The theme of this editorial aims to help thinking about a better future for mining, taking into account its past. It is worth remembering that fifty years […]

The highest investment and operating costs are found in Concentration Plants, particularly in comminution and concentration operations. Given the fact that those plants process mineral particles (which […]

I was invited and attended (as a listener) in the recent Forum of the group Voces Mineras (literally “Mining Voices”): Escenario económico en Chile y el aporte […]

The importance of the workers in the integration and implementation process of the new technologies available for the mining sector was one among the aspects highlighted by […]

BRAZIL – General The average water consumption per person is 154.9 liters/day¹. This is equivalent to 0.00645 m³/h (154.9/24 = 6.45 l/h = 0.00645 m³/h). With 12.18 […]

After almost 50 years, the SAG grinding still seems to master the comminution technology in the large base metals concentration plants. As it has been commented in […]

During the recent “e-mineração”, event organized by IBRAM (Brazilian Mining Institute), 15 thousand attendees, 600 companies interested in doing business with more than 20 mining companies, 208 […]

The need or convenience of Dry Concentration arises naturally in arid places and with resistance from the local environment, but it also appearing from the mineralogical composition […]

Even in the midst of the sanitary crisis and certainly after it, new winds can be seen in Chilean mining: new strategies, new executives, new attitudes, a […]

MOPENEWS presenta un análisis a partir del Informe de “Cifras actualizadas de la Minería”, de mayo 2020, editado por el Consejo Minero de Chile. El cobre chileno […]