Vale has increased its initial coal production target at the Moatize mine in Mozambique by 76% and is planning to quadruple that result in 2012. Vale sales manager Marcelo Matos said Moatize mine is expected to produce 1.5Mt of coal in 2011.

Proto Resources & Investments has received a mining lease from the Tasmanian Government for the firm's Barnes Hill project near Beaconsfield, Tasmania, for an initial period of 15 years.

Long distance hydrotransportation of aggressive or abrasive products is an exceptionally challenging task even for positive displacement pumps. FELUWA's MULTISAFE double hose-diaphragms pumps are provided with two hose-diaphragms, which are arranged one inside the other. They ensure linear flow path and redundant, hermetical sealing between wet and drive end. Read more

Metals recovery and technologies firm Catalyst Resource Group has completed construction of its laboratory and recovery facility in California. Read more

Before the acquisition of the TS 525 Radial Telescopic Conveyor this customer was stockpiling the material by unloading trucks directly into a stockpile heap. As a key factor in a successful heap leaching operation is ‘permeability’, stockpiling in this way meant the material was too compacted. This resulted in an ineffective leaching project as the solution could not percolate the compacted areas which left valuable minerals lost within the material. Read more

Industrial gearbox specialist Hansen Industrial Transmissions (HIT), formerly in hands of Hansen Transmissions International (HTI), and acquired by Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) in March 2011, is ready to move forward under its new ownership. In combination with its extended product portfolio for dedicated drive solutions, HIT, this week, simultaneously introduces its new identity at the Hanover Fair and the Maintenance Show in Antwerp. Read more

Anglo American’s Metallurgical Coal business has awarded a mining services contract worth $144m to John Holland Group. Under the three-year contract, John Holland […]

Within an ordinary industrial building in central Norway, people hover over a test drillhole running many meters deep. They are Devico engineers […]

Molycorp has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.  Molycorp will team-up with […]