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The Development Partner Institute (DPI) was established in December 2016 and announced its launch at the 2017 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention on March 5. Its mission is to facilitate a shift in the mining industry’s extractive business model towards a more integrated and proactive development partnership approach. The DPI was formed[…]

In its regular Hunt Mining Herald newsletter, mining company Hunt Mining Corp says the mining industry is in the Argentine spotlight this week—with a landmark agreement ready to take centre stage. Argentina’s annual Arminera mining exhibition is an annual congregation of the country’s primary players, and will show off the industry’s latest advances in technology,[…]

Demand for heavy mining, earthmoving and construction equipment has staged a rebound in the 15 months leading up to the end of last year, according to accounting giant EY and reported in The West Australian. The paper said the EY 2017 Yellow Goods report noted a 41% recovery in the Australian mining fleet value index[…]

This year will see CDE complete a multi-million materials washing project in Tunisia for the glass industry with new client SMETRAM. A subsidiary of giant Sebri Group, SMETRAM has been exploiting sand quarries in Tunisia since 2001 to serve the national market, and typically the concrete and ceramic industries. Innovative and visionary, SMETRAM decided the time[…]

At the annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) on April 30, 2017, Roy Slack, P.Eng. was announced as the Incoming President Elect of the CIM. Slack said “It is an honour to be nominated and appointed to this position and it is a great opportunity to give back[…]

In a statement released ahead of the AIMEX Mining Exhibition from 29-31 August in Sydney, Australia, the organisers state: “The mining industry has experienced a number of challenges over recent times but these challenges have born new ways of operating for mining companies and the suppliers who service them. For mining companies, soaring operating costs[…]

Peter J. Bryant, Managing Partner of Clareo and Board Chair, Development Partner Institute, recently attended the PDAC in Toronto, and wrote an article about the necessity for innovation after meeting with more than 25 international mining ministers. Bryant attended PDAC 2017 to launch the transformative Development Partner Institute, of which he is the Board Chair,[…]

Komatsu America Corp, a subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd, has completed its acquisition of Joy Global Inc, a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions. Retaining its headquarters in Milwaukee, Joy Global will be renamed Komatsu Mining Corp and operate as a subsidiary of Komatsu. The company says it will continue to promote and invest in the[…]

Australian miners should consider collaborating with other industries for critical innovations if they are not already, says Dr Craig Stegman, Rio Tinto’s Vice President, Operational and Technical Support, Copper and Diamonds. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of Dr Stegman’s appearance at the Austmine 2017: Mining’s Innovation Imperative conference from May 22-24, the Rio Tinto leader[…]

It was very interesting and great fun for me (John Chadwick) to be a judge of the Move Mining competition at the SME Annual Conference last week. We judges were tasked with considering the industry’s public image at this stage in the cycle, and five ideas to improve that image. Congratulations to SME for organising[…]