US President Barack Obama announced last week that the Department of Energy (DoE) has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia, USA. The project is scheduled to be the first US nuclear power plant [...]

AEL Mining Services, a provider of commercial explosives, was recently recognised by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for its contribution to innovative R&D in technology at the THRIP (Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme) Conference which took place in Cape Town, South Africa last year. AEL partnered with the Cape Peninsula University [...]

Continuing from yesterday’s post on Bauma (April 19-25 in Munich), International Mining has even more lined up for its special April article on the event. This includes Tenova Takraf’s new generation of mobile crushing systems, ITT Water & Wastewater’s two-stage Flygt pump, SSAB’s free welding handbook, Grindex’s new Master SH pump, Pilot Crushtec’s Twister VSI [...]

Following the Mining Indaba in Cape Town at the beginning of the month, Roger Dixon, Chairperson of SRK Consulting in South Africa, […]

Australia’s Codan has announced record sales and profit for the half year ended December 31, 2009. Managing Director, Mike Heard, said the exceptional demand for, Codan subsidiary, Minelab’s metal detection equipment saw its sales revenue more than double in the latest half year, accounting for 50% of the group’s record total revenue. Heard: “With the [...]

There is always a good mining display at Bauma (April 19-25 in Munich). Already International Mining has lined up for its special April article on Bauma Rema Tip Top’s new REMASTAR high-quality wear-protection material, Sandvik’s launch of the QI240 tracked impact crusher, Schopf’s new 10/12 t LHD, Rockmore’s new DTH hammer, Volvo’s new [...]

Goldcorp’s Musselwhite mine in northwest Ontario has become the first gold mining operation in Canada to be fully certified under the International Cyanide Management Code for the Manufacture, Transport and Use of Cyanide in the Production of Gold. Musselwhite is an underground mine that produces some 250,000 oz/y of gold.

Immersive Technologies has been awarded first prize in the international category of Machines & Products Display at the 2010 International Mining Exhibition held in Kolkata, India. Following a further major Advanced Equipment Simulator sale into India in late 2009 to one of the world’s leading producers of zinc & lead, Immersive Technologies demonstrated its industry [...]

Norcast Wear Solutions brings together various casting and other consumables businesses for world mining. It encompasses Norcast Castings, which its says is the world’s second largest producer of mill liners and one of the world’s largest suppliers of mill liners, crushers and wear components to the industry, and the assets of Swanmet Engineering, a manufacturing company with operations [...]

Sandvik’s HX410 electrostatic dust suppression system will take on the challenge of transfer point dust suppression for RWE Power in Germany. The customer will evaluate the HX410 on a conveyor that transports lignite and overburden in the Garzweiler open-pit mine. The conveyor has a capacity up to 37,500 t/h at a belt speed of 7.5 [...]

The new compact digging arm loader from GIA Industri has been designed for 7 m2 cross-section tunnels and offers the option of electric or diesel power. Designed to operate in tunnels with a width of 2.5 m and the same height, this wheeled loader has a loading capacity of 2.5 m3/min. The 7HR features two [...]

The Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA) recently sponsored a symposium on Minerals for a Green Society in Washington, D.C. The presentations and discussions highlighted facts about minerals that are critical for our changing society, including what is needed and how vulnerable the US may be to disruptions in global supply. The symposium also provided [...]