Increasing demand for raw materials, availability of primary raw materials (poorer ores at lower depths, export restrictions), efficient circular economy, Industry 4.0 and digitization – these are...
The operators of the La Parrilla tungsten and tin mine in south-western Spain have entrusted the processing of extracted ore to the German mining specialists in order to achieve their production...
After the figures for maritime transportation of coal and ore recently stagnated, a slight increase is forecast for the coming years. The following article describes ...
Summary: Primetals Technologies has already successfully introduced the Hybrid Flotation technology for beneficiation of non-ferrous metals. The increasing demand for highly enriched iron ore...
Summary: Mines are faced with numerous challenges, such as falling raw material prices, declining metal grades in the ores and higher energy prices. Especially because ore processing is particularly...
Profound understanding of raw materials’ characteristics is essential for process and resource efficiency in the mining as well as in the recycling sector. Materials characterization has become a...
On 18.12.1991 Heraeus started the mass production of hollow cylinders from synthetic quartz glass, an important pre-cursor product for the production of glass fibres, at the chemical industry park in...
Over the past years the technology in the field of analytics has developed further and become more refined. The improved analysis process quickly reached its limits when it came to evaluating larger materials quantities through small test samples. Faulty sample taking can lead to serious deviations. ...
Modelling and simulation supply the answer to navigating the ever-growing oceans of data that threaten to engulf us. The new HSC Chemistry 7.0 (Fig. 1) from Outotec Research Oy, of Pori/Finland is a...