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As part of its global expansion plan for its industry leading service centre network, Metso is to build a state-of-the-art service and repair facility in Mesa, Arizona. The new facility will be integrated with our existing Metso operations in the area and is expected to be operational during the fourth quarter of 2014. The 31,000[…]

Murray & Roberts’ Engineering Africa platform continued to make good market penetration progress into Africa during 2013. The platform is comprised of EPC projects implementer, Murray & Roberts Projects – with a focus on power,  industrial  projects and asset support services; Wade Walker, the electrical and instrumentation engineers and constructors; Concor Engineering, the mechanical engineers and construction[…]

Atlas Copco is launching a new, 18-t capacity LHD for large operations including development work as well as production mining. The company says the Scooptram ST18 “is expected to be the most productive LHD on the market.” Designed to match the successful 60-t capacity Minetruck MT6020, the new Scooptram ST18 completes Atlas Copco’s range of[…]

Wolf Minerals has announced that it has been issued a Category A Mining Waste Facility Environmental Permit for its Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in Devon, in southwest England. This is a major milestone in the development timeline for the Hemerdon project and is the final major permit required to proceed with development and construction of the[…]

Australia-headquartered mining castings and heavy engineering group, Bradken Ltd, has made “a non-binding and indicative proposal” to the Board of Austin Engineering Board to acquire all of the ordinary shares in Austin that it does not currently own – 78.5%. Bradken said it has noted the initial view of the Austin board “that it is willing[…]

The University of Exeter’s Camborne School of Mines (CSM) is to play a pivotal role in an international collaboration aimed at reviving and stimulating the tin mining industry in Malaysia’s second largest state. CSM, based at the University’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall, has signed a technical cooperation agreement with key representatives from the Malaysian state[…]

The Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) has signed a contract with SPECIM for one of the world’s largest optical and mineralogical core scanning projects. Together with its South African partner GeoSpectral Imaging (GSI), SPECIM will scan and analyse 200 km of hyperspectral imaging data of archived drill core. The scanning will capture VNIR, SWIR and[…]

The Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Brine Concentrator System at Energy Resources of Australia’s Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia recently began operations as part of ERA’s long-term water management strategy. The system will treat mine process water to produce 1,830 megalitres of clean water annually (1.3 Mgal/d). The project will play an integral part in[…]

Worldwide exploration activity (as measured by the number of prospects where drilling is reported) is currently barely one-third the level of end-2011. However, the number of prospects reporting exploration activity in the Nordic countries has remained relatively unaffected. Moreover, the reported tonnage of new resources in that region increased for most metals last year compared[…]

  International Mining is a sponsor of the ninth International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ‘14), organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell (JKMRC) and Dr Aubrey Mainza (Centre for Minerals Research, UCT). The organisers say it “is on track to be the biggest event in the series. With four months still to go before[…]