Mining.

Specialty raw materials and reagents tailored 
for Australia’s base metal and coal mining sectors.

Mining

InterChem is a partner to the mining industry and a leading chemicals supplier and mining solutions provider. We work with prominent chemical producers from around the world that helps customer operations improve productivity, metallurgical and extraction performance and meet safety objectives. We offer mining products and technology solutions, targeting a wide variety of mining process applications. We backup our products with expert advice, first-class technical support, and supply chain networks to optimize our customer’s mining operations and improve a mine’s metallurgical recovery and mineral concentrate grade (product quality) and extraction performance. Our product range in the mining sector includes quality reagents, process technologies and expertise, focusing primarily on Flotation, Mineral Processing, Solvent Extraction and Leaching process applications.

What we do

We provide a dependable and proven range of quality mining reagents, from solid and bulk liquid commodities, through to more specialised, tailored products for un-interrupted supply to a large customer base, including Australia’s Metalliferous and Coal Mining Industries. We specialise in mining chemicals for flotation, mineral processing, solvent and metal extraction, and leaching processes, and provide application expertise, leading on-site technical support and logistics services to optimize our customer’s mining operations. InterChem’s capability also extends to other areas in the mining sector, including the availability of reagents for dust suppression, wire rope maintenance lubricants and specialist greases and lubricants for machinery, and selected water treatment reagents, including defoamers and coagulants.

 

Our key markets 

InterChem’s key end markets include the supply of chemicals for mineral beneficiation in the gold, base metal sulfide and industrial metals, oxides, precious metal, lithium, mineral sands, rare earths and coal mining sectors. The shift to a clean energy system is set to drive a huge increase in the requirements for minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, graphite, and rare earth elements, and InterChem is well placed as a supplier in searching for more efficient means of producing high-purity minerals with reduced cost and environmental impact.

 

InterChem works with key global chemical manufacturing partners and draws on its own strong synthesis and technical capabilities and significant supply chain networks to assist our customers in meeting their needs. InterChem services numerous mines in the Asia Pacific, PNG and ASEAN mining regions and works with our customers to provide un-interrupted reagent supply and solutions to improve productivity and reduce customers' operating costs.

 

Our diversity is our strength, and our motivation is to continually source and make new and improved products to better service our markets and geographical regions. From Greenfield projects to commissioning stages to continuous improvement activities, InterChem’s dedicated mining team supports flotation and hydrometallurgical process improvements for a variety of mineral systems, from complex ores to tailored plant applications.

 

Our products are used to recover many metals and minerals, especially copper, gold, silver, uranium, nickel/cobalt, phosphate and polymetallic ores, lead, zinc, spodumene (lithium), rare earths and coal.
 
Brands to market include INTERFLOAT®, INTERCOL®, INTERFOAM®INTERCARB®, IONQUEST®, FLOATMAX®, PJAC®, ELASKON®, and more.

Products

Preview of Frothers

Frothers

INTERFLOAT® frother series providing the full range of froth strength properties, froth characteristics and solution properties to optimize frother performance and frother residuals. The INTERFLOAT...

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Preview of Defoamers

Defoamers

InterChem supplies a range of specialty defoamers for mineral processing applications and water treatment, covering a variety of chemistries and strengths designed to suit process requirements. In...

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Preview of Collectors

Collectors

Proprietary INTERCOL® collector range designed to optimize flotation performance of metal sulfides, industrial minerals, precious metals, rare earths and coal fines. InterChem's range of specialty col...

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Preview of Solvent Extraction Reagents

Solvent Extraction Reagents

Solvent extraction is a critical unit operation in the hydrometallurgical processing of many ores, and is widely applied on a commercial scale for valuable metal recovery. InterChem offers a range of...

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Case Studies

INTERFLOAT® FROTHERS

OPTIMISING THE FROTHER SELECTION PROCESS

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GUIDE TO OPTIMAL FROTHER SELECTION

FROTHER MAP TO USE INTERFLOAT® FROTHERS ACROSS DIFFERENT ORES

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