Tag: Mining
-
Torishima wins pump deal for Chilean reverse osmosis desalination
Japanese pump manufacturer Torishima Pump has received an order for high-pressure pumps and booster pumps for a new reverse osmosis desalination plant being built in Copiapo, Chile.
-
Namibian uranium mine ponders desalination project
Namibian uranium mining firm Rössing Uranium is investigating the economic viability of designing, constructing and operating a new desalination plant to supply its operation in the economically important Erongo Region where water is scarce.
-
Bluefield analyst joins fracking reuse advisory group
Bluefield Research analyst, Erin Bonney Casey, has been selected to join the WateReuse Foundation’s project advisory committee on current use and trends of reuse in the hydraulic fracturing industry.
-
Mining water treatment market to grow 85% by 2019
The global water treatment market for hard-rock mining – iron, copper, gold, nickel – is set to grow 85% to US$ 17 billion by 2019 according to market analyst, Bluefield Research.
-
GE appoints WIBAX as Nordic water tech distributor
GE announced on 27 May 2014 that the Swedish company WIBAX Energy AB, part of the WIBAX Group, would distribute GE’s water technologies in the Nordic region.
-
Ex-Adelaide desalination chief joins Singapore’s Hyflux
Milind Kumar, formerly project director of the Adelaide Desalination Plant for South Australia Water, has been appointed to a senior position in Singapore group Hyflux Ltd.
-
APTwater Rochem relaunched under Ultura brand name
Ultura™ is the new name for APTwater Rochem, the California-based membrane technology business that last year bought out the remainder of the Sepro membrane business from its Japanese partner.
-
Doosan Enpure secures Escondida pretreatment contract
Doosan Enpure has secured a US$ 17 million contract to design, procure and supply the pretreatment plant for the desalination part of the Escondida Water Supply Project at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile’s Atacama desert.
-
Chilean politicians launch mining desalination bill
A cross-party group of eight deputies in the lower house of the Chilean national congress has submitted a bill to require mining companies using more than 150 L/s of water for extraction purposes to install seawater desalination equipment.
-
New quartet joins RWL’s Aeromix and Nirosoft
RWL Water has recently added four new staff to its group companies Aeromix and Nirosoft.