National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO, Hal Quinn, says “the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ignored critical facts and used inappropriate data in singling out US hardrock mining for financial assurance requirements under the ‘Superfund’ (officially the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)). The NMA is particularly concerned that in making this [...]

The National Mining Association’s (NMA) President and CEO, Hal Quinn, says the introduction of legislation, the ‘Locatable Mineral Royalty and Reclamation Act’ (H.R. 3201) and the ‘Good Samaritan Bill’ (H.R. 3203), to amend the General Mining Laws are “good steps forward in updating the Laws. For the last 15 years, NMA has sought changes to [...]

“A new transparency law signed by President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, covering oil extraction, mining and other natural resource industries, sets an impressive benchmark for global efforts to fight the natural resource curse and should be emulated by other countries,” says Global Witness - an organisation that exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources [...]

Nuclear power remains the least price sensitive of baseload fuels for global power generation and that should underpin investment in uranium mining in Australia to satisfy future global energy needs, according to uranium explorer and developer, Toro Energy. Addressing a Chinese investment forum in Adelaide today, Toro Energy’s Managing Director, Greg Hall, said price and security of [...]

Goldcorp has completed construction of the first sulphide process line (Line 1) at the mining company’s Peñasquito project in Zacatecas, Mexico (Operation Focus in IM September 2008, p12-22) and has commissioning work advancing on schedule. The primary crusher is complete and has filled the coarse ore stockpile with 230,000 t of crushed ore in preparation [...]

Now more than ever, management practices and leadership styles are vital for overall team success.  In a report by Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), an engineering, sciences and project delivery firm, the effect of a downturn in activities and subsequent redundancies, role changes and skill gaps, on team morale and performance is outlined. It also discusses [...]

In early March, two Cat® 785C mining trucks reached the boarder of Mongolia after having travelled through the United States, Pacific Ocean and China. Though the trucks had already travelled thousands of kilometres, it was the last 650 km that made the delivery of these trucks to, mining company, Energy Resources’ Ukhaakhudag coal mining project [...]

The En+ Group has completed a transaction to sell approximately 1 million emission reduction units (ERUs) that will be created by a Joint Implementation (JI) Project under Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol. The ERUs will be created at the Bratsk aluminum smelter. The smelter is owned by UC Rusal.  The En+ Group holds a [...]

South American mining company, Minera Santa Cruz, has ordered an additional five InLine Leach Reactors (ILRs) for its San José mining project in the Santa Cruz province of Argentina from mineral processing equipment specialist, Gekko Systems. The order comprises ILRs, purpose-designed silver electrowinning (EW) cells, and associated equipment.

Metals Economics Group’s (MEG) recent Strategic Report points to a 73% decline in total acquisitions spending on diamonds - $210.5 million in 2008-09 compared with $760.2 million in 2007-08. The mining information and analysis company’s report showed a total of 19.7 Mct in resources changed hands in 2008-09, a 91% decrease from 208.4 Mct in [...]

Papua New Guinea’s largest gold mine (based on 2008 gold production), LGL’s Lihir Island operation, has proven itself as one of the world’s safest mines after achieving a record 365 days without a Lost Time Injury (LTI). The milestone equates to more than 12 million hours worked at the site, and is considered to be [...]

The new ROC T35M combines the straightforward design concept of, mining equipment manufacturer, Atlas Copco’s former CM line with the well-tested features of the ROC family, in a new modular design developed for the next generation of Atlas Copco’s surface crawler drill rigs. This design is focused on productivity, cost-efficiency and hole quality.