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Ten Ways to Improve the Grinding Efficiency of Your Ball Mill
Ten Ways to Improve the Grinding Efficiency of Your Ball Mill There are a lot of problems that most mineral processing plant will meet when operating the ball mill, such as low grinding efficiency, low processing capacity, high energy consumption, unstable product fineness of the ball mill. So h...Read more -
What is a ball mill used for?
What is a ball mill used for? A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind, blend and sometimes for mixing of materials for use in mineral dressing processes, paints, pyrotechnics, ceramics, and selective laser sintering. It works on the principle of impact and attrition: size reduction is d...Read more -
Carbon emission curves for iron ore, copper, met coal and nickel
Carbon emission curves for iron ore, copper, met coal and nickel Skarn Associates is pleased to announce the first release of its Carbon Emission Curves for the mining industry. These curves and underlying mine-by-mine data are available for iron ore, copper, nickel and metallurgical coal...Read more -
PolyMet stock skyrockets on court decision over water permit
PolyMet stock skyrockets on court decision over water permit Shares of PolyMet (NYSE: PLM) skyrocketed more than 75% during Friday’s morning session after a Ramsey County District Court judge found that Minnesota regulators did not break permitting rules for the company’s proposed co...Read more -
Vale to shut New Caledonia mine as buyer walks away
Vale to shut New Caledonia mine as buyer walks away Vale (NYSE: VALE) is preparing to potentially shut down its nickel and cobalt operations on the Pacific island of New Caledonia after failing to reach an agreement on the asset’s sale with Australia’s New Century Resources (ASX: NCZ...Read more -
Zinc price to enter long term structural decline in 2021 – report
Zinc price to enter long term structural decline in 2021 – report Zinc prices will edge higher over the remainder of 2020, continuing a strong rebound from the lows posted during the initial covid-19 outbreak, according to Fitch Solutions’ latest industry report. Zinc prices fell by ...Read more -
Mining deal value down over $18bn due to pandemic
Mining deal value down over $18bn due to pandemic Global mining deal value, suffering from an unanticipated shock from the covid-19 pandemic, fell by over $18 billion when compared to the first half of 2019 to $46.6 billion in the first half of 2020, GlobalData reports. The global ec...Read more -
Petra Diamonds accused of human rights abuses in Tanzania
Petra Diamonds accused of human rights abuses in Tanzania Struggling Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL), which put itself up for sale in June, is facing allegations of human rights abuses at its Williamson mine in Tanzania resulting from the actions of its security guards. The South African co...Read more -
OceanaGold extends mine life, boosts reserves at Macraes
OceanaGold extends mine life, boosts reserves at Macraes OceanaGold (TSX, ASX: OGC) is extending the mine life at its Macraes operation on the South Island of New Zealand by at least seven years, the miner announced Thursday. The Macraes operation — comprising a series of open-pit mi...Read more -
BHP to mine Australian coal using greener energy
BHP to mine Australian coal using greener energy BHP (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) said on Tuesday it had inked a deal to support the development of new solar and wind farms in Australia’s Queensland state as part of a company-wide effort to use more renewable energy. The miner, which runs n...Read more -
BHP falls short of expected profit, warns of slowing growth outside China
BHP falls short of expected profit, warns of slowing growth outside China BHP Group on Tuesday said it expects most major world economies except China to bear the brunt of a coronavirus-led downturn this year, reporting a 4% drop in annual profit that missed analysts’ estimates. Whil...Read more -
Barrick fighting PNG move to grant Porgera lease to state-backed miner
Barrick fighting PNG move to grant Porgera lease to state-backed miner Canada’s Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX) (NYSE: GOLD) said it would challenge the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government’s reported move to grant a 20-year lease for the Porgera gold mine to a state-backed firm. The world’s se...Read more