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Answers to comminution carbon pain

THE GLOBAL decarbonisation trend will result in huge opportunities for Australian miners, if they can produce lower-carbon mined materials, however, comminution remains an issue.

Comminution remains one of the biggest areas of Co2 emissions in the mining industry and more needs to be done to keep within Paris Agreement targets, according to Weir Group.

Comminution remains one of the biggest areas of Co2 emissions in the mining industry and more needs to be done to keep within Paris Agreement targets, according to Weir Group.

  Comminution - the processes involved in turning raw ore into saleable products - accounts for 1% of all global energy consumption globally. Without decarbonising comminution, Weir Group says mining...

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