Last updated Jun 2026
Metso Digital minerals processing and metals refining solutions help you unlock and sustain more value from your equipment, refinement processes and production planning. Our experts work alongside you, on-site and remotely, to make digitalization in your mining operations happen. This helps you reduce unplanned variability, keep production running closer to plan, and base decisions on how your process actually behaves, not how it should.
Increased throughput
Increased recovery
Reduced resource use
Plant planning solutions
Achieve full capacity earlier by making the right decisions faster. Best-in-class flow sheet design based on accurate real-world data, supported by operator training so you’re ready before day one.
Production planning solutions
Make the best production decisions based on accurate modelling, removing bottlenecks, avoiding losses and improving short and long-term output.
Equipment Performance Solutions
Maximise uptime, availability and safety with Metso Data-driven Performance solutions that combine Metso’s OEM expertise, data analytics, AI, remote monitoring and local support.
Process Performance solutions
Continually improve, optimise and stabilise processes across the flowsheet to increase recovery, throughput and sustainable practices.
Cut through the noise
We help you discover the signals that matter. We know your equipment, and what good performance looks like.
Act on rock-solid evidence
We provide clear, evidence-based recommendations and automated controls, helping you to optimize production.
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We stay with you beyond implementation to ensure the gains that you're making stick, and that solutions adapt.
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Frequently asked questions
Digitalization means using data, analytics and advanced control systems to improve how both processing and refining operations perform. It helps optimize crushing, grinding and flotation in mineral processing, as well as leaching, smelting and refining—reducing variability and enabling more consistent, predictable outcomes based on reliable data.
Digital solutions connect data across the plant and turn it into actionable and predictive insights. This helps anticipate changes in performance, increase throughput, improve recovery rates and keep operations stable—from comminution circuits to flotation and downstream refining processes.
Advanced process control (APC) automatically adjusts process variables to keep operations at optimal conditions. It is used in comminution, flotation, filtration, hydrometallurgy and smelting to stabilize performance, reduce variability and improve efficiency without relying on manual intervention.
Ore variability impacts both current performance and future planning. Digital solutions combine data from analyzers, sensors and historical performance to understand how ore characteristics affect the process. This allows teams to evaluate different production scenarios ahead of time and continuously adjust operations as conditions change. This keeps planning and execution closely aligned to improve overall stability and site productivity.
Data-driven optimization uses plant data from equipment and processes as well as advanced analytics to guide decisions. Instead of reacting after problems occur, operators and engineers can proactively improve e.g. throughput, recovery and energy efficiency based on a clear understanding of what drives performance.
AI is used to analyze complex process data and identify patterns that are not visible manually. It supports process control, performance prediction and decision-making. This helps reduce variability, improve stability and make production outcomes more predictable across processing and refining circuits.
Digital planning solutions use data from the orebody and plant performance to create more accurate production forecasts. By linking planning assumptions with actual plant behavior, they help ensure that production targets are realistic and achievable under changing conditions.
Yes. Digitalization supports the full value chain from crushing and grinding to flotation, leaching, smelting and refining. Solutions from Metso are designed to connect data and optimization across these stages, enabling end-to-end performance improvements instead of isolated gains.
Key benefits include higher recovery and yield, increased throughput, reduced energy consumption and more stable operations. Digital solutions also improve visibility and decision-making, helping teams run plants more efficiently and with greater predictability.
The best starting point is where variability or bottlenecks have the biggest impact, such as grinding circuits, flotation performance or process control. From there, solutions can be expanded across the plant to improve performance step by step and build a more connected, data-driven operation. Contact Metso to discuss best options for your plant.