State Development Minister Dr Anthony Lynham releases 10-year Mining Technology action plan at Core Resources. On Wednesday 19th July, the Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines The Honourable Dr Anthony Lynham visited Core’s facilities. Dr Lynham announced a 10-year action plan to make the state’s existing $7 billion mining equipment,…
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Core, with partners Mineral Technologies and Whittle Consulting, presented critical new information on its patented Toowong Process at the ALTA 2017 conference. An emergent technology, the Toowong Process is now being commercialised with the assistance of a $ 1million Accelerating Commercialisation grant from AusIndustry. The Toowong Process is a novel technology for the removal of…
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Mineral Technologies and Core Resources Establish Non-Exclusive Strategic Partnership Downer’s Mineral Technologies business and Core Resources today announced the formation of a non-exclusive global strategic partnership to provide end-to-end project solutions to precious and base metals customers. Mineral Technologies is a world leader in fine mineral separation solutions including process engineering, plant design, separation equipment…
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Core recently celebrated ten years of operating and growing its metallurgical laboratory in Albion, Brisbane. This follows on from the 25 years MIM/Glencore operated the facility as HRL (Hydrometallurgy Research Laboratories). Since its ownership Core has expanded the facilities to include capabilities covering most mineral processing unit operations along with process engineering that brings to…
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The inaugural METS Ignited Collaboration Award has been awarded to Core Resources and Glencore for their collaboration on the commercialisation of the Albion Process. The award, presented at the 2016 IMARC Gala Dinner in Melbourne last week, recognises successful collaboration between METS companies, miners and researchers, working together on products and solutions for mutual gain. Paul…
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Core has been awarded a federal government grant funding for its innovative Toowong Process for treating Arsenic-containing minerals. Core Group (“Core”), the Brisbane-based mineral processing technology and innovation group, is delighted that its novel technology, The Toowong Process, has been awarded an Accelerating Commercialisation Grant by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. The grant…
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Mineral Processing of Strategic Metals In the challenging times of the mining industry, “Strategic Metals” have found a celebrity status recently. Capital has flowed into companies focussed on these elements (or at least some of the elements), as investors seek to ride the wave of new technologies that draw on these elements. Called “strategic” because…
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An Introduction to Elutriation Testing One of the many process tested at Core is elutriation. This method of separating target minerals from gangue minerals takes advantage of the differences in size, shape and density of the minerals. In the elutriator (shown), slurry is continually pumped to the midway point of the unit (to avoid short circuiting)…
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From mid-2015, Core has been leading the recommissioning of a gold processing plant at the Consolidated Murchison Gold/Antimony mine in South Africa. In November this year, the operation achieved the milestone of the first gold pour (pictured in the hands of Core’s Rod Ventura) from the recommissioned plant. Stibium Mining entered an agreement in 2015…
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Core recently completed a 3 week High Density Solids (HDS) neutralisation pilot plant programme. The goal of the programme was to develop benchmark data for use in the development of a number of the client’s copper leach projects. The programme investigated a range of process conditions in a continuous pilot plant circuit. The pilot trial…
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