To meet the upcoming challenges posed by the Industrie 4.0 vision, Siemens is placing its trust in the Digital Enterprise. “For us, the Digital Enterprise has long since ceased to be just a...
Production facilities and components of Industry 4.0 are linked to the Internet, networked with each other, and thus open to attack. At this year’s Hannover Messe, the researchers from...
The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is honoured to be hosting the XXVIII International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC) in Québec City, Québec/Canada. From 11 to...
5 Flotation of metal ores
Metal-bearing ores can be classified as follows for the purposes of flotation [29]:
“Class b” metal sulphides and “borderline” metals, in particular lead, zinc,...
1 Motivation
In times of generally rising energy costs, besides the costs for basic fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, the costs for secondary fuels, for example electric power, are also increasing....
1 End of a super-cycle
The rise in many commodity prices reached its peak in 2011 to 2012. After that, there were some serious price declines, like that recently seen in the case of crude oil. What...
A Brazilian mine operator is using a Rammer 3288 hydraulic hammer in a secondary breaking application to maximize production at a facility in Brumadinho. The 2040 kg hydraulic hammer is helping to...
For the first time the Steel Institute VDEh and the German Society for Materials Science (DGM) will organize the MATERIAL WEEK in Dresden from 14 to 17 September. This will be a congress including...
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Industry 4.0 - it is a term more and more frequently used. However, what does it really mean? After the use of steam and water power, the use of electric energy and the following...
“Making proven technology even better”. This is the motto under which the EML 200 range was revamped and improved (Fig. 1). The HAVER EML 200 Premium offers practical innovation – it is much...
