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Boart Longyear will present the advantages of sonic drilling over conventional surface drilling during MINExpo International 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, from September 26 to 28. It says its drillers “are the industry’s most experienced in sonic drilling”, which dates back to the 1990s. Its LS™250 MiniSonic™ rig, which is proving to be the ideal[…]

At MINExpo, Blasch Precision Ceramics will launch of Verkapse™ — a turnkey solution consisting of polyurethane encased ceramic for applications involving hydrocyclone separators and other mineral processing equipment. Until now, this encapsulation was completed by a subcontractor using inserts sourced from ceramic manufacturers. “Leveraging Blasch’s decades of molding experience coupled with significant advancements in CNC[…]

Mining Indaba (February 6-9, 2017) noted these key news items last week. West Africa took the lead again with news that the regional stock exchange, the Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres, plans to start a separate section for mining stocks by 2018 – a move aimed at making it easier for resources companies to raise[…]

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty, Ltd (CUGM) has acquired the intellectual property of underground articulated truck designs from Ground Force Worldwide. This agreement will provide Caterpillar with additional design options in the 20 t and smaller payload class. The Ground Force AT18E (18 t payload ejector) and AT20 (20 t payload) remain available for immediate order[…]

The next generation of downstream processing has arrived in the resource rich Pilbara region of Western Australia with the official opening of the Yara Pilbara Nitrates technical ammonium nitrate (TAN) manufacturing plant. The plant, developed in joint venture by Orica Ltd and Yara International ASA, will have capacity to produce 330,000 t/y of ammonium nitrate[…]

Focus FS, a leading provider of industrial worksite systems, has announced the release of its latest software product, Shift Rescue. The announcement happened during the 10th International Mine Rescue Competition (IMRC), hosted by Workplace Safety North and Ontario Mine Rescue, which took place this week in Sudbury, Ontario. Shift Rescue is an all-in-one under oxygen mine rescue[…]

Making operations efficient, cost effective, sustainable and productive is what any supplier to the mining industry aims to achieve, especially during a commodity down cycle. While earthmoving and surface mining machinery is critical to mines, the use of chemical energy is a key approach to driving operational efficiencies. Simon Tose, Optimisation Manager at AEL Mining[…]

Grafoid Inc, a world leading graphene research, application development and investment company, announces the Australian patent office, IP Australia, has ruled on the validity of a process that converts raw graphite ore to graphene. This is the second time a national government has ruled on the validity of the patent application. The first was the[…]

Given the tight relationship between the fortunes of the global economy and that of the global metals and mining industry, it does not bode well that fewer than half of the senior metals executives responding to the survey which is reflected in the KPMG International’s 2016 Global Metals & Mining Outlook” voice any level of[…]

Lucara Diamond Corp will be installing more of the highly successful XRT technology to process finer size fractions at its Karowe mine in Botswana. The project, through the installation of four new XRT diamond recovery units and the associated conveying and screening infrastructure, will target the recovery of diamonds in the size range between 4[…]