Reed Exhibitions has officially launched AIMEX 2011 - an Asia-Pacific mining exhibition - to be held at Sydney’s Olympic Park from September 6-9 next year. Held every four years, it is now in its fourth decade. Taking up 40,000 m2 of space at Olympic Park, AIMEX 2011 will be held in conjunction with a number [...]

Arch Coal plans to invest $3.0 million in ADA to fund near-term growth opportunities. ADA has been successful at developing technologies that improve the performance of coals from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin (PRB). In addition to flue gas conditioning chemicals used to aid in the collection of ash from PRB coals, it also developed a [...]

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), an engineering and project delivery firm, says an upfront investment in environmentally and socially sensitive design is likely to pay dividends for the coal seam gas (CSG) sector. SKM: “CSG is an important growth industry for Australia and Asia, particularly China, India, and Indonesia. It has the potential to underpin significant [...]

The Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) has become the first US user of Virtalis’ GeoVisionary landscape visualising software. In addition to the initial order for five floating licences, the ISGS has installed a 4.8 m x 2.7 m screen as part of a high-resolution StereoWorks VR suite. GeoVisionary was developed in collaboration with the British [...]

After hearing a request from a safety-conscious customer, the Engineering Department at J. H. Fletcher & Co. has developed a machine that dramatically increases worker safety during mine slope beam installations. It eliminates much of the need for heavy lifting and awkward reaching that can result in injury. In the past, workers hefted large beam [...]

A report commissioned by Alexander Mining examining the construction and running of a typical 50,000 t/y and 100,000 t/y copper/cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) using its AmmLeach® process, compared with conventional sulphuric acid, has shown “substantial capital and operating cost savings” according to CEO Martin Rosser. AmmLeach uses ammonia-based chemistry [...]

3D Laser Mapping has delivered a VZ-400 laser scanning system, part of the newly released Riegl V-Line range, to Pueblo Viejo Dominicana’s new gold mine in the Dominican Republic. It will be used to record construction in the process plant, calculate volumes of material displaced during land clearance and monitor civil structures for subsidence and [...]

Volvo Construction Equipment plans to build a design and technology centre that will concentrate on the development of products and components targeted at the needs of customers in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries, as well as devising appropriate areas for co-operation between Volvo’s SDLG and Volvo brands. The approximately $40 million investment [...]

International Mining’s monster April issue, including the annual paste supplement is now with the printer. One article for which there was insufficient space is by Outotec’s Andrew McIntosh. He notes that “the sizing of equipment which achieves design requirements and is not conservatively oversized can influence both the financing of a project as well as [...]

Boart Longyear has released what it describes as “a groundbreaking” new line of surface-set bits, including 11 configurations designed to yield deeper penetration and reduced rod tripping. The company says “Surface Set XPTM bits last up to three times longer than conventional surface-set bits” and eliminate the need to use alternative bits in inconsistent ground [...]

Finning (Canada), has secured an extension of its exclusive supplier agreement with Coal Valley Resources and Prairie Mines & Royalty to 2015. These two are collectively the largest producers of thermal coal in Canada. They operate 10 surface mines located in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan producing bituminous, sub-bituminous and lignite thermal coals. The [...]

Outotec has strengthened its service business by acquiring Millteam Sweden, a company employing 35 people that has expertise in grinding mills servicing and installation. This acquisition supports Outotec’s strategy to expand its service business, with its new centre in Sweden providing better life-cycle facilities for its customers in Europe and the CIS.