Made from neoprene material and equipped with an N99 Active Carbon filter, the new RZ Mask filters out 99.9% of dust and allergens while absorbing mine fumes and odours. The mask covers the nose and mouth to ensure that clean air is inhaled during work in active mines.

Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on the EU market face “significant” extra costs under EU proposals to nearly triple the number of banned chemicals.

International environmental firm SLR Consulting continues to expand the services it offers in southern Africa with the acquisition of Bittner Water Consult (BIWAC), a groundwater consulting firm based in Namibia.

The world market for mining equipment is projected to climb 8.5% annually through 2015 to $92 billion. Demand will be stimulated by a pickup in mining output growth as global manufacturing activity and construction expenditures accelerate in a generall...

Completing the suite of renewals of its major mining services contracts, Industrea has signed a continuation of the whole of mine contract with Cockatoo Coal subsidiary Baralaba Coal for its Baralaba South mine in the Bowen Basin in Queensland.

RBC Capital Markets forecasts copper demand growth of 3.6% in 2011, 5.5% in 2012, 5.6% in 2013, and trend growth of approximately 4.0% in 2014 and 2015.

With confirmation of the discovery of two strategic minerals, vanadium and graphite, Energizer Resources says it "is now well positioned to move forward to mine development"

Gold Fields and Gold One International have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to investigate the viability of concurrently reprocessing their combined surface tailings deposits, located on the West Rand region of South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin.

The complexities of drillhole management are made simpler with Mintec's release of MineSight Torque Version 2.2 this week.

Australia Minerals and Mining Group (AMMG), through its wholly owned subsidiary Kaolin Resources, has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Kalamazon Estudos Geologicos (KEG), the wholly owned subsidiary of Kalamazon Minerals.

Potash West reports that it continues to make important breakthroughs in the critical area of identifying a commercial process to produce potash from its worldscale greensands resources in Western Australia. Following...

The Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa, Susan Shabangu, will officially welcome a global audience of more than 6,500 professionals to the 18th annual Mining Indaba. She will welcome delegates to the world’s...