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Mitsui Invests in Vale’s Coal Infrastructure Project in Mozambique
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has made a significant investment with Vale S.A. regarding the Moatize mine and the associated rail and port infrastructure project, referred to as the Nacala Corridor, in...
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Process Solutions

Outotec Chosen to Modernize Smelters
Outotec recently announced the award of two mineral processing facility upgrade contracts—one in Botswana and another in Chile. In November, it reported receipt of a contract from BCL Ltd. for...
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Mining Equipment Gallery

Versatile Tire Handlers
Hyster has introduced a series of tire handling trucks for demanding applications in mining and other heavy industries.  
Hydraulic Hose Family Simplifies Service
Parker Hannifin’s new GlobalCore line, comprising five hydraulic hoses and two fittings, is claimed to significantly reduce engineering and service complexity.
Impact Wrench Designed for Mine Duty
Chicago Pneumatic’s new CP6748EX, ATEX certified and IP6-rated industrial duty ½-in. impact wrench is designed to provide a higher level of protection against accidental ignition of flammable gasses...
Mid-range Dozer Offers Higher Productivity
Komatsu America’s new D155AX-8 crawler dozer has an operating weight of 89,300 lb and is rated at 354 net hp, with power coming from an SAA6D140E-7 EPA Tier 4 Final...
Two New Haulers Feature Advanced AC Drive System
Hitachi Construction Machinery has launched two rigid dump truck models—the EH3500AC-3, providing a nominal payload capacity of 181 metric tons (mt) with an operating weight of 322,000 kg; and the...
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CSR Watch

A Clearing in Canada: Ottawa’s New Standards for Sustainability
By Joseph Kirschke, News Editor-Mining For Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources Ltd., the timing could hardly have been worse: Just as Canada issued its latest corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards for...
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Suppliers Report

Volvo CE, Cat Deploy Selected Tier 4i Engine Kits and Mods for Less Regulated Regions
Volvo Construction Equipment announced that it is now offering the first in a series of engine conversion kits that allow Volvo customers to resell their Tier 4i/Stage IIIB machines outside of the...
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Mining Markets

Silver Demand for Industrial Applications Continues to Grow
Total silver industrial demand is forecast to grow 27%, adding an additional 142 million oz of silver demand through 2018 compared with 2013 levels, according to a new report issued recently by the...
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Mining Operations & Strategies

JKTech Course Addresses Leadership Challenges
JKTech, the technology transfer company for the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland, has established a Mining Leaders’ Program, described as a “revolutionary”...
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From the Editor

A New Year Begins
Happy New Year. As 2015 begins, most mining companies will gladly bid farewell to 2014. As it does every year, E&MJ published the Project Survey. Readers will notice that the tabular data that describe many of the new projects is much shorter than years past. The survey sums it up succinctly, “…boardrooms have become increasingly reticent to...
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Exploration News

Larger Players Accounted for 40% of 2014 Global Non-ferrous Exploration Budgeting
The 25th edition of SNL Metals & Mining’s Corporate Exploration Strategies shows that 39 larger mining companies budgeted a total of $4.33 billion for worldwide non-ferrous exploration spending in 2014...
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EMJ Price Index

Precious Metals ($/oz) Base Metals ($/mt) Minor Metals ($/mt) Exchange Rates (U.S.$ Equivalent)
Gold $1,284.90   Aluminum $1,736.50   Molybdenum $29,500.00   Euro (€) 1.3873
Silver $19.02   Copper $6,670.50   Cobalt $29,800.00   U.K. (£) 1.6890
Platinum $1,428.00   Lead $2,070.50         Canada ($) 0.9120
Palladium $824.00   Nickel $18,070.00   Iron Ore ($/dmt)     Australia ($) 0.9280
Rhodium $1,060.00   Tin $23,050.00   Fe CFR China $105.25   South Africa (Rand) 0.0950
Ruthenium $72.00   Zinc $2,025.50         China (¥) 0.1620
Gold and silver prices provided by KITCO Bullion dealers (http://www.kitco.com). Platinum group metals prices provided by Johnson Matthey (http://www.platinum.matthey.com). Non-ferrous base and minor metal prices provided by London Metal Exchange (http://www.lme.co.uk). Iron ore prices provided by Platts Iron Ore Index. Currency exchange rates were provided by the GoCurrency.com.