Nautilus Minerals’ flagship Solwara 1 might be closer to dive its toes in Papua New Guinea’s sea
Nautilus Minerals has gone through some bad times over the last year. The difficulties that are affecting the firm are mainly related to a commercial dispute that started in June of 2012 and involves the company and the government of Papua New Guinea. The most affected project was Nautilus’ flagship Solwara 1, linked to a deep sea […]
AngloGold Ashanti has technology that mines gold all the time
AngloGold Ashanti announced a new “game-changing technology” that can safely mine “all of the gold, only the gold, all the time”, said the firm’s new CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan. There’s no drill and blast. Effectively it removes the seismic impact, brings a safe working environment, eliminates dilution and brings all of the gold out. AngloGold Ashanti recently announced it’s cutting […]
Technologies that will change mining in the next years
Some emerging technologies are set to completely transform the way mining professionals will operate over the next 10 years. Whether we are talking about improving productivity, saving money or boosting safety in order to better protect the workers, there are 11 technologies that will change the way we mine, according to a recent report from […]
Benefits of using SART on a Zn CN solution
In the absence of SART Process, cyanide is consumed by the leaching of cyanide-soluble zinc minerals present in the ore, generating a WAD cyanide-zinc complex (Zn(CN)42-) in solution. This dissolved WAD CN-Zn complex circulates back to the leach in the recycled Barren Leach Solution (BLS), and further reacts with Ag2S in the fresh ore to […]