MINING.COM Staff Writer

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Improving the efficiency of the tailings thickener in a coal preparation plant

A customer had multiple coal types, that were processed through the preparation plant. Some of the coal types had different settling characteristics, which affected tailings thickener efficiency and the “clarometer” instrument that tested settling rates in the incoming feed well failed from time to time, which meant that the floccing rate changed and the suspended solids increased, [...]
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Codelco says all five trapped workers at El Teniente mine have died

The workers have been trapped underground since Thursday night, when a 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck the central Chile region.