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Rio Tinto will gift its 19.1% shareholding in Northern Dynasty Minerals, owner of the Pebble project, to two local Alaskan charitable foundations. The decision follows the strategic review announced last year of Rio Tinto’s interest in Northern Dynasty which concluded the Pebble project does not fit with Rio Tinto’s strategy. The shares in Northern Dynasty[…]

We are preparing the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame induction event news for publication. Edmund Longyear was an inductee and, always looking forward, Longyear’s company continues its innovative path. Just after the event, the world’s leading provider of integrated drilling services, equipment and performance tooling, expanded its line of underground LM™ modular diamond drill rigs[…]

CRCMining has developed world-leading capability to optimise equipment selection, bucket design and sizing, based on characterising dig conditions and machine performance, with sophisticated expertise in investigating and improving the performance of materials handling systems. Truck and shovel haulage systems typically operate well below their potential capacity, significantly impairing the productivity of load and haul mining[…]

China is planning to close down nearly 2,000 small coal mines this year as part of its push to stamp out the production of low quality coal, Australian Mining reports. “High levels of air pollution and more stringent environmental standards have led to the move. Reuters reports old and depleted mines in the country’s east[…]

Wade Walker’s recent contract award by Alstom for work packages on the Kusile Wet Flue Gas Desulphurisation (WFGD) project has given the company an opportunity to again put its ASGISA (Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa) principles into practice. Alstom is responsible for the entire WFGD installation on Kusile. Wade Walker is responsible[…]

In its JUNE 2014 issue, International Mining will feature its annual article on MINING CHEMICALS: enabling better thickening, dust suppression, water purification, environmental cleanup, mineral extraction and equipment maintenance. Key groups of chemicals are crucial for these tasks. Please let me have editorial contributions for consideration for inclusion in the article. I am looking for[…]

Wenco International Mining Systems has announce a contract with Imperial Metals to supply the Mount Polley mine with the Wenco Fleet Management System and Mobile Supervisor Terminals. Mount Polley is an open pit copper/gold mine with a developing underground project, located in south-central British Columbia. The mine began operations in 1997 and currently processes 20,000[…]

Booyco Electronics’ Collision Warning System (CWS) has provided the local and African mining industry with a cost effective and efficient way of increasing employee safety. The system effectively reduces downtime by eliminating collisions between vehicles, as well as collisions between vehicles and pedestrians. Pending legislation from the Department of Mineral Resources on the compulsory implementation[…]

Atlas Copco plans to move the operations of two of its mining equipment production facilities in Sweden to its competence center in Örebro. The aim is to increase efficiency and strengthen the company for the future. “We have a great product portfolio and tremendous skills that we are now planning to add to our competence center[…]

DRDGOLD has temporarily suspended its recently constructed high grade section – a flotation circuit, a set of fine-grind mills and the cyanide leach and CIP circuit – to determine the cause of  metallurgical problems that have led to lower than expected gold production for Q3 FY14. Although the new FFG technology, introduced to liberate more[…]