
Products to support your operations across the mining life cycle
Univar Solutions delivers operational value by offering a broad portfolio of products and services with a distribution network that’s second to none.
Companies in the mining industry choose Univar Solutions because we understand that each mining customer is different, with unique goals and needs. Our knowledgeable experts serve as your trusted advisor from pit to port and can customize the right products and services to support your operations across the mining life cycle.
Products for mining, mineral and metals
+ Ore extraction products
- Explosive additives
- Antifreeze, drilling methanol or calcium chloride
+ Heavy equipment products
- POWERGUARD™ D4 EcoClean® (Diesel fuel additive)
- Antifreeze, heavy duty engine - CAFLON
- Grease
- Lubricants
- Road & runway dedust, road stabolization
- Airplane deicing fluid
+ Pumping, shipping, and storage aids
- Antifreeze, stock pile (Vansurf DICE)
- Antifreeze, conveyor belt
- Dedust agents
- Viscosity modifiers - lignon based
- Defoamers
+ Grinding
- Grinding media - steel rods and balls
- Grinding media - ultrafine ceramic media
- Grinding aids
+ Mineral recovery/ Solvent extraction
- Leaching acids - sulphuric, HCL
- CCD coag & floc - VANFLOC
- Diluent - VAN-SOL
- Specialty alcohols
- Extractants - SOLVEXX
- Extractants - amine based
- Oxidants - peroxides & chlorates
- pH modifiers - lime & bicarbonate
- SXEW - acid mist reducer VANMIST
- SXEW smoothing agents
- SXEW - cobalt sulphate
- Zinc dust
- Filter press additive - Vanwet FP6000
+ Mineral recovery/ Flotation
- Frother specialty - VANFROTH
- Frother MIBC
- Frother pine oil
- Collector specialty - VANCOL
- Collectors - xanthates Collector amines -VANCOL TAP
- Collector fatty acid
- Collector oils
- Depressants specialty - VANPRESS
- Depresants starches
- Depressants synthetic - MD506
- Depressants guar, CMC, dextrin
- Drying aid - VANDRI
+ Gold mineral processing - CIL and CIP
- Coconut shell carbon - PICAGOLD
- Copper sulphate
- Lead chloride
- Lead nitrate
- Litharge
- Lignin sulfonate
- Sodium cyanide
- Sulphur dioxide
- SMBS
- Flux chemicals
+ Mineral recovery activators, modifiers and dispersants
- Silicates - floatsil
- Surfactants - VANWET
- Soda ash
- Sodium ferrocyanide
- Sodium fluoride
- Sodium hydroxide
- Sodium metasilicates
- Sodium silicates
- Sodium sulfide
- Sodium sulfite
- Sodium zinc cyanide
- Specialty and commodity activators
- Sulfuric acid
- Surfactants
- Tall oil
- Thionocarbamates
- Zinc sulfate
+ Smelter chemicals
- Absorbents
- Acids
- Activated alumina
- Activated carbon
- Ammonium chloride
- Antimony potassium tartrate
- Arsenic trioxide
- Barium carbonate
- Bone glue
- Borax
- Caustic soda
- Copper arsenate
- Copper sulfate
- Custom blends
- Fluorspar
- Lead chloride
- Manganese dioxide
- Mineral oils
- Mold release agents
- Silica gel
- Silica sand
- Soda ash
- Sodium nitrate
- Sodium silicates
- Strontium carbonate
- Sulfamic acid
- Sulfur
- Thiourea
- Zinc dust
+ Electrolytic refining chemicals
- Absorbents
- Ammonium chloride
- Manganese dioxide
- Organic sulfonates
- Potassium carbonate
- Potassium permanganate
- Strontium carbonate
+ Water treatment
- Antiscalants - VANQUEST
- Antifoam
- Barium salts
- Biocides
- Chlorine - liquid and granular
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Flocculants - VANFLOC
- Coagulants - organic
- Coagulants - inorganic
- Carbon - bituminous, lignite, coconut shell carbon
- Diatomaceous earth
- Ion exchange resins
- RO membranes & filters
- RO cleaners
- RO antiscalants
- Scale remover - VANFLOW
- Potassium permanganate
+ HVAC and powerhouse
- Antifreeze glycols - VANFROST
- Instrument air desiccant - activated alumina
- Descalants - VANFLOW
- Salt
+ Finished product additives
- Crystal growth modifiers
- Alkyl aryl sulfonates
- Pelletizing aids
- Anticaking agents - stearates, phosphates
- Anticaking agents - sod ferrocyanide
- Antidust products
+ Basic chemicals
- Sulphur chemistry
- Acids - formic, citric, acid, HCL, sulphuric
- Alkasis- soda ash, caustic soda, lime, pot hydroxide
- Acid magic (safer acid)