018 3 Aces Project bulk sample following…
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ZINC-LEAD: Osisko Metals tests pre-concentrating sorters
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Montreal-based Osisko Metals reports successful results for pre-concentrating test work using material sorters. Two technologies were tested – x-ray transmission sorting and dense media separation. Representative samples were prepared of material from Osisko’s Pine Point zinc-lead project…
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COBALT: Canada Cobalt signs deal for first revenue stream
COQUITLAM, B.C. – Canada Cobalt Works has signed a deal for the custom treatment of material from U.S. mines using its proprietary Re-2OX process. A non-binding memorandum of understanding has been signed between Canada Cobalt and Global Energy Metals of…
