The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) is calling on the Australian Senate to set the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) legislation aside so that “fundamental flaws in its design can be addressed - aligning the CPRS with a US scheme, principally, and the outcome of December’s Copenhagen climate change talks on a global emissions protocol.”

The US Geological Survey (USGS) recently published its annual report of mining and quarrying trends in the US, Mining & Quarrying Trends, 2007 covers 58 non-fuel mineral commodities produced in the U.S., excluding coal, petroleum coke and related products. It found that total domestic mining and waste removal for non-fuel mineral materials production amounted to 5,351 [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific, a world leader in serving science, is hosting a two-day Laboratory Informatics Symposium (LIS) on 18-19 August 2009 at the Caesar Business Belo Horizonte in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. LIS 2009 will be of particular interest for Mining Managers with responsibility for quality, and Laboratory Managers who supply analysis to the mining industry. [...]

The landmark Kimberley Process scheme established in 2003 to prevent trade in conflict diamonds is potentially failing in its objectives, campaigners said yesterday. Ahead of a key meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in Namibia, a coalition of civil society groups said that despite having all the tools in place, the scheme was failing to [...]

Fluor has been selected to begin limited engineering for Tenaska’s Trailblazer Energy Center, a supercritical coal-fired plant development equipped with carbon capture technology in Sweetwater, Texas. The proposed facility is expected to be the first conventional commercial coal-fuelled power plant in the US to produce electricity while being designed to capture 85% to 90% of the [...]

BASF Construction Chemicals, a leading supplier of technical solutions for underground mine development, has introduced its new identity for global Underground Construction activities. This change stems from a new common philosophy and approach to jointly market the MEYCO brand of products and equipment. The underground construction team (formally known as UGC International based in Zurich, Switzerland), is [...]

During M&T Expo 2009, Metso presented solutions in portable crushing, crushing control systems, automation, pulp pump (slurry), belt conveyors, ESI (energy saving idlers), scrapers, rubber and polyurethane screens, Trellex Poly-Cer idlers, idler of Skega metallic mill and Polymet rubber and steel idler and process technology. During the event the company reported that being a global engineering [...]

Continuing our reports from the visit to Sao Paulo, Liugong may still be a new name to many but it will not remain so for long. It is already the second largest manufacturer of wheel loaders in the world, it claims, and has aggressive ambitions. “Our wheel loaders represent the pinnacle of our knowledge and [...]

The Weir Minerals Division, of the Glasgow-based Weir Group, has expanded its www.weirminerals.com website to include information on the mining slurry equipment supplier’s solutions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, and Chinese. “The mining market is global and we wanted to reflect that fact with our web presence,” said Scot Smith, Weir Minerals Divisional Managing Director. “We [...]

Metals Economics Group’s (MEG) recent Strategies for Gold Reserves Replacement study concludes that between 1999 and 2008 the world’s largest gold producers (those with production of 450,000 oz or more in 2008) overcame rising costs, equipment and labour shortages, electrical outages, wars, permitting hurdles, typhoons, political opposition, and other obstacles to replace almost twice their [...]

JKTech, the technology transfer company, has sold its Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) intellectual property and associated business to technology company FEI. A number of JKTech personnel in the MLA team have transferred to FEI to continue in their roles of developing and supporting automated mineralogy solutions. JKTech will use the proceeds from the sale to [...]

During the M&T Expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the beinning of June, Volvo Construction Equipment Latin America presented its customer support network strategically distributed across the entire continent. “Volvo is based  on a professional organisation with a strong focus on customer support, which delivers appropriate after-market solutions to met each customer’s needs”, said Yoshio Kawakami, [...]