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ICMM has welcomed Antofagasta Minerals and Glencore as members. Their respective chief executive officers, Diego Hernández and Ivan Glasenberg, were welcomed at the latest meeting of ICMM’s Council of CEOs in Miami on Wednesday May 14. “We are delighted to have Antofagasta and Glencore join ICMM,” said Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American and[…]

Boart Longyear has introduced the new S250-M3 rock drill. “The S250-M3’s advanced noise suppression and lower vibration represents a significant improvement over the existing S250 rock drill,” the company says. This advancement improves drilling production and decreases the fatigue to ears, hands, and feet. The main airflow cylinder channel and the exhaust of the S250-M3 have been[…]

Caterpillar and Cat® dealers now offer Cat Certified Rebuild Upgrade (CCRU) services for older 785 and 789 large mining trucks. The rebuild program for the original series and the B Series models of these trucks incorporates the technological advancements introduced with the C Series to improve operation and performance and reduce engine emissions. The CCRU[…]

Metso has signed an 18-month services contract with Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine, covering the changing of components for 33 ball mills currently operating in the A0 and A1 plants. The work will involve changing the pinion-gear assembly as well as repairs to the shell. Metso will repair two mills per month and also take care of[…]

The latest issue of International Mining Project News, out today, has reports on 22 prefeasibility studies, two feasibility studies, and 12 projects in development, two existing operations that are expanding, and five project that have gone into production as well as many new appointments to new positions. The report covers 16 gold projects, seven copper projects, six[…]

KGHM – which says it is the “world’s largest silver and eighth biggest copper producer” – has started filling the seawater pipeline and pool at its Sierra Gorda mine in Chile. The water is captured from the cooling systems at a thermal electricity plant in Mejillones and is transported through a 142.6 km pipeline. Securing[…]

With an attendance of over 150 people, including local officials, board members, customers and suppliers, ME Elecmetal inaugurated a new mill liners plant in the city of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on May, 2014. The plant, designed for an annual production capacity of 30,000 t of steel liners involved an investment of $45 million and[…]

Australian miners consider availability of replacement parts to be the most important criterion when choosing an equipment supplier, a new report finds. In a recent survey of over 110 mine managers, maintenance managers, procurement managers and other key decision-makers currently working in over 90 Australian mines, “availability of replacement parts” was one of the top[…]

A logistics tour de force sees six allflux® fluidised bed separators on their way from Poland to the Pilbara region of Western Australia . A new wet processing plant to be set up by mid-2015 to is set to expand a Pilbara mine’s capacity to 56 Mt/y. At the core of the ore beneficiation plant[…]

Rubicon Minerals is an advanced-stage gold development company focused on the environmentally sustainable development of its high-grade Phoenix Gold Project in Red Lake, Ontario. Gekko Systems is supplying a complete turnkey Cyanide Detox System, designed to reduce cyanide in the plant discharge to less than 1 ppm weak acid dissociable (WAD) cyanide using liquid sulphur[…]