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Improvements in efficiency and bypass demonstrated by the latest addition to the Cavex® 2 hydrocyclone range translate to operational savings for brownfield sites and reduced capital expense for greenfield projects. Melbourne, Australia – When the Cavex® hydrocyclone was introduced to the industry over 20 years ago, it set the benchmark for the rest of the market. As the first commercial high-efficiency hydrocyclone, it has been providing mining customers across the globe with guaranteed performance and a name that they can trust. The recently launched Cavex® 2 took this product range a step further with enhanced performance and design. The Cavex® 2 hydrocyclone marked a new era in separation technology, with its LIG+™ advanced laminar spiral inlet and size of the…

By Rachel Dally-Watkins 20 May, 2015 A coal dust report by Clean Air Queensland has been heavily criticised by the Queensland Resources Council for being “deeply flawed and misleading”. The Health Hazard in our Suburbs study claimed that air quality monitoring showed “alarming” rates of pollution in Brisbane due to dust from coal trains travelling to the port, with coal train pollution readings of 900 per cent above normal levels. Clean Air Queensland is a coalition of community groups and individual anti-coal activist groups, including Lock the Gate Alliance, Oakey Coal Action Alliance, Friends of the Earth Brisbane and Parent’s Against Coal Dust. Clean Air Queensland spokesman Michael Kane urged the state government to take the report seriously. “We need a commitment…

By Rachel Dally-Watkins 29 April, 2015 ASX-listed Perseus Mining has decided to proceed with development of the Sissingué gold mine (SGM) in Ivory Coast, following a positive revised feasibility study. The study showed the project was technically feasible and economically robust, with measured and indicated resources of 880,000oz of gold and proved and probable reserves of 429,000oz of gold. The mine would produce about 385,000oz of gold across a 5.25 year life, at an average of 75,000oz of gold per year, at an all-in sustaining cost of US$632 per ounce. Perseus’ study showed start up capital costs would total US$106 million (including contingency), with funding to be sourced from existing cash and a “modest” amount of third party debt. “Our…