This week’s photo shows two FEECO agglomerators installed at an ore processing facility. Adding an agglomerator to a heap leaching operation not only increases efficiency, but also maximizes metal recovery, whether the operation is for gold, silver, copper, or nickel ore. These agglomerators work by …
Each week on our home page, we feature three articles that are highly relevant under the current market circumstances. This week, we’re highlighting: Chicken Litter: From Nuisance to Product Chicken Litter: From Nuisance to Product takes a look at a case study in which FEECO …
Disc pelletizers are a type of agitation agglomeration equipment used to process fines into rounded pellets or granules. They are favored by industries ranging from specialty chemicals to soil amendments for their flexibility in particle size control and the refined pellet product they produce. The …
The mining industry is under mounting pressure to find an alternative approach to managing tailings – the residue left over after the target component has been extracted. As efforts grow around implementing renewable energy and electric vehicle fleets, miners are tasked with extracting more metals …
When pelletization, granulation, or other agglomeration methods are employed, an additional and fairly common process is to coat agglomerates, or apply of a thin layer of material to the end product. Coating is done for a number of reasons, including: Coatings are commonly used in …
Each week on our home page, we feature three articles that are highly relevant under the current market circumstances. This week, we’re highlighting: Gypsum Pellets Provide Source of Sulfur to Crops Gypsum Pellets Provide Source of Sulfur to Crops explores why gypsum soil amendment products …
The soil amendment industry is one of constantly rising competition; consumers are becoming more discerning, expecting more from the products they choose to put their money in, and the science around soil health is continually advancing, prompting demand for more specialized products. The use of …
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a new report highlighting the stark and worrying differences between clean energy ambitions and supplies of critical minerals. The report, which the agency calls the most comprehensive study to date on the topic, lays out the dangers of …
This week’s Photo of the Week comes to us from a unique project FEECO did in the late 1970s for handling petroleum coke. The image shows the interior of a tube in which the shuttle conveyor was housed when not filling barges. The conveyor would …
Biocoal, a product produced by thermally upgrading biomass, has been gaining traction throughout the world as countries look to more renewable energy sources in an effort to reduce dependence on coal and mitigate greenhouse gases. What is Biocoal? Biocoal, also commonly referred to as syn …