Portugal’s mining strategy may favour copper over lithium
Portugal already has the largest copper mine in the European Union, operated by Lundin Mining.
GIW Industries, a leader in the design, manufacture and application of heavy-duty, centrifugal slurry pumps, has announced that global talc producer Mondo Minerals has installed GIW’s High Volume Froth (HVF) pump at its talc processing plant in Outokumpu, Finland. During the pump’s first month of operations, the plant was able to stabilise the flotation process and eliminate a safety hazard. According to GIW, Mondo Minerals was aware of the success that had been attained by the Yara phosphate plant in Finland in solving a similar froth problem by installing GIW’s HVF pump and so opted to install its own HVF. (more…)
