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Marnie Pascoe is Director, Geotechnical Manager, Principal Geotechnical Engineer with AMC Consultants. She has been working in Kazakhstan (as pictured) and has provided this interesting report. The country is the largest of the Central-Asian states that were formally part of the USSR. “It is famous as the host for the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which at present,[…]

Reliable Metso N SeriesTM NSPTM briquetting presses turn steel, aluminium, cast iron and other metals into a compact form for easier handling and more convenient transporting. Firmly packed, high-density briquettes increase metal recovery by enabling more accurate metering and reducing burn-off during melting. The efficient, single-ram presses are equipped with a constant feeding system and[…]

Penspen, a global provider of engineering and project management services to the energy industry, has been awarded a nine-month contract extension by Antofagasta Minerals to provide pipeline integrity management systems (PIMS) for Minera Los Pelambres copper mine, the fifth largest in the world. Penspen was first employed to work on the project – located at[…]

Belo Sun Mining Corp has awarded FLSmidth the first phase of an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the Volta Grande gold project located on the Xingu River, some 50 km southwest of Altamira in Pará State, Brazil. The contract includes the completion of basic engineering, selection of construction contractors and the execution planning[…]

David Moult, CEO & MD, Centennial Coal provided the first Austmine networking session of 2017 last week. The event was sponsored by Joy Global and Akzo Nobel, and the audience first heard from Jason Savage, President Australia at Joy Global and Kriben Thambiran, Project Manager – Northern, at Akzo Nobel. Moult has been with Centennial[…]

Ecoult, Sydney (Australia) based energy storage company, has been awarded A$4.1 million in funding from the Advanced Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support further development and innovation necessary to transition to a renewables based economy. The new funding through ARENA’s Advancing Renewables Program, will enable Ecoult to develop its solar battery monitoring and management systems[…]

All the citations for the 2016 inductees to the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame are to be found at https://im-mining.com/2016-inductees/. Read all about Rainer Kahrger (Bulk Handling), Joe Pease and Dr Bill Johnson (Comminution, sponsored by Gekko), Dr D.R. Nagaraj (Concentration), Dr John Groom (Environmental Management and Stewardship), Duncan Crone (Exploration), Dr Terry Wiles (Mining[…]

Colm Quinn, APR Energy Africa Spokesperson, notes that one of the themes at the recent Mining Indaba early this month revolved around power supply to mines on the continent. With official power distribution grids only covering around 40% of Africa, a substantial number of mining operations are responsible for their own power generation. “Even mines[…]

The 227 ct Type IIa D-colour stone is the biggest diamond recovered at the large diamond recovery circuit at the Lulo mine to date and Angola’s second largest diamond on record. This recent recovery is the latest tale in the success story of TOMRA´s X-ray transmission (XRT) sorting technology. The diamond is not only the[…]

Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded a US patent for a company-developed method to measure water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils. The patent is Method of measuring water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils, patent no. US9500638.[…]