Processing and smelting news covers the critical steps of mineral extraction—from ore treatment to final metal refinement. Explore developments in hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, leaching, and advanced separation technologies. This category also tracks plant upgrades, emissions control, smelter operations, and recovery efficiencies across global facilities. Essential for metallurgists, plant engineers, and executives focused on cost-effective, sustainable refining. Related coverage includes Mining Technology, Metals Prices, and Mining Operations.
India expects to finalise its critical minerals stockpiling policy within about a month, as planned processing parks and a ₹1,500-crore recycling scheme support efforts to strengthen domestic mineral supply chains.…
Westwin Elements plans to spend $502 million over the next five years on the Westwin Natchez nickel refinery, a commercial-scale, high-purity nickel plant in Natchez, Mississippi.…
The United States wants to turn minerals on the Pacific seabed into a new source of critical materials. But bringing those resources ashore is only part…
Tronox and Japan’s JX Advanced Metals are committing US$32 million to studies for a proposed rare-earth processing chain spanning Australia and the United States. The plan…
India will launch a new lithium-nickel processing scheme as it develops critical-mineral parks and seeks greater domestic mineral value addition.
Copper concentrate handling systems at a large-scale smelting complex. By Charles Pitts Copper’s record price is being accompanied by an unusual split in the supply chain:…
Brazil’s new policy improves the financing toolkit for domestic processing, but project bankability will depend on qualification rules, infrastructure and credible offtake structures. By Charles Pitts…
Rare earth separation infrastructure illustrates the supply chain’s midstream bottleneck. By Charles Pitts INTELLIGENCE HOOK : THE MIDSTREAM DECIDES WHAT REACHES MARKET The defining constraint in…
By Penny Langford Critical Metals Corp. is positioning a proposed refinery near Brașov, Romania, as a test of whether Europe can turn an unusual Greenland mineral…
Copper concentrate stockpiled beside material-handling equipment at a smelting facility. By Mo Shine The copper concentrate market has reached a point that would have been difficult…
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