Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy Group

The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Canada, has successfully designed and manufactured proprietary, commercial-scale, solvent extraction cells for its rare-earth processing facility, currently under construction.

UAVs in the mining industry, a VR-based interactive teaching and practice environment, and stope performance using georeferenced octrees and multivariate analysis are among the topics covered.

Carbon can be captured into waste rock powders during mining operations and aggregate production, say researchers at Strathclyde University, UK.