Metso, a global supplier of sustainable technology and services, has celebrated the doubling of its manufacturing capacity at its crusher facility in Tinajin, China with an inauguration ceremony. The company’s current portfolio of crushers will be extended to include new jaw and cone crusher models, and the factory will also start producing screens and feeders. [...]

The President and CEO of Outotec Oyj, Tapani Järvinen has decided to retire at the end of 2009. He has been President and CEO of Outotec since the listing of the company in October 2006 and, prior to the listing, President of Outokumpu Technology since 2003. Järvinen will be 63 years of age in December this year. The [...]

ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has won a $32 million order from Vale in Mozambique for complete electrification and automation solutions to maximise productivity, monitor energy use and minimise energy consumption at a new coal mine. The new mine is, according to ABB, one of Vale’s major investments in Africa and will [...]

Although there is much current emphasis on the chemical methods of mineral separation - flotation, hydrometallurgy, and bioleaching, physical separation methods are everywhere, and there is no mining operation in the world which does not make use of the density differences between solids and liquids. Whether it is gravity concentration, classification or dewatering, the principles [...]

Swift development and deployment of new technology capable of capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the world’s coal-based power plants is essential for addressing climate change in an economically sustainable way, said a U.S. mining industry spokesman recently at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. “Our current economic crisis [...]

Diversified resources group Exxaro Resources held a Safety Summit on March 18 convened by CEO Sipho Nkosi and involving its stakeholders to examine and prioritise safety improvement interventions and management systems to position the group to improve its safety performance. “The summit sets a new momentum for safety initiatives within the group, with action plans [...]

Marland Alignment Lasers President, Chris Armstrong, is trying to find a suitable buyer for the 30 year old business. Started in 1979, due to the need for a laser to save survey time on a remote tunnelling project, the company’s most recent addition is the long distance Marland Model 500 ‘mine-laser’. As with its predecessors, [...]

Australians are not serious about tackling global warming and transitioning to clean energy if the country does not include nuclear power, leading industry advocate, Dr Ziggy Switkowski, said today at the opening of day two of the 2009 Paydirt Uranium Conference in Adelaide. He questioned why Australia was falling behind the rest of the world [...]

Speaking at the 2009 Paydirt Uranium Conference in Adelaide, Australia, Hon Paul Holloway MLC Minister for Mineral Resources Development said that the “South Australian Government has worked hard in the past six and a half years to create a climate of certainty in this state that provides investors with the confidence they need to plan long-term investments [...]

Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be boosted by A$17 billion by 2030 if it maximised its supply role in the global demand for nuclear-based cleaner energy, according to one of the country’s major uranium lobby groups. Addressing the first day in Adelaide today of the 2009 Paydirt Uranium Conference, Australian Uranium Association Executive Director, Michael [...]

A new report recently released by the American Public Power Association (APPA) documents that almost half of new power plants being built in the US are coal-fueled facilities. APPA’s third annual report tracking new power generation construction shows coal-based plants accounting for approximately 43% of new plants currently under construction. The coal-based plants will produce [...]

A new report by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a global consulting and financial advisor, called Turning the corner: Global metals outlook, argues that radical cost restructuring is vital to industry recovery and, as a result, leaner businesses will emerge. The report offers opinions on the impact of the economic downturn on the global metals industry and [...]