In an acquisition that Anvil International says “delivers best fire product package in the industry” Anvil, one of the largest and most complete manufacturers of pipe fittings, pipe hangers and piping support systems in the world, has acquired AFCON, a leading provider of patented fire protection pipe hangers and seismic bracing products. “This acquisition strengthens[…]
Canadian Arianne Phosphate has selected FLSmidth as key supplier for one of the world’s biggest greenfield phosphate rock projects, the Lac à Paul project in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Arianne Phosphate, a Canadian development-stage phosphate mining company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with FLSmidth to provide all production equipment and engineering for their future plant,[…]
Customers can now get immediate feedback from their equipment inspections thanks to a new mobile app being rolled out for Outotec equipment. “The app guides our service technicians through the inspection process, allowing them to capture all relevant technical data and images to support improved decision-making. As soon as the inspection is complete, the technician[…]
MinerAndina.Com reports that on the first day of CESCO Week (April 3-7) in Santiago (Chile) –a study conducted by the Comisión Nacional de Productividad (CNP) was presented, which determined a 54% labour productivity fall in the Chilean copper industry between 2000 and 2014, period in which copper production had grown 19%. “This,” MinerAndina.Com reports “is[…]
Plateau Uranium Inc has signed a non- exclusive, non-binding, Letter of Intent (LOI) with a European-based commodity trading company representing the first potential sale of a portion of future production from the company’s Macusani Plateau uranium project in southeast Peru. Indicative terms: Deliveries of 2 Mlb U3O8 over initial 5 years of production, with potential[…]
Enirgi Group Corp provides an update on the progress of the engineering and construction of its commercial scale demonstration lithium carbonate processing plant (the DXP Plant) at its flagship lithium project, the Salar del Rincón in Salta, Argentina and its on-time start-up of the first section of the plant (separation plant”) of the DXP Plant,[…]
Britain’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is engaged in research into the potential risks and benefits of exploiting deep-sea mineral resources, some of which are essential for low-carbon technology, as well as using ocean robots to estimate the environmental impact of these potential deep-sea mining activities. Late last year the NOC led an expedition on the[…]
Luck Stone, the construction aggregate division of Richmond-based (US) Luck Companies, plans to accelerate its growth in Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) technology through a new partnership with Airware, a leading global provider of commercial enterprise solutions for capturing and analyzing aerial data. Airware’s aerial technology is to be used to improve efficiency, impact business decisions.[…]
A positive attitude and a commitment to succeed are qualities that made Lynnese (Lilly) Lee-O’Donoghue stand out when it came to selecting Fortescue Metals Group’s (Fortescue) eighth CEO for a Day. Lee-O’Donoghue, a Ngarluma woman, started with Fortescue in 2013 through Fortescue’s Vocational Training and Employment Centre (VTEC) in Roebourne. On gaining full time employment,[…]
Monica Quinteiro has been appointed as the new General Manager of. She joins Boliden from a position as General Manager at LKAB in Svappavaara and will take up her new position on 21 August 2017. Quinteiro has an M.Sc. in Geotechnology from Luleå University of Technology and an M.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the Colorado[…]