Critical minerals, rare earth and battery minerals
Australia has among the world’s largest recoverable resources of critical and battery minerals including significant rare earth elements (REEs) deposits. Critical minerals such as Lithium, Alumina, Nickel, Tungsten, Vanadium, Zirconium, Niobium, Magnesium, Manganese, Antimony, Cobalt and others are essential components in various high-tech applications supporting the world’s energy transition to net zero, including batteries, renewable energy, electronics and defense technologies. Alfa Laval has a wide range of equipment and application experience, together with local service capabilities, to optimize critical mineral processes and extraction applications.

Popular products for heat transfer
Compact and efficient heat exchangers play a key role in optimising critical mineral processes for performance and energy efficiency, including cooling prior to crystallisation, slurry heating and flotation.
Curious which heat exchanger is best suited to your application?
Popular products for separation
As a global leader in solid-liquid separation technology, Alfa Laval offers a range of decanter centrifuges engineered for mining and minerals applications, from slurry dewatering during exploration drilling to large scale tailings dewatering.