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MDM Engineering, the minerals process and project management company focused on the mining industry, has been awarded two new contracts – first the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Casa Mining’s Misisi gold project in the DRC and second the execution contract for GoGold Resources’ Parral tailings project in Chihuahua, Mexico.

For the surface drainage of the rail marshalling yard at the Tonkolili iron ore mine in Sierra Leone, the mine operator, African Minerals, chose the Ridgidrain system from UK manufacturer Polypipe. The company supplied to the project over 4,000 m of 300 mm Ridgidrain perforated twinwall pipe, a product that combines both technology and sustainability.[…]

Leica says its GMX901plus “is an affordable and rugged GNSS receiver that delivers precise and reliable data about movements of sensitive structures” such as pit walls. “For time-critical applications that require high rate data and a higher accuracy the GMX901plus can be smoothly upgraded to a powerful L1/L2 GPS/GLONASS receiver with an update rate of[…]

Back in August, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said that no coal mines will be closed without reason. He said this at celebrations on the occasion of Miner’s Day in Donetsk. According to him, the preservation of promising operating mines is a priority of state policy. Most recently he is reported to have called for[…]

Researchers at the US Dept of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulphur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity. This is the longest cycle[…]

SKF has launched the SKF Laser Vibrometer MSL-7000, a digital, integrated, single-box vibrometer that has been developed specifically for non-contact vibration measurements. The MSL-7000 offers service engineers an advanced, flexible and robust tool for collecting vibration measurements in a large number of different field applications. The development of the MSL-7000 meets the need of an[…]

Cummins Turbo Technologies (CTT), a global engineering leader in turbocharger technology, is releasing the new Series 900 to the existing range of large turbochargers for engines of 16 litres and above. The company says “this extensive range provides robust flexible solutions for the off-highway sector,” including mining. It also reports that the allows it “to[…]

CEEC International (The Coalition for Eco-Efficient Comminution) welcomed three new directors at its recent Annual General Meeting. They are Maryse Belanger of Goldcorp, Mary Stewart of Energetics and Ivan Mullany of Barrick Gold and they bring diverse skills and global expertise to CEEC’s leadership team. Ms Belanger was appointed Senior Vice President, Technical Services at[…]

IAMGOLD Corp and its subsidiary, Rosebel Gold Mines (RGM), will fund development of a solar power project with an installed capacity of 5 MW in Suriname. This project is delivering on a prior commitment to the Government of Suriname, which was made in connection with a prior deal that significantly lowered the company’s cost of power. The building cost is[…]

One solution to avoiding huge greenfield infrastructure costs, whether for building new asphalt roads or maintaining ice roads could be utilising airships. According to a report in Bloomberg, Robin Young, the CEO of Amur Minerals, is looking at the use of airships in Siberia, where forbidding winters and poor roads make it a challenge to get equipment to site. Amur’s Kun-Manie nickel and copper project[…]