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HILLHEAD, the UK’s working quarry exhibition, will welcome more exhibitors than ever before with both outdoor and indoor space set to expand significantly in 2018. Major industry players including Terex Group, SMT (Volvo), JCB, Komatsu, Finning, Case, Sandvik, Hyundai, Bell, Liebherr, Doosan, Atlas Copco, Bomag, Wirtgen, McCloskey, Telestack, Hitachi, Metso, Parker Plant and CDE will all[…]

ioCorp Developments Ltd reports that the State of Nebraska has conditionally approved a package of tax incentives for its Elk Creek Superalloy Project that may be worth more than $100 million over the first 10 years of the project’s commercial operation. Even with these incentives, the project is estimated to generate cumulative tax revenue to[…]

Australian heavy rare earths (HREs) developer, Northern Minerals provides a progress update on the Browns Range Pilot Plant Project, under construction in the East Kimberley region of WA, including the following achievements: • First steel in the process plant has been erected • 95% of the second shipment of equipment and modules has been delivered[…]

Capstone Mining Corp has completed the sale of its Kutcho development project to Kutcho Copper Corp (formerly Desert Star Resources Ltd). Under the terms of the agreement, Capstone received C$28.8 million in cash and 4,646,892 common shares of the newly named Kutcho Copper. The Kutcho property is located approximately 100 km east of Dease Lake[…]

ITRI reports that Canadian-listed Brazil metal explorer, developer and producer, Meridian Mining, has released a PEA and maiden resource for its Bom Futuro tailings projects, located in the state of Rondônia in Brazil. At the end of 2016, Meridian entered a joint venture with the original project owner, Coopersanta, and has since focussed on the[…]

Hummingbird Resources reports that ore commissioning has commenced at the Yanfolila gold mine in Mali. Dan Betts, CEO of Hummingbird, commented: “Ore commissioning represents the final step ahead of first gold production at Yanfolila. Everybody on site is totally focused on a smooth ramp up of the plant as we look to move into the[…]

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, has signed a three-year alumina supply agreement with Vinacomin, a Vietnamese state-owned firm. Under the agreement, Vinacomin will supply EGA with up to 300,000 t/y of alumina. The deal is the first long-term agreement to supply Vietnamese alumina[…]

Rio Tinto will expand its fleet of autonomous haul trucks at its world-class iron ore operations in the Pilbara by more than 50 per cent by 2019 after signing agreements with leading manufacturers Caterpillar Inc. and Komatsu Ltd. to convert traditional trucks to autonomous vehicles. A total of 29 Komatsu haul trucks will be retrofitted[…]

  Walter Valery, Hatch’s Global Director, Consulting and Technology, observes that “Challenging, tighter market conditions are driving the mining industry to improve productivity and reduce costs. We need to think differently. We need smarter, more selective methods that are customized to individual operations. Every stage of the process—mining, comminution, separation—needs to be looked at, optimized[…]

RPMGlobal (RPM) has today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of MinVu, a privately owned Australian headquartered group of companies and leading global provider of mine-wide operational reporting and analytics software solutions to the mining industry. “This transaction represents the 7th software acquisition RPM has undertaken in[…]