by Gordon Barratt | May 6, 2021 | News
BHP’s Olympic Dam operation in South Australia. BHP has awarded a $15 million smelter maintenance contract at the Olympic Dam operation in South Australia to Boom Logistics. BHP has been setting Olympic Dam for the long-term, with exploration, maintenance and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 6, 2021 | News
Image: Shutterstock Researchers have developed a technique for extracting precious metals from hard rock ore without digging. Published in Science Advances, the research team included the CSIRO and the University of Western Australia (UWA), University of Exeter and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
At the beginning of the year TILEMANN GmbH, specialist manufacturer of Bucket Elevator Chains, Scraper Chains and Conveyor Chains, continued its trend of strong business, in particular with Scraper Chains. TILEMANN produced the chains for four SCHADE Semi-Portal...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
All new conveyor systems will inevitably succumb to the punishing bulk handling environment and begin the slow process of degradation. The system will eventually require more time and labor for maintenance, shorter spans between outages, longer periods of downtime...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
For dewatering and wastewater pumps to last a long time, every part of them must run nicely. If users suspect a defect in the oil chamber: Tsurumi has developed a test tool that provides information about the tightness of the pump. The tool is still only in use at...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
US-based Largo Clean Energy is preparing to produce batteries using vanadium extracted from northeastern Brazil, the company’s chief executive said on Tuesday, in a bid to capture a chunk of the fast-growing renewable energy storage market. The company, whose...
