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Research by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has produced new understanding of mineralisation in the Yilgarn Province in WA, supported by the Western Australian government through the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA). Researchers found the formation of ancient gold deposits during the Archean period over 2,500 million years ago also produced distinctive patterns[…]

After receiving all the official approvals, Voith has successfully completed the acquisition of ELIN Motoren GmbH on April 30, 2020. ELIN Motoren, headquartered in Austria, is a high-tech company in the field of electric motors and generators that is active worldwide and supplies individualised solutions for industrial applications. As an example, ELIN’s water cooled motors[…]

ASX-listed Newfield Resources says underground development drill and blast operations continue at its Tongo diamond mine in Sierra Leone, and to date the decline development has advanced some 76 m. The ongoing development of the 6 m x 4 m decline tunnel is critical to the project progress, as each blast brings development closer to[…]

Technology group Wärtsilä has been granted funding of €1 million to support its research in the field of Power-to-X technology. The X-Ahead project is aimed at developing deep expertise of both the technical and business potential of Power-to-X, which will be used to promote a carbon-neutral economy for Finland. It will also act as a[…]

Komatsu has released its 830E-5 230 t capacity dump truck in the Australian market. Powered by a Cummins QSK60 diesel engine rated at a standard 2,500 hp (gross), and with a 2,700 hp option for greater speed on grade, it incorporates the latest engine and drive system technology, as well as capacity and availability improvements.[…]

Nord Gold SE, the internationally diversified gold producer, plans to launch in the third quarter of 2020 its new West Africa Training Centre, located near its Lefa mine in Guinea. Once completed, this centre will further develop the technical skills of Nordgold’s 1,300-strong workforce based in the country. The centre’s facilities will include a maintenance[…]

Transense Technologies PLC, the provider of sensor systems for the industrial, mining and transportation markets, recently announced an extension to its joint collaboration agreement (JCA) with mining tyres giant Bridgestone Corporation in Japan. On 13 August 2019, Transense announced that it had entered into the agreement, by which Bridgestone offers the Translogik iTrack TPMS system[…]

With just 18 months left of its current funding term, the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) says it is actively educating and cooperating with its participants in the use of its unique solutions. One of those solutions is the Integrated Extraction Simulator (IES) which it says represents the next generation of[…]

Cordoba Minerals Corp has announced that Chinese mining contractor and EPC major JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd (JCHX) has agreed to make a strategic investment in the company, acquiring a 19.9% stake in Cordoba to advance the San Matias copper-gold-silver project in Colombia. Under the terms of the strategic cooperation and investment agreement signed on[…]

In a recent article, Ivan Perminov, Head of International Business Development at Zyfra’s VIST Group, argues that the fact that China is no longer just a global factory with cheap labour has been known to international business for some years now. He states: “Yet not everyone is aware that the People’s Republic of China is[…]