KBL Mining, formerly Kimberley Metals reports the Mineral Hill mine has achieved sustained concentrate production, process plant feed rate achieving 16% above design and first production stope outperforms on copper grade.

ABB’s UK marine services business has won a unique order to supply transformers and switchgear for one of the world’s first commercial deep sea mining projects.

Snowden's Tarrant Elkington notes that "identifying an approach is important when selecting robust strategies in order to understand the interplay between decision making and uncertainty.

The major Polish manufacturer of mining equipment, Famur, has recently signed the largest contract in its history with Kompania Weglowa, for 147 million zloty (zł), or almost €33 million. Kompania Weglowa remains state-owned but is Poland’s and the EU’s largest coal producer employing over 60,000 people across 15 mines.

ABB's new, highly energy-efficient synchronous reluctance motor and drive package has won the 2011 Automation Award. ABB says "the package represents a breakthrough that combines best-in-class energy efficiency and customer value. ous motor and matched frequency converter, is designed for maximum performance.

Water management is one of the most critical issues facing the industry. Each year International Mining reports on new developments and methods for mitigating problems. This year the article will be published in the March issue - let me know urgently of any topics you would like to see discussed [email protected]

In the March issue Great Mines article, John Chadwick will describe one of the world's great new copper/cobalt operations, which is now expanding into its Phase 2 operations for 195,000 t/y of copper cathode and 15,000 t/y of cobalt.

On December 22, Jackson Kelly PLLC reported "Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law on July 21, 2010, and requires mining companies to include certain information about mine safety and health in the quarterly and annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

J.S. Redpath Holdings has acquired Deilmann-Haniel Shaft Sinking of Dortmund, Germany, effective January 1, 2012.

The Handheld Group, a manufacturer of rugged PDAs and mobile devices, strengthens its presence in the important German, Austrian and Swiss markets with the acquisition of the hardware division of its distribution partner Latschbacher.

Situations like long queuing times and misrouted loads have a significant impact on productivity. Cat’s MineStar Fleet assignment and optimisation technologies can help mines address these issues.

The year of peak construction activity at Oyu Tolgoi mine in the Gobi desert of Mongolia (IM April and May issues this year) is nearing its end, with the project approximately three-quarters complete.