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PHIL has offered a tailgate calculator for years, showing clients and potential clients the type of efficiency they can expect when they add a tailgate to their haul truck. To make the process easier, PHIL has just released a spreadsheet, allowing you to plug in just a little information about your truck fleet and it[…]

Outotec has signed a contract with Norilsk Nickel for the delivery of minerals processing technology and equipment to the second phase expansion of the Talnakh copper-nickel concentrator in the Krasnoyarsky Region in Russia. The value of comparable deliveries is typically €60-80 million. Outotec will deliver a fully automated flotation complex with performance guarantees including Outotec TankCell®[…]

Yingli Energy (China) Co, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy Holding Co, the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer in the world, known as Yingli Solar, has entered an agreement to establish a joint venture with Shuozhou Coal Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Datong Coal Mine Group Co, which is China’s third largest[…]

After its transportation from the factory in Australia to the mine site located in Argentina, Terratec’s TR2000 raise boring machine commenced operations at the mine site in September 2013. Since then the machine has already achieved big advances in its initial months of operation. The raise borer was procured by Minera Santa Cruz, affiliated to Hochschild Mining,[…]

Prof Alban Lynch will unfortunately not be able to attend his induction in the comminution category in Salt Lake City in February, but he wrote to John Chadwick with some comments. “I am honoured to be elected to join such a distinguished group of inventors and engineers. I would love to be able to attend the[…]

BNamericas reports that “a group of Chilean lawmakers has submitted a draft bill to congress to change the country’s mining law to make the use of desalinated water obligatory in mining processes, the lower house said in a press release.” The bill will oblige all mining companies that have water rights of over 150 litres/s[…]

Leighton Holdings, which claims to be the world’s largest contract miner, has agreed to purchase the Welspun Group’s 39.9% stake in its Indian-based joint venture, Leighton Welspun for $99 million to achieve 100% ownership of this business. Leighton will rename the business Leighton India. It will continue to report through Leighton Asia, India and Offshore[…]

Boart Longyear, the world’s leading integrated exploration drilling services, equipment and performance tooling provider, has received the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) David Barr Award for its proactive commitment to health and safety. The David Barr Award is given annually by the AME BC Health and Safety Committee for excellence in leadership[…]

Polyus Gold International, the largest gold producer in Russia, has decided, in light of the challenging market conditions, to re-sequence the development of the Natalka project (to be Russia’s largest gold mine) and delay the launch of the plant to summer 2015 from the previously announced target of summer 2014. Although it is operationally possible[…]

Northparkes copper and gold mine is entering a new era with Rio Tinto handing over its 80% interest in the Northparkes joint venture to China Molybdenum Co (CMOC) in December. The milestone was celebrated onsite with special guests from CMOC, Rio Tinto, Joint Venture Partners Sumitomo Metal Mining Oceania and Sumitomo Corp Mineral Resource, government[…]