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Logistics service for the mining industry is much more than just delivering consumables
Logistics service for the mining industry is much more than just delivering consumables
Some of platinum producer Stillwater Mining’s more distant—and more difficult— stopes require expensive underhand cut-and-fill mining. A sturdy piston pump has kept the paste flowing dependably to these sites for more than a decade.
New wireless mesh network systems offer mines almost unlimited flexibility in voice and data communications. Have network security measures kept pace with expanding wireless capabilities?
Purpose-built machines move large awkward components in confined spaces
Regardless of whether it’s done in-house or by an outside organization, experts say successful fleet management starts with a basic premise: know your operation
Accuracy, speedy data analysis and process integration form the foundation of effective planning systems
E&MJ looks at an industry facing major structural issues
Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines announced on April 18, 2012, that Rio Tinto would name a new top-management team for Ivanhoe and that a number of directors of the Ivanhoe board would be replaced by Rio Tinto-nominated...
AuRico Gold announced on March 27, 2012, an agreement to sell its Stawell and Fosterville gold mines in Victoria, Australia, to Crocodile Gold for total consideration of up to C$105 million in cash and...
Galaxy Resources announced on March 30, 2012, a planned, friendly acquisition of Canada-based Lithium One for about C$112 million in Galaxy shares.
Atlantic Ltd. reported in early April 2012 that drilling and surveying in recent months at its Windimurra vanadium project in Western Australia has increased the JORC-compliant global mineral resource...
BHP Billiton announced Iron Ore President Ian Ashby is leaving BHP Billiton July 2012, after more than 25 years with the company. Ashby will be succeeded by Jimmy Wilson, currently BHP Billiton Energy...
TransAlta Corp., Canada’s largest publicly traded electricity generator, announced that it and several partners had decided to abandon the nation’s largest carbon capture and sequestration project....
CONSOL Energy announced it will re-start the longwall at its Blacksville mine on May 1.
Several major Colombain coal operators have reported progress on expanding port facilities, which is essential to meet their goals of growing production to 120 million metric tons per year (mt/y) in two...
Sandvik Mining says its newest underground trucks—the recently released TH550 and TH540—are the first in the underground mining market to offer EPA Tier 4i/Euro Stage IIIB compliant diesel engines....
MineARC Systems recently launched a new, ultra-portable refuge chamber range designed for tight underground confines such as single entry-headings and development areas: the HRM-ELVP (Hard Rock Mine—Extra...
All-Flo Pump’s All-Safe DRM (Diaphragm Rupture Management) product is now available globally, designed to alert pump operators in the event of a diaphragm rupture. The enclosed system provides two layers...
Atlas Copco says the newest addition to its heavy hydraulic breaker line, the HB 4100, provides better performance and higher efficiency than the preceding model and weighs less. According to the supplier,...
A new dust suppression device has been introduced specifically for use at conveyor discharge points, designed to create a virtual curtain around the material flow for outstanding particle containment....
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