Geosoft, a leader in software and solutions for earth exploration, was the recipient of the 2010 ESRI International Partner of the Year award. The ESRI Business Partner Awards recognise partners for outstanding achievements in the areas of solution development, services or sales and the fostering of ESRI technology into key markets. ESRI and Geosoft are [...]

Demand for high grade lithium used in rechargeable batteries could soar by as much as 150% over the next six years if projections for electric vehicle sales are correct, says President and CEO of Canada Lithium Corp, Peter Secker. “As electric vehicles start to ramp up over the next two to three years, there’s going [...]

As International Mining’s article on the latest in open-pit haulers is prepared for the June issue, we hear the technology underpinning the Tesla Roadster, a high-performance electric sports car is showing up in a truck. The Silicon Valley automaker is providing the batteries Freightliner Custom Chassis is putting in the electric trucks it will have [...]

Mountaintop removal coal mining continues to raise controversy in the US. The latest row started last Friday when the EPA announced its proposal under the Clean Water Act to significantly restrict or prohibit mountain top mining at the Spruce No. 1 surface mine in Logan County, West Virginia. Spruce No.1 mine is one of the [...]

Chinese demand for gold is set to double in tonnage terms within just ten years according to the latest World Gold Council (WGC) publication, Gold in the Year of the Tiger. Chinese gold consumption was worth more than $14 billion in 2009 - equivalent to 11% of global demand. The report shows that over the [...]

Tenova TAKRAF has refurbished an SR 1300 large bucket wheel excavator that was built more than 27 years ago by the company. […]

Ian Carr, Managing Director of Team Simoco explains why reliable radio communications are essential in the remote operating environments of the mining sector. For the staff working in mining, dealing with environmental extremes is par for the course; storm-battered sites and sun-blistered deserts in some of the world’s most remote locations are the places of [...]

Latest issue of International Mining Project News available (March 26): The joint venture agreement between Rio Tinto and Chinalco at the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea is big news this issue, with both companies signing a Memorandum of Understanding for the development and operation of the mine. There are also five diamond project updates [...]

ABB has won a $50 million order from Minera Chinalco Peru to supply electrification and automation systems for the new Toromocho copper mine and concentrator plant. This is ABB’s second order from the mine as last year it won a separate order to supply three gearless mill-drive systems. They will be the world’s largest and highest-altitude [...]

 In its latest Base Metals One Year Forecast report, GFMS says “our preferred economic indicator, the OECD composite Leading Indicators, is still pointing in the right direction for a broad-based recovery in base metals demand. It rose to 103.6 in January from 102.8. Growth was seen in G-7 category (103.6 from 102.8). The major Asia 5 [...]

Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical has entered a strategic alliance with neutron generator based analyser specialist SODERN. The result will be the long-term, exclusive, worldwide distribution and support of SODERN’s neutron based cross-belt analysers by PANalytical. Cross-belt analysers are used for critical applications such as real-time characterisation of raw materials, mine management, and stockpile and raw [...]

General Electric and Umicore have signed a technology license agreement to commercialise a proprietary Hydrocarbon Selective Lean NOx Catalyst (HC-LNC) aftertreatment designed to reduce diesel engine NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions for various transportation as well as stationary applications. The HC-LNC aftertreatment could provide an alternative to the existing selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology.