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BHP Billiton last week celebrated the official opening of its new Jimblebar iron ore mine located some 40 km east of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. BHP Billiton President Iron Ore Jimmy Wilson, was joined by the Premier of Western Australia, the Hon. Colin Barnett, and joint venture participants ITOCHU and Mitsui[…]

CSIRO and its industry partners plan to trial the Direct Injection Carbon Engine (DICE) in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, the second largest and lowest cost brown coal resource in the world, with the aim of reducing emissions from brown coal-generated electricity by 50% compared to current technology. Brown Coal Innovation Australia (BCIA) has allocated A$1 million[…]

Exportadora del Sal SA (ESSA) operates large sea water salt evaporation ponds not far from the city of Guerrero Negro in Western Mexico. The salt level “grows” by about 20 cm over the course of one year. The resulting salt crust needs to be harvested with great precision to allow for a maximum salt yield,[…]

Global Resource Engineering (GRE) has merged with Lane and Associates, creating what it describes as a “worldclass mine consulting company.” After growing more than 600% from 2010 to 2012, the merger further expands the skills and expertise GRE provides clients worldwide.

MOBA Mobile Automation AG has acquired a further 24% stake in the Finish excavator system manufacturer Novatron Oy and now holds 49% in total. Novatron, a family business based in Finland with subsidiaries in Norway and Sweden, has more than 20 years of experience in the development and production of control and measuring technologies. With Xsite[…]

RADWIN, a global provider of sub-6 GHz broadband wireless solutions, has had its RADWIN 2000 high-capacity point-to-point solutions chosen and deployed by Semirara Mining Corp – the largest coal mine in the Philippines. The mine is using RADWIN 2000 systems to create a private network to provide voice and data services to offices scattered across[…]

A University of Adelaide mineralogy researcher has discovered a previously unknown mineral that is unique in structure and composition among the world’s 4,000 known mineral species. Published in Mineralogical Magazine, Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Dr Peter Elliott has described ‘putnisite’, found in a surface outcrop at Lake Cowan,[…]

El Capitan Precious Metals is buying a heavy metals separation system from AuraSource. This will be used to separate hematite and magnetite from other ore elements in the El Capitan ore. According to management, the AuraSource process leaves a rich concentrate for additional processing that will further be used by El Capitan to extract the precious[…]

In 2013, Loesche Latinoamericana SAU signed a contract with Societe Le Nickel- SLN, part of the ERAMET group, for the design and delivery of a new coal grinding plant to be installed in the nickel production plant already operating in Nouméa, New Caledonia. Doniambo – Le Nickel-SLN selected the vertical mill technology from LOESCHE for[…]

Sandvik has announced the appointed of Scot Smith as President of Sandvik Mining, replacing Gary Hughes, the current President, who will assume the position of Head of Sales and Marketing for the same business area. Sandvik stated that in his new role, Hughes “will use his extensive experience to maintain a dedicated focus on further[…]