Congratulations are due to the team at Agnico Eagle Kittilä’s Water Treatment Plant in Finland – winners of this year’s Michel Letourneau Award, which celebrates achievements in teamwork, productivity improvements, cost control, innovation, accident prevention and health and safety. Those themes are reflected in an ongoing campaign at Kittilä that encourages employee suggestions on how[…]
Germany’s FAM, the global supplier of bulk materials handling solutions for mining including bucketwheel excavators, stackers, reclaimers, spreaders, leachpad systems and in-pit crushing & conveying installations says its remains on an expansion course and has recently increased its capacity by opening a new office in India, the seventh largest country in the world in terms[…]
Tenova TAKRAF is a highly specialised supplier of machines and services in the fields of mining, materials handling and minerals processing. As such, it boasts a large base of installed machines that daily generate valuable data from which it can gain information regarding optimisation of design, operation and maintenance or even troubleshooting. In a recent[…]
Integrated risk management company, Sphera has entered into an agreement to acquire Stuttgart, Germany-based thinkstep in a deal that could see the creation of an “all-encompassing sustainability, health, safety, risk and product stewardship platform”. In recent years, thinkstep, a software consulting services company specialising in corporate sustainability and product stewardship, successfully transformed its business model[…]
First Quantum Minerals in its second quarter 2019 results gave an update on the Cobre Panama project, where production ramped up significantly with pre-commercial copper production of 30,896 t in the quarter, on track to produce 140,000 –175,000 t of copper as previously guided for the year. The first concentrate was shipped in June which[…]
Venture Minerals’ plan to restart mining at the Riley iron ore project in Tasmania, Australia, is accelerating with the announcement that the ASX-listed company has awarded Shaw Contracting the preferred tenderer status for mining and processing works at the operation. One of Tasmania’s most experienced civil and mining contractors, Shaw previously worked with Venture when[…]
RPMGlobal says, over the last 50 years, its consulting division has clocked up over 16,000 mining studies, with its software segment registering more than 4,500 global users. With the organisation celebrating 50 years of delivering consulting and advisory services to the global mining industry, it said it has grown into the largest publicly traded independent[…]
Superior Industries Inc says it is ready to show off an expanded South America presence at the upcoming CONEXPO Latin America event, in Santiago, Chile. A US-based manufacturer of bulk material processing and handling systems, the company recently added three manufacturing facilities to its South America base through the acquisition of Parcan Group, a 40-year-old[…]
Hawk Measurement America and FLO-CORP have agreed to merge in a deal that will bring together leading manufacturers and suppliers of advanced process instrumentation and cloud-based monitoring technology. The combined entity is now a complete flow, level, and asset monitoring solutions provider, the companies said. Over the past three decades, both companies have worked to[…]
GIW Industries says its recent success with a customer at a Panama copper mine bodes well for the future of copper mining in Central America and the pump manufacturer’s potential for business in this area and beyond. The Panama copper mine customer needed to ensure continuous and efficient operation of its mine and, according to[…]