Boliden Harjavalta has chosen Metso Outotec’s SMD grinding mills to improve the capacity of its slag concentrator.

The world needs a sustainable recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland has joined forces with Canada and the Netherlands to host three high level events to address the important role circularity plays in the economies of the future, as well as in the fight against climate change and the nature crisis.

With ore grades declining and cost pressures rising, high-throughput circuits based on very large grinding mills are becoming an increasingly attractive option in mineral concentration applications. The Outotec® Open Ended Discharge Grinding Mill (OED Mill) enables innovative and efficient high-capacity circuit designs through the removal of pulp lifters from the discharge arrangement, facilitating reductions in both CAPEX and OPEX.

Outokumpu Oyj’s Board of Directors has at its first meeting appointed two permanent committees, Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee, and decided on their composition.

Critical and economically significant metals, such as cobalt and nickel, can be recovered profitably from metal refining wastes as well as ores with lower than usual concentrations. This was demonstrated by an EU project coordinated by VTT, which developed new and combined existing recovery methods. Various stakeholders interested in using low-grade ores and waste can evaluate the valorization of raw-material streams with the webtool developed in the project.

Keliber announced that through a review of its production plans, the company will be able to increase its annual lithium hydroxide production from 12,500 tonnes to 15,000 tonnes in its future mine and lithium concentration plant. In addition, the company has chosen to locate the future concentration plant to the Päiväneva area, which is located in the mining area approximately 10 km northeast from the nearest municipality, Kaustinen in Finland.

Boliden has signed an agreement with Agder Energi for fossil-free electricity supplies in Sweden and Finland. The agreement covers a total electricity supply of 1,000 GWh per year and runs for 15 years from 2022.

As part of investment in a growing tramline network in Helsinki, Finland, Sweco in alliance with Destia and WSP will provide services to Helsinki City Transport, HKL, for construction of the new Kalasatama tramline.

Outokumpu appoints Heikki Malinen as President and CEO

Endomines AB has placed EUR 3.4m loan with warrants to primarily Finnish institutional investors, including the Chairman of the Board of Endomines and the company’s CEO.

A loan facility amounting to EUR 3.4m have been placed with Finnish institutional investors. Among the investors are the Chairman of the Board and the CEO. The proceeds from the Loan will mainly be used for working capital need for the company and financing general corporate purposes of the Endomines group.

SSAB implements several short-term actions across the business to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 and the total annualized savings are estimated to exceed SEK 1 billion.

SSAB's annual general meeting (AGM) was held today, April 1, 2020, in Stockholm. The AGM resolved that no dividend will be paid for the financial year 2019.

During the first three months of the year the business has largely proceeded according to expectations. SSAB´s focus during the first quarter has been to reduce risks of spreading the Covid-19 virus, including measures to protect the health and safety of our personnel and at the same time sustaining operations.

Endomines announces that it has appointed Greg Smith as Chief Executive Officer of the company. Greg has, on a consultancy basis, been leading Endomines’ operations in the US and Finland since June 5th 2019, when Endomines communicated that it was evaluating the appointment of Greg as CEO of Endomines. Greg Smith will assume the position of CEO as soon as he has been granted a Swedish work permit (Sw. ICT-tillstånd), which is expected to be granted in February 2020, by the latest.

Boliden has decided to invest SEK 300 m with the aim of expanding electrified transportation in Aitik and implementing the corresponding technology in Kevitsa. Investments will be made mainly during 2020-2021.

Keliber has announced that the Mineral Resource estimate for Keliber’s Rapasaari lithium deposit has been updated. According to the company’s new estimate, the Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources of Rapasaari are 6.183 million tonnes, which is approximately 40 percent more than previously estimated.

Normet made history by demonstrating battery electric emulsion charging in production environment underground on June 4th in Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland, with their Charmec MC 605 VE SD, for the first time in Europe. Battery-based charging makes the explosives charging process safer and more efficient, as there is no need to plug in to the mine’s electric grid.

Endomines announce that it has today, under a consultancy agreement, appointed Greg Smith to lead Endomines’ operations in the US and Finland. Greg Smith has a broad background in energy, merchant banking and resource business from more than 30 years working in senior management and executive positions.

The Board of Directors and CEO Saila Miettinen-Lähde of Endomines AB (publ) have agreed that Saila Miettinen-Lähde will leave her position as CEO of the company.

Kai Helkiö (Construction Manager) has been appointed as a Construction Project Director for Keliber Oy's Lithium Project.

Keliber has submitted a mining permit application to the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes) regarding the Rapasaari mine area.

Normet SmartDrive, a fully electric offering for mining and tunneling construction was launched at Bauma exhibition last week. The fully electric technology on all SmartDrive fully electric battery-operated machines is sustainable and green.