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Leading mining and earthmoving equipment supplier Komatsu Australia has moved into the vocational educational field, offering a range of high-level technical, operator and management courses throughout Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It has established a new business unit, Komatsu Training Academy – a nationally registered training organisation (RTO) – to deliver vocational educational courses[…]

Metso has received an award from Minera Las Bambas for achieving the goal of zero incidents during plant shutdowns. The shutdowns took place from September 2016 to June 2017, totalling 50,000 hours of work without any incidents. “We are impressed by Metso’s commitment to ensuring safety during the shutdowns in the past year. Safety comes[…]

University of Colorado Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods. The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of Professor Alan Weimer, could vastly improve production of the strong, lightweight metal that’s used in[…]

Previous rumours have been confirmed by the recently published EPA documents that instead of its traditional induction engine, Tesla has decided to use a Permanent Magnet Motor (PMM) in its Model 3. “This means PMMs have nearly 100% market share in automotive applications – underpinning the great growth potential for NdPr,” says Peak Resources. “So[…]

Collerina Cobalt , following on from the recent successful drill program which intercepted high grade nickel, cobalt and aluminium within wide mineralised intercepts, has now commenced its metallurgical test work program aimed at initially producing a mixed cobalt‐nickel sulphide precipitate which will be further economically enhanced through the production of HPA. Approximately 45 kg of[…]

Caterpillar Inc and Rio Nuevo last week released design renderings of Caterpillar’s new 150,000 square‐foot Tucson Mining Center to be located in the Mercado District in downtown Tucson. The Tucson Mining Center, being built by the Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District, will be occupied by about 600 company engineers, product development, and support positions working[…]

Altus Strategies was admitted to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange last week. The company intends to use the net proceeds from its placing and subscription to fund further exploration across its portfolio of projects in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Morocco and Liberia, for establishing new exploration opportunities and for working capital purposes.[…]

Nick Wright of S&P Global Mining Intelligence notes that “some weakness in positive project status changes in the March quarter reflects recent signs that a perceived recovery in the mining industry struggled in the first three months of 2017. However, the number of negative milestones also declined. The slippage in reported positive project milestones was[…]

The Metallurgy & Materials Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (MetSoc of CIM) is proud to host both 2017 conferences on World Gold and Nickel-Cobalt as part of the 2017 Conference of Metallurgists (COM2017; August 27-30). The three-day conference, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, features a technical program[…]

eCobalt Solutions reports an update on its feasibility study and recently initiated pre-construction activities on its 100% owned Idaho Cobalt Project (ICP) in anticipation of final FS receipt expected later in September. The ICP is the only near term, environmentally permitted and primary cobalt project located in the USA.  In 2016 eCobalt commissioned the FS[…]