Abstract:

Mineral mining and processing Industry of Vietnam is facing a number of huge challenges at present, but there are also great opportunities for its growth in the future. Mineral processing plants need to make breakthrough improvements in the process designing, technology and equipment utilisation in order to meet requirements of the new era. These challenges force our miners and mineral processing operators to constantly make efforts in researches and to bring best solutions to improve plant operations to ensure the requirements of safety, market demands, product quality, sustainable development and environmental friendliness. Specifically, the issues that need to be addressed urgently are capacity and quality of the workforce, tailings treatment, fine particle processing, ores of low washability, recovery rate increase and maximisation of recoverable valuable minerals, environmental issues and workplace safety monitoring and control, maximasation of production efficiency and reduction of operating costs. This report presents the current key challenges of the mining and mineral processing industry in order to help professionals and policy makers in the field of mineral mining and processing to bring rational directions for action initiate appropriate studies and improve management methods; to help mineral processing plants in improving the production efficiency and recovery of valuable minerals; to reduce operating costs and to become environmentally friendly and to develop sustainably.