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Silver Bay City to allow Northshore Mining to send high fluoride water to city
Excerpt: Also at the meeting, the council unanimously voted to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Northshore Mining for a trial program allow the plant to send its high fluoride water to the city. The plant is treating the high fluoride water as much as it is able, but now will mix the water […]
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Nokeng mulling two or three more fluorspar mines by 2026 as huge shortage is predicted
Following the breakthrough of opening the first new mine in Gauteng, South Africa, in the last 12 years, which is being developed by producer SepFluor’s wholly owned Nokeng fluorspar mine, the company aims to become vertically integrated in the fluorspar value chain in future. Fluorite ore is mined for the production of calcium fluoride (CaF2), […]
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Snow, soil and trees could help detect mineral deposits in Canada
Researchers on Vancouver Island have developed an analytical method that allows them to use snow, soil and trees to identify buried mineral deposits. According to their findings, the new series of techniques could help reduce the impact of mineral exploration work while lowering costs and increasing efficiency. Working at British Columbia’s Mount Washington gold-copper-silver prospect […]
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SepFluor begins building its long-awaited fluorspar mine
SepFluor Limited has begun work on the R1.7bn Nokeng fluorspar mine at Rust de Winter, northeast of Pretoria, with funding provided by private equity and banks. The company, which was unbundled from Sephaku Holdings in 2012, had been planning the mine for at least seven years and originally intended to couple it with a fluorchemical […]
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Hexafluorosilicic acid. Lithium Australia denies using toxic chemicals to develop technology
Lithium Australia wants to bust a myth that a process it is developing for lithium recovery uses toxic reagents. The Perth-based company is developing a technology called Sileach, a hydrometallurgical process aimed at enhancing the recovery of lithium from hard rock. Lithium Australia managing director Adrian Griffin said there had been “a lot of speculation […]
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Tertiary aiming to tap fluorspar market
Tertiary Minerals (LON:TYM) is the UK’s only public traded fluorspar company – a mineral the firm describes as “strategic”. The AIM group has three fluorspar assets – the Storuman property in Sweden and the Lassedalen project in Norway. It also controls the large MB deposit in Nevada USA which has been its main focus has […]
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Fluorspar: No funds to add value
SEPFLUOR will begin construction of its Nokeng fluorspar mine near Pretoria within the next three to six months but has had to defer plans for a fluorochemical plant at Ekandustria because of difficulties in raising funding. Bank loans for new mines have not dried up completely but have become harder to get in the current […]
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Florida Phosphate Gypsum Stacks Display Severe Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has broad concerns about Florida’s phosphate industry and the hazardous waste they leave behind in the form of huge “gypstacks”. The EPA finds radiation in the form of gamma radiation from these dangerous waste dumps. Gypsum Stacks One of EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) primary concerns with phosphate mines in Florida […]
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Okorusu says might reopen early 2015
Windhoek- Solvay’s Okorusu Flourspar [sic Fluorspar] Namibian mine could partially resume mining operations in February 2015 if studies to determine commercial viability of a new ore body 100 metres below surface are completed. “We will conduct exploration for the last remaining portion of the body that has not been looked at, we need to conduct research […]
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A contaminated lake is poisoning a Thai village
Ban Mae Toen is a small rural village in the Thai province of Lampang, 300 miles away from Bangkok. Unfortunately for the villagers, it is close to a fluoride mine. Though the mine closed 40 years ago, the area has become home a polluted artificial lake that overflows during the rainy season. Given the lack of […]
Thailand Mining Industry