Transvaal Rubber Co (Truco) has supplied conveyor belting to the value of R1.2 million to Protea Conveyors for use at IAMGOLD’s new Essakane gold mine in Burkina Faso. Truco worked closely with the engineering team at Protea Conveyors to advise on the best solution for the application. Jason Owen, Manager, Conveyor Belting Division, Truco: “Protea was [...]

Sandvik Mining and Construction has had a major order from China Shenhua Energy’s Shendong coal production centre. The contract includes a total of seven low-profile Sandvik Bolter Miners MB670 to be supplied to the operation during 2010, with delivery commencing in May. The MB670 is equipped to simultaneously cut a rectangular shaped roadway and install roof and [...]

Aluminum demand in China is expected to grow by 15% in 2010 on the back of revivals in the construction and automobile sectors, www.chinamining.org reports. According to reports, aluminium’s long-term prospects are good as China is still heavily into urbanisation and its metal intensive growth is likely to continue for many years to come. About 65% of [...]

Minerals Down Under Flagship Director Peter Lilly has described the Australian nickel sector as a ‘”jewel in the nation’s crown. Demand for nickel has increased by about 5 to 6% per year over the past decade, and despite fluctuating prices, the future outlook is positive,” he said. “Although our reserves of high-grade nickel are depleting, [...]

China, which is the world’s second-largest energy user, may consume between 4 and 6% more coal next year on continued economic growth, China Securities Journal said, reporting on a forecast from the China National Coal Association. Demand from the world’s biggest producer and consumer of coal could be about 3,400 Mt from this year, the newspaper [...]

Tenova TAKRAF has won a turnkey contract for the supply of one SRs2000 bucketwheel excavator  for the coal mine extension operated by the Zhahanaoer branch of the CPE Mengdong Energy Group. The Zhahanaoer coalfield lies at the northwest end of Togliao city in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous District. The open pit mine is situated on a [...]

As mining operations face ongoing demand to increase productivity and decrease costs without sacrificing safety, a challenge exaggerated by a lack of highly skilled operators, Atlas Copco has published Blasthole Drilling in Open Pit Mining aimed at helping customers successfully meet these challenges. Atlas Copco shares the knowledge of its product experts and customers through 11 [...]

Some of the most powerful drives ever engineered in Australasia by Bonfiglioli are featured in the company’s range of HD Hi-Torque drives in capacities up to 1,155 kW and 1,195,000 Nm of torque. With ratios from 23:1 up to 5000:1, the drives combine new generation HD helical drives now being assembled in Australia with Bonfiglioli’s compact [...]

Latest issue of International Mining Project News available (December 4):This week, International Mining attended the 7th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining conference in Rovaniemi, Finland. Delegate attendance at FEM 2009, one of the largest exploration and mining conferences in Europe, exceeded all expectations. It is the seventh in a series of conferences held every second year, [...]

Aurizon Mines has received the ‘e3 Plus’ award from the Association de L’Exploration Miniere du Quebec (AEMQ) at the recent Quebec Exploration 2009 convention. The company was granted this in recognition of its high level of environmental and social responsibility and its compliance with best practices recommended by the Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC) in [...]

CiDRA Minerals Processing has been awarded, through Bechtel Chile Ltda, an additional contract to supply SONARtrac® process monitoring systems to Minera Los Pelambres in Chile. CiDRA has been involved in all phases of this expansion project at Los Pelambres, and will now be providing critical flow measurements on tailings lines within the Mauro tailings dam, [...]

There is constant pressure to not only maximise operational output but also to reduce operating costs and minimise maintenance costs. Logimine, manufacturer and developer of mining fleet management systems, addresses these issues with a new range of practical and cost effective control equipment, specifically adapted to smaller scale mines. The range from Logimine is called ‘openQUARRY [...]