Press Releases

CiDRA to present paper at 2016 WODCON XXI
Hyatt Regency Miami, June 13-17, 2016

Alex van der Spek, PhD, will be presenting a paper titled, NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR DREDGING MIXTURE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT, which will cover an evaluation and the corresponding results using a passive sonar based mixture velocity measurement on a DEME trailing suction hopper dredger.

CiDRA (“CiDRA”) has announced the results of a 12-Year Calibration Test performed at Alden Research Laboratory, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) traceable and certified facility located in Massachusetts.

CiDRA announces today the successful completion of another project win with KROHNE Australia for CiDRA's SONARtrac® flow measurement solution.

CiDRA (“CiDRA”) announced that it has entered into a distributor agreement with Yokogawa Australia & New Zealand. Yokogawa will sell CiDRA’s SONARtrac range of flow meters into the Australian and New Zealand minerals processing sector.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announced today the successful deployment of their SONARtrac flow technology in OceanaGold’s Didipio gold mine in the Philippines. The SONARtrac system is a non-contact and non-invasive flow meter solution which enables the accurate volumetric monitoring of slurries as well as the presence of any entrained air or gas.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announces the CYCLONEtrac® Classification Optimization family of products, which are novel, complete systems that enable reliable optimization of classification at the individual hydrocyclone level.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announced today the successful installation of the largest SONARtrac system in Peru, the largest flowmeter in Peruvian mining. The 48” meter was installed on a reclaimed water line at Southern Copper’s Cuajone mine in the southern-most Andes Mountains of Peru with the cooperation of Cuajone’s team.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. (“CiDRA”) announced that it has entered into a strategic sales representative agreement with ATSCO Sales & Service, Utah. Under the terms of the agreement, ATSCO will act as an exclusive sales representative of CiDRA’s array-based flow monitoring systems for minerals processing and power applications in Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announced the successful commissioning of the SONARtrac system on a dewatering line 302m underground. Industrias Peñoles, Mexico's second largest silver and lead producer, selected CiDRA’s SONARtrac system for their Naica Mine, a lead, zinc and silver mine located in the municipality of Saucillo.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announced today that Southern Copper Company’s Cuajone mine in Peru has awarded CiDRA a contract to supply, install, start-up and commission a 48” diameter SONARtrac flowmeter, the largest to be installed in Peru. The system is required to measure water flow in one of the plant’s principal feed lines.

CiDRA’s Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Alan D. Kersey, has been invited to speak at the SPIE sponsored House of Representatives Research & Development Caucus, to be held on April 17, 2012. The event will focus on Next Generation Job Creation and the Sensing Technologies for Manufacturing, Medicine and Environmental Safety.

CiDRA Oilsands announced today that Canadian Dewatering L.P (CDLP) has chosen CiDRA’s SONARtrac® flow monitoring systems for several key applications managed by CDLP.

CiDRA Minerals Processing announced today that Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (AHMSA) has chosen CiDRA's SONARtrac® flow monitoring systems as their preferred technology for use in two coal preparation plants owned by AHMSA, located in Coahuila, Mexico.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. announced today that Anglo American has awarded CiDRA a contract to supply SONARtrac process measurement systems to the Los Bronces Development Project. The expansion of the Los Bronces copper mine is one of the largest mining jobs in Chile today.

CiDRA Minerals Processing announced today that Rio Tinto has chosen CiDRA's SONARtrac® flow monitoring systems as its preferred technology for use on slurry lines at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia. CiDRA will instrument 30 lines at the new concentrator, where the SONARtrac systems will provide increased accuracy and reduced maintenance costs.

CiDRA Minerals Processing announced today that through an agreement with Bechtel International, CiDRA will be the supplier of flowmeters for five Xstrata Copper greenfield projects, which are part of a Bechtel/Xstrata strategic alliance and the Standard Concentrator Project.

CiDRA Minerals Processing announced today that CiDRA was awarded a contract for the installation of three flowmeters at AngloGold Ashanti's Cerro Vanguardia mine in Patagonia, Argentina.

CiDRA Minerals Processing, Inc. working together with KROHNE in China and Australia, secured a major project win at CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino Iron Project in Australia. The massive Sino Iron project is being developed at Cape Preston, 100 kilometres south west of Karratha in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

CiDRA Minerals Processing announced today that Barrick Peru has selected the CiDRA SONARtrac system for a critical chemical reagent line within their Lagunas Norte gold mine. The mine is located on the Alto Chicama property of north-central Peru and lies on the western flank of the Peruvian Andes at an elevation of 4,000 to 4,260 meters above sea level.

CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc. (“CiDRA”) announced that it has entered into a strategic sales representative agreement with Morris Coker of Beckley, West Virginia.

CiDRA Minerals Processing, Inc. announced today that they have successfully installed and commissioned SONARtrac® process monitoring systems at Minera Hierro Atacama, located in the Copiapó Province, Third Region, Chile. Minera Hierro Atacama is owned by CAP Minería, a mainly Chilean company engaged in mining of iron.

CiDRA (“CiDRA”) proudly announces that SONARtrac Flow Monitoring Systems are now officially registered with PROFIBUS.

CiDRA Minerals Processing, Inc. announced today that SONARtrac process monitoring instrumentation has been chosen for flow measurement on critical lines within Hercules MINOSA, located in Coahuila state, Mexico.