News Archive

October 2008
31 Oct 2008
The top ten world’s worst pollution problems report
The Blacksmith Institute, in collaboration with Green Cross Switzerland, recently released a report titled The...
31 Oct 2008
Diamonds – newsflow still gloomy
This gloomy conclusion comes from RBC Capital Markets Equity Research saying "the past month has...
30 Oct 2008
HudBay named Manitoba’s 2008 Outstanding Large Business
HudBay Minerals has been named Manitoba's 2008 Outstanding Large Business by the Manitoba Chambers of...
30 Oct 2008
Miners and farmers sign agreement
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) and the Minerals Council of Australia, Victorian Division (MCA) have...
29 Oct 2008
Alcoa wins award for carbon capture technology
Alcoa's Kwinana alumina refinery in Australia was recognised for excellence in the Australian mining industry,...
28 Oct 2008
Golden Star Resources wins Nedbank Capital Green award
Golden Star Resources (GSR) was recently awarded a prestigious Nedbank Capital Green Mining award in recognition...
28 Oct 2008
Designing slurry pipeline systems
In March, Paterson & Cooke will give two presentations of their annual course on the...
28 Oct 2008
Fortescue urges co-operation in the Pilbara
Following yesterday's announcement on the government decision to enforce a sharing of rail infrastructure in...
28 Oct 2008
Indian steel expansion continues
Metso will supply bulk materials handling equipment to Heavy Engineering Corp (HEC) for its material...
27 Oct 2008
Global meeting of Outotec’s copper and nickel Flash Smelting licensees in China
The world's copper and nickel smelting experts meet this week in Shanghai, China at the...
27 Oct 2008
Free for all on Pilbara rail lines
Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan today accepted a recommendation from the National Competition Council (NCC)...
26 Oct 2008
Intellection wins export award
Intellection was announced as the winner of the inaugural Tom Burns Award, established last year...