The University of Utah has announced the endowment of the Western Mining Presidential Chair in Mine Safety. The $1.5 million endowment is being created through an effort led by  J. Brett Harvey, President and CEO of Consol Energy, and Greg Lang, President of Barrick Gold North America. “In establishing this Endowed Chair in Mine Safety, the University [...]

The Global Reporting Initiative and International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) today invited public comments on draft guidance on sustainability reporting for mining and metals companies. Sustainability reports are vehicles through which companies and other reporting organisations can disclose their performance on a range of economic, environmental, and social issues. This information is increasingly [...]

Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting, engineering and technical mining resource and infrastructure services, has acquired Wardrop Engineering, a Canadian firm specialising in resource management, energy and infrastructure design. Wardrop has about 1,200 employees globally and had revenue of some $120 million in the 2008 fiscal year. The acquisition expands Tetra Tech’s worldwide presence, adding [...]

2009 will see the political consequences of the global credit crunch start to have an impact on mining and natural resource companies, according to the 16th annual Political Risk Map, launched today by Aon Risk Services. In a global webcast, Aon’s political risk and trade credit experts discussed how the economic instability caused by the [...]

World’s highest royalty on metals mining, which is threatened, would make US operations noncompetitive; threaten mining-dependent communities throughout the American West. The following statement was released today by National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn upon the introduction of legislation to amend the General Mining Law by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. [...]

Carlson Software’s Natural Regrade land reclamation software won a Silver Award in the Services Category of Intermat’s Innovation Awards. The official awards ceremony will be held during the 2009 Intermat exhibition, April 20 to 25 at the Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre in Paris. Carlson Natural Regrade gives all faced with disturbed lands an affordable and natural [...]

East Asia Minerals (EAS) believes that the changes proposed under the new Indonesian Mineral and Coal Mining Law are largely positive for the company and considers that Indonesia’s new mining law is a globally competitive framework within which to operate. “It will provide the company with excellent security of tenure, and a well defined framework within which to grow [...]

UC RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium and alumina producer, has completed the conversion of one potroom at its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter (KrAZ) to the colloidal anode paste technology and says “the economic effect from this innovation at one potroom alone can be up to $1 million annually.” Using colloidal anode paste is one of the key [...]

On January 23, The Doe Run Co announced that all eight of its air monitors near the company’s Herculaneum, Missouri, USA, smelter, successfully met the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for lead during the fourth quarter of 2008. This marks the third consecutive quarter of attainment since Doe Run completed installation of the 60-plus engineering [...]

A product that improves mine safety recently won its creator, Professor Yves Potvin of The University of Western Australia, the 2008 Inventor of the Year Award in the Ready for Market Category. Director of UWA’s Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG), Potvin’s invention, High Energy Absorption (HEA) mesh, absorbs seismic event energy in underground mining and improves [...]

Australia’s mining and exploration industry gathered to celebrate the end of a tumultuous year and recognise the work of their peers at The Association of Mining & Exploration Companies’ (AMEC) End of Year Gala Dinner. Among the 190 guests were dignitaries including the Japanese Consul-General Mr Torao Sato, WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore, [...]

Germany’s mining equipment manufacturers have hardly been affected by the financial crisis so far. For the coming year, they are predicting that the total turnover will increase by 10% to €3.3 billion. Peter Jochums, Chairman of the VDMA German Mining Equipment Association, noted this at the annual press conference in Zeche Zollverein. The VDMA says: “Recently, [...]