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Roof Fall Kills Four and Traps 25 at Grasberg
Rescuers have been digging day and night while pumping oxygen underground after a tunnel collapsed early this week at Grasberg, one of the world’s largest copper-gold mines in Indonesia, killing four... Read more...
Australian Mining Association Blasts Government Exploration Deductions
Citing great uncertainty, announcements for increased exploration deductions and smaller capitalization rules through higher taxes, the Australian treasury department is under intense fire by the country’s... Read more...
Amplats Scales Back Job Cuts in South Africa
Officials at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s largest platinum producer, announced they will cut 6,000 South African mining jobs—though 50% less than the 14,000 initially proposed—seeking... Read more...
Australian High Court Rules in Favor of Rinehart
Australia’s New South Wales Supreme Court has ordered Rio Tinto to pay $200 million in royalties to mining magnate Gina Rinehart and others, based on a 43-year-old iron ore claim. Read more...
Laurentian University Leads New $12 million Geoscience Research Project
A new Canadian geo-science research effort involving universities and mining industry sponsors nationwide is being supported by the largest grant ever via the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research... Read more...
Tiger Resources Reaches Safety Milestone
Tiger Resources Ltd. has reached 2 million man-hours without a single injury at its Kipoi copper project in the remote Democratic Republic of Congo. Managing Director Brad Marwood said the number reflected... Read more...
Timken Acquires Standard Machine
The Timken Co. further expanded its industrial services capabilities with the acquisition of the Standard Machine business based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Standard Machine provides new gearboxes,... Read more...
Huge Landslide Halts Ore Production at Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine
Operations at Rio Tinto’s flagship copper mine, the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon complex near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, have been severely curtailed by a massive pit-wall failure that occurred... Read more...
Glencore, Xstrata Merger Set Following Approval
Glencore International announced on April 16, 2013, that the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China had approved the merger of Glencore and Xstrata, originally proposed in February 2012.... Read more...
Sundance Terminates Agreement with Hanlong
Sundance Resources announced in early April that it had terminated its Scheme Implementation Agreement (SIA) with Hanlong (Africa) Mining Investment Ltd. under which Hanlong was to have acquired 100% of... Read more...
Troy to Take Over Gold Producer Azimuth
Troy Resources and Azimuth Resources, both headquartered in Australia, have agreed to an all-share takeover of Azimuth by Troy. Troy has two producing gold operations: the Casposo gold and silver mine... Read more...
Coeur Moving its Headquarters to Chicago
Coeur d’Alene Mines announced in March that it will move its corporate headquarters from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to a location in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA. The company expects to complete the... Read more...
Vale Commits to Underground Mine at Voisey’s Bay
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Vale have agreed to amendments to Vale’s Voisey’s Bay development agreement, the centerpiece of the amendments being a commitment by Vale to develop... Read more...
Morien Wants to Move Forward with Donkin Coal Project
Morien Resources Corp. is determined to bring big time coal mining back to Nova Scotia even if it has to do much of the heavy lifting itself. The company, spun off from Erdene Resource Development Corp.... Read more...
D.C. Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Permit Revocation
The National Mining Association has condemned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials to “clearly and unambiguously” revoke... Read more...
May 2013
BHP Billiton recently announced its new senior management team. Read more...
An April for the Archives
During April 2013, the mining business suffered some setbacks. As can be seen on the cover of this month’s edition, the miners at Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon mine now face an uncertain future.... Read more...
April 2013
Newmont Mining Corp. has appointed Chris J. Robison executive vice president of operations and projects. Read more...
Gold Market Regains Footing after Being Routed in April
There is an old expression that says "sell in May and go away." Gold investors either got a head start in April or the worst is yet to come. Gold did manage to claw back half of its April losses by the... Read more...
Walter Energy Curtails Production at Willow Creek
Walter Energy recently decided to curtail production at its Willow Creek mine in Canada. A surface mine, located near Chetwynd, B.C., it produces metallurgical coal with production plans of one-third hard... Read more...
CONSOL Energy Plans to Re-enter Blacksville No. 2
CONSOL Energy has received approval from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for its plan to re-enter the Blacksville No. 2 mine, evacuated March 12 when smoke was detected from the Orndoff... Read more...
CIAB Issues Report; Boyce Named Chairman
Peabody Energy CEO Gregory H. Boyce has been named chairman of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Coal Industry Advisory Board (CIAB) along with the release of its newest report, 21st Century Coal:... Read more...
Brazil’s Vale Lifts Force Majeure in Mozambique
Officials at Vale have lifted force majeure on several coal sales contracts in Mozambique following disruption by severe rainfall. Read more...
Sandvik Enhances Mid-Range Roadheader Versatility
In early February, Sandvik Mining unveiled some major upgrades to one of its mainstream boom-type roadheaders, designed specifically for use in roadway development in coal and soft-rock operations. Building... Read more...
Gearboxes Offer Performance Improvements for Mine Use
Gear and drive specialist David Brown says its CX series gearboxes are designed to operate at extremely high defined levels of torque, speed, power and thermal ratings, exceeding competitor performance... Read more...
Magnets Remove Grinding Media Metal from Ore
Eriez claims its trunnion magnet separators effectively remove up to 98% of grinding-media steel balls and ferrous chips from milled ore in SAG or ball mill operations. By eliminating these potentially... Read more...
Measurement for High-temperature Storage Vessels
BinMaster Level Controls introduced the 3DLevelScanner HT for measuring volume and mapping material surfaces in bins, tanks and silos with high temperatures. This new model of the 3DLevelScanner has an... Read more...
Cabless Track Rig has Extendable Boom
Atlas Copco has introduced the T35 E surface drill rig, the latest addition to the PowerROC product family. The PowerROC T35 E, an extendable-boom version of the current T35 rig, is a no-cabin model that...
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