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According to a report in southeast Europe news agency SeeNews, a unit of Chinese group JCHX Mining Management has signed a 252.8 million yuan ($37.5 million) contract with Serbian miner Rakita Exploration for the construction of a gold and copper mine, part of the huge Timok project in eastern Serbia. The contract was signed by[…]

sensemetrics, the Industrial IoT (IIoT) company that transforms sensor data into real-time situational awareness, active risk management and safety solutions and i-IoT Solutions have announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement under sensemetrics Global Strategic Alliance Member Program. Under the agreement, i-IoT Solutions will be offering the sensemetrics end-to-end solution to industries such[…]

SGS announces that it has officially incorporated the TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyser (TIMA-X) into its suite of automated mineralogy offerings across Canada. Through this move, SGS says it is able to offer its clients better detection limits, superior imaging and faster turnaround time and results. “Combining TIMA-X technology with our existing QEMSCAN capabilities, allows us[…]

Johnson Matthey has introduced an advanced system to control emissions from diesel underground mining equipment for healthier work environments. Mines can be challenging environment for operators looking to achieve high standards of health and safety. Emissions form part of the problem, with confined spaces meaning workers can be intimately exposed to high levels of ultrafine[…]

The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has awarded the consortium of Outotec and Larsen & Toubro with an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a greenfield mineral concentrator and gold processing plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Finland-based company says. The order, worth some €140 million ($157 million) to Outotec, is almost[…]

Maestro Digital Mine has used the backdrop of the CIM Convention and Exhibition, in Montreal, Quebec, to launch its latest digital industrial internet of things (IIoT) solution, the Zephyr AQS™. Maestro’s Zephyr AQS is a compact, low cost environmental air quality monitoring station for underground mines. It is an IIoT device that connects directly to[…]

Rio Tinto has chosen FLSmidth to supply key minerals handling equipment for the company’s Koodaideri iron ore project in Western Australia, the mining OEM says. The contract is a turnkey agreement for the design, supply, installation and commissioning for the new greenfield iron ore mine. “FLSmidth will provide the products and know-how that will be[…]

TLT-Turbo Africa has been awarded the contract for the supply and installation of a turnkey solution for underground ventilation and fumes extraction at the Ivanhoe Mines’ majority-owned Kamoa-Kakula copper project, some 25 km outside of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The contract was awarded by Kamoa Copper SA, which forms part of the[…]

The Polymetal Amursk POX plant has become the second gold production operation in Russia and FSU which has been certified as being in full compliance with the International Cyanide Management Code (Cyanide Code) as both a gold mining company and separately as a cyanide transporter by the International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI). Polymetal became a[…]

Orica, a leading manufacturer of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems, says it has now produced 100 million electronic detonators out of its manufacturing facility in Brownsburg, Canada. The milestone Electronic Blasting Systems (EBS) detonator rolled off the production line on April 30. Orica, Vice President, EBS, Adam Mooney, said: “Reaching the 100-million-mark demonstrates our[…]