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Global seals and bearings supplier SKF states that its new @ptitude Connect software solution “gives engineers easy access to a cost-effective cloud computing resource for condition monitoring software that will improve plant efficiency.”SKF @ptitude Connect enables operations to implement plant-wide or enterprise-wide Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and/or Predictive Maintenance (PdM) program via the internet. Using[…]

Nautilus Minerals and Papua New Guinea have signed an agreement enabling the Solwara 1 project  to move forward toward production with the full support of the PNG state. Under the agreement, PNG will take an initial 15% interest in the project. The state has the option to take up to a further 15% interest within[…]

Roobuck has released its state of the art LED headlight/work light – Bucklite, which is especially designed for underground mining vehicles. It has a brass enclosure and LED light source in a flameproof casing. It is under IECEx certification by TestSafe.

Last week, at Expomin in Santiago, Chile, IM attended a special event celebrating the launch of ME Elecmetal’s ME FIT (Fully Integrated Technology) System. Aimed at boosting SAG and ball mill grinding performance, this is an optimised mill liner and grinding media system, bringing together consulting, products, services, people, logistics and manufacturing all in one.

Last week the World Coal Association (WCA) announced that Xcoal Energy & Resources and the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) had joined the association. Xcoal closely follows the addition of Whitehaven Coal in February this year and broadens WCA’s ever-growing, global network of major coal producers, national coal associations and other non-profit bodies with an interest in[…]

In America last week, SME participated in meetings with staff of the House Financial Services Committee to discuss ongoing problems with the SEC’s mineral reserves disclosure reporting requirements for US mining companies, better known as Industry Guide 7.

A new SME publication explains processing methods. The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) has announced the availability of Beneficiation of Phosphate Ore. This new publication examines various methods for processing phosphate rock. Phosphoric acid has a wide variety of uses such as the production of fertilisers, pharmaceuticals and detergents. It is also used[…]

BMT WBM (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has completed an independent expert review of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan (EMMP) for the proposed Woodlark Island Gold Project, situated in the maritime province of Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea.

As Siemens Drive Technologies Division celebrates 500 years of gearless mill drive operation (combined total of installations) it is delivering the gearless drive technology for two new mills for the Toromocho mine in the Peruvian province of Yauli. The order comes from Minera Chinalco Perú, a subsidiary of Aluminum Corp of China (CHINALCO).

Tenova TAKRAF Africa has been awarded two contracts by South Africa’s leading cement producer, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), to supply reverse pulse bagfilters to replace existing  electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) at PPC’s slurry facility near Mahikeng, North West Province, and its De Hoek cement plant in the Western Cape.  Tenova TAKRAF Africa is part of the[…]