Dialight Group says its new SafeSite® Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) linear light has been certified for use in ATEX Zone I Hazardous Areas. Already certified for use in Zone 2 Hazardous Areas as of product launch in October, the SafeSite GRP LED Linear has been designed as a highly durable and reliable low maintenance solution[…]
Pensana Rare Earths PLC has announced that it has received approval for the exploitation of the Longonjo Rare Earths Project in Angola. President Lourenço has approved the company’s subsidiary Ozango Minerals SA Mining Title, renewable up to 35-years, for the mining of rare earths at the Longonjo project located near Huambo. The key fiscal terms[…]
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Swedish mining and smelting company Boliden have signed a loan of €100 million to finance investments at the Kevitsa mine in Finnish Lapland and at the Rönnskär smelter in northern Sweden. The eight-year loan will finance the expansion of mining activities at Kevitsa in northern Finland, where copper,[…]
Flender, a global supplier of mechanical drives and a subsidiary of Siemens, has announced plans for an expansion into Western Australia. Its new state-of-the-art facility in Tonkin Highway Industrial Estate, in Bayswater, will allow the company to grow in the region, helping it meet increasing customer demand especially in the wind energy and mining sectors,[…]
BHP says it is looking into options to increase its iron ore export capacity at Port Hedland, in Western Australia, with the potential for a 40 Mt/y boost if “market conditions allow”. The company is currently focused on hitting its 290 Mt/y capacity (on a 100% basis) in the medium term, but it said it[…]
Engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company, Black & Veatch, is expanding its global environmental capabilities and services as businesses respond to increasingly complex demands from regulators, shareholders and consumers, it said. The expansion comes as companies, utilities and governments navigate a range of COVID-19 related operational challenges and a recent wave of ambitious sustainability commitments.[…]
Ucore Rare Metals says it has executed a binding share purchase agreement with Innovation Metals Corp and its shareholders that will see it acquire 100% of IMC and its RapidSX™ accelerated solvent-extraction-based separation technology. IMC is a privately held Canada-based company that has developed RapidSX for the separation and purification of critical metals including rare[…]
The three big mining equipment OEMs that come under owner Schmidt Kranz Group are currently repositioning themselves, rebranding and building up the new unified GHH Group, a new brand which now represents one of the largest suppliers of machines for mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering. The new GHH Group brand includes GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH[…]
At the Kamoa-Kakula Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the first phase of development at the Kakula Copper Mine is in many respects exceeding the published plans, says 39.6% owner and operator Ivanhoe Mines (Zijin Mining also has 39.6%). Crews now are mining and stockpiling development ore with an average grade greater than[…]
Eastgate Engineering says it has been awarded the electrical installation contract for the Woodsmith mine project, in the UK. Recently acquired by Anglo American, the Woodsmith polyhalite project, in north Yorkshire, is envisaged to be a 10 Mt/y mine with the potential to ramp up to 20 Mt/y at full production. The project will see[…]