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On March 19, 2018, Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin and Fenner PLC announced that they had reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition pursuant to which Michelin would acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Fenner by means of a court sanctioned scheme of arrangement under Part[…]

Downer’s Mineral Technologies business has signed a contract with the Egyptian Black Sands Company to provide a comprehensive suite of equipment, engineering design and support services for the development of the first mineral sands operation in Egypt. As only the second mineral processing operation in the country, this signing marks a historic occasion. In 2006[…]

IMCRC is a partner in a new research alliance with Downer, through its Mineral Technologies business, and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Rapido – advanced technology development unit. Together they will cooperatively research solutions that will revolutionise how composite polymers are used to manufacture mineral separation equipment and create new manufacturing technologies. Additive manufacturing (AM),[…]

Boart Longyear Drilling Services recently completed a 90-day drilling program in Canada for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd – Albian Sands (CNRL) at the Jackpine and Muskeg River mines. The Boart Longyear crews drilled a total of 218 holes averaging depths of 80 m per hole with a total metre count of ~18,000 m. This was[…]

Roskill reports that ASX-listed Rift Valley Resources is targeting the Longonjo carbonatite in Angola for rare earth exploration, after publishing a maiden monazite (80%) and bastnaesite (20%) rare earth Inferred Resource in September 2017. The combined Inferred Resource is 44.7 Mt at 2.5% total rare-earth oxides (TREO), including a “from-surface” resource of 11.6 Mt at[…]

We will be closing the nominations for the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame in August. Do you know of someone who has contributed an important innovation or invention, recent or historic, to concentration – ore sorting, flotation, etc.? Contact [email protected] about nominations. The chosen nominees will be inducted at the International Mining Technology Hall[…]

Guyana Goldfields Inc announces that it has signed an open pit contract mining agreement with STRACON GyM International in order to meet higher waste stripping requirements through to the end of 2021 as forecasted in its optimised life of mine plan. STRACON is a leading world class contractor focused on open pit and underground mining[…]

Diamond mining giant ALROSA at its division Severalmaz has tested unmanned aerial vehicles – a quadcopter and an airplane – for mine surveying of land objects of Lomonosov Mining and Processing Division. Preliminary estimates show that the use of unmanned technologies provides high survey accuracy, increases the speed and safety of work. Geoscan 401 Geodesy[…]

We will be closing the nominations for the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame in August. Do you know of someone who has contributed an important innovation or invention, recent or historic, to comminution – crushing, grinding or screening, etc.? Contact [email protected] about nominations. The chosen nominees will be inducted at the International Mining Technology[…]

The 2017 CEEC Medal highlighted that a novel ore pre-concentration technique developed by the SMI-JKMRC of The University of Queensland has the potential to significantly reduce comminution and energy requirements and, thereby, improve mineral production costs. The global mining industry is facing challenges of decreased ore grade, increased processing capacity requirements and higher operational costs[…]