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Clean coal development agreement between White Energy and Peabody Energy for North America and China

Peabody Energy and White Energy have signed an agreement to pursue development of a coal upgrading plant that would be sited at a Peabody operation in America’s Powder River Basin. The plant would use White Energy’s patented coal briquetting technology, a mechanical process that upgrades lower Btu coals. The process increases the coal’s overall energy content by some [...]
International Mining | May 14, 2009 | 1:32 am

Looking at post-mining landscapes

Post-mining landscapes offer unique opportunities with the possibility to reshape the land from scratch. The Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land provides a platform, September 15-17, 2009 for an interdisciplinary discussion and exchange of the capabilities and problems with the design of post-mining landscapes. The international conference Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes will take place on the IBA terraces, [...]
International Mining | May 14, 2009 | 1:13 am

Massive US coal merger to give birth to one of its biggest producers

Alpha Natural Resources and Foundation Coal Holdings have announced a merger plan that will create one of America’s largest coal producers in an all-stock transaction valued at $2 billion. One of the strongest balance sheets and credit profiles in the industry show 2008 pro forma revenues of $4.2 billion. The combined company will be the third-largest [...]
International Mining | May 13, 2009 | 2:14 am

The Minerals Council of Australia “encouraged” by Government Budget

Brendan Pearson, acting Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) says that Australia’s national Budget “takes an important step towards reversing the imbalance between expenditure on short-term measures to boost consumption over long term capacity-building investment.” The Budget itself outlines investment of A$2 billion in carbon capture and storage over nine years; [...]
International Mining | May 13, 2009 | 1:19 am

Mining law: Indonesia’s changing tide creating industry waves

The Indonesian Government’s new Bill for Mineral and Coal Mining (Mining Law) was developed with the intention of extracting the most value from Indonesia’s natural resources for the nation, according to Wood Mackenzie. Its introduction into Indonesia’s legal system provides a framework for the future of the nation’s mining industry. The new Mining Law opens [...]
International Mining | May 11, 2009 | 1:53 am

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme results in Australian coal cutbacks

At least another 10,000 jobs will go, 16 coal mines will close and State Governments will lose substantial royalties as a direct impact of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), according to independent analysis released by the Australian Coal Association (ACA). These job losses are in addition to thousands of coal jobs already lost since [...]
International Mining | May 11, 2009 | 1:44 am

Sound chemicals management

The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) has released the May 2009 issue of its Good Practice newsletter: Action for a safer world. It is themed around the need for sound chemicals management and looks to the UN’s Second International Conference on Chemicals Management in Geneva, May 11-15. This will be the setting for [...]
International Mining | May 7, 2009 | 5:56 am

Less noise and enhanced driver comfort with lined truck boxes

Ore mining and processing is associated with high noise levels. Workers are exposed to a tremendous amount of noise that could lead to serious hearing impairment, if they do not wear proper ear protection. In addition, the noise generated impacts the surrounding areas. For these reasons, in addition to legislative and regulatory requirements, employers are now aiming to [...]
International Mining | May 7, 2009 | 3:27 am

Learn about the mining potential of India

India’s markets are expanding, “but, says InfoMine, “there are many things to learn about the art of doing business in an environment very different from those in traditionally developed countries. The world’s largest democracy by population, India also has very active media, press and citizenry groups. A sound cultural understanding and patient overtures are important [...]
International Mining | May 7, 2009 | 3:16 am

Equinox signs smelter agreement for KCM to process Lumwana concentrates

Equinox Minerals’ Lumwana Mining has signed a five year concentrate offtake agreement with Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) for annual quantities of between 70,000 and 80,000 t (dry) of concentrates from the Lumwana copper mine (IM, March 2009) with an option by mutual agreement for additional annual quantities of Lumwana copper concentrates under the same terms as the Agreement. [...]
International Mining | May 6, 2009 | 11:00 pm

Minova Minetek commissions second resin-capsule machine in India

Minova has further expanded operations at the Minova Minetek plant at Hyderabad in India with the commissioning of a second machine for the automatic production of resin capsules. The company says this demonstrates its “continuing commitment to investment in capacity and technology to support the drive by the Indian coal mining industry to increase output without [...]
International Mining | May 5, 2009 | 5:06 am

New silver study predicts increased production, investor demand in 2009

A new research report released by the CPM Group predicts continued silver production and investor demand increases in 2009. The Silver Yearbook 2009 notes that investors have been turning to silver and other precious metals as a safe haven in difficult economic times and that near record increase in prices over the past few years are [...]
International Mining | May 4, 2009 | 6:13 am