Collaboration between the CSIRO’s Minerals Down Under and Australia’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has led to the development of a new massively paralleled detector […]

Agricultural giant Cargill has taken a step into the iron ore mining and processing sector, with the announcement of an agreement with Magnetation Inc of Nashwauk, Minnesota, under which the companies will explore opportunities “to develop and utilise Magnetation’s proprietary mineral processing technology.” According to Magnetation, the patent-pending Rev 3 separator technology allows mining operators to recover a marketable, high-grade [...]

Barminco has boosted training capacity and reinforced its approach to safety with the purchase of a UG360 Advanced Equipment Simulator from one […]

Shaft Sinkers Holding, the South African developer of vertical and decline shafts for underground mines and infrastructure, has announced its intention to […]

In what it describes as “a world first,”  Orica Mining Services has unveiled a commercial wireless initiating system “that has the potential to […]

JKTech, the technology transfer company for the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre and the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of […]

At Atlas Copco’s annual press lunch in London this week, Björn Rosengren, Senior Executive Vice President, Construction and Mining Technique (CMT), reported […]

img_sd_d5047_w0c2079.jpg On November 25, Rio Tinto announced the establishment of the Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Construction (RTC-UMC) at the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) located in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Rio Tinto will be investing $10 million dollars over five years to undertake research at the centre.

Sonic Drill, a world leader in sonic drilling technology, has engineered and released a sonic drill rig that can fit within a shipping container. Its inventor has also won an innovation award.

century2_wideweb__470x2960.jpg A$707 a second is how much the Queensland minerals and energy resources sector spends on goods and services from Queensland businesses; wages and salaries paid to its Queensland employees, and voluntary community contributions to Queensland communities. This is just a sample of the data available from a new website www. Queenslandeconomy.com.au

Recently RBC Capital Markets held its ninth Annual Gold Conference in London - hosting CEOs of the world’s largest gold companies. RBC reports the reoccurring themes from its ‘In Conversation With’ forum and audience polls.

Apurimac Ferrum (AF) has commenced a concept-level study into the potential for a rope conveyor (by Doppelmayr) for the Apurimac project in Peru. […]