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Sepro Mineral Systems has introduced the Sepro Pump equipment line for the mining, aggregate, chemical and industrial sectors. The company said that in line with Sepro’s vision of becoming a single source supplier of modular plant solutions, “this powerful new line of pumps for dewatering, slurry, mineral froth, tank and various sump applications provides high abrasion[…]

According to Jack Moore writing in the International Business Times, huge coal deposits have been indicated by exploration under the North Sea. Data from North Sea oil and gas exploration has been used to build a picture of the large coal deposits that could power Britain for centuries. “We think there are between three trillion[…]

In February 2014, Polish coal mining company Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka SA purchased its fourth complete Caterpillar plow longwall system. All four longwalls centre on the Cat GH1600 Plow System, the same model that Bogdanka used to set plow-equipped longwall production records in 2012. The automated plow system achieved almost 25,000 tonnes of daily production from[…]

Astec Industries has completed the $36 million acquisition of materials handling systems supplier Telestack, based located in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Telestack began operations in 1999 and specialises in the complete in-house design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of a complete line of material handling systems used extensively in the port, aggregate and mining industries. Mining customers include[…]

MineWare, is collaborating with CRCMining and the University of Queensland on an 18-month ACARP (the Australian black coal industry’s research program) project set to advance dragline operations one step closer to automation. Funded by an ACARP grant of more than A$600,000—as well as in-kind support from MineWare and CRCMining—the joint project focuses on developing and[…]

Leica GeoMoS Adjustment, the network adjustment add-on for the successful Leica GeoMoS monitoring software, is intended for use in projects where the most precise and reliable information on structural movement is required, such as underground mine drifts or open-pit slopes.. The latest version now makes adjusted data available everywhere at any time on Leica GeoMoS[…]

Skanska has been awarded a contract to build a waste water treatment plant for a confidential mining client in Peru. The project will treat residual waters to use part of them in the mining process avoiding the use of fresh river water. Skanska will be in charge of the construction of the plant and four pump[…]

The latest issue of International Mining Project News, out today, has reports on 17 prefeasibility studies, seven feasibility studies, and seven projects in development, three existing operations that are expanding, one new player and three projects that have gone into production as well as many new appointments to new positions. The report covers 24 gold projects, 11[…]

Cornerstone Sustainable Energy (CSE) has been selected as the preferred provider of power production technology to Mine-NRG. This provides CSE with preferred access to the application of heat conversion technology in underground mines, when combined with Mine-NRG’s patented technologies. The combination provides safe, sustainable power solutions to the mining industry using no combustion or other[…]

Northern Light Technologies’ (NLT) newest cap lamp, the Northern Light® Genesis, has received IS certification from MSHA for use in coal mines.  This is yet another world first from NLT- an MSHA approved cordless cap lamp with tag. The Genesis is enabled with six different WiFi and RFID tag solutions, including: