Rio Tinto Moves to a Majority Stake in Ivanhoe Mines

Rio Tinto has taken a majority stake in Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., having purchased shares that take its interest to 51%. Rio Tinto Chief Executive Copper Andrew Harding, said, “Rio Tinto’s move to a majority...

Yukon-Nevada Begins Commissioning Refurbished Jerritt Canyon Mill

Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. has completed construction work on a new ore dryer and fine-crushing conveying system as well as maintenance upgrades to the roasting facility at its Jerritt Canyon gold operation...

North American Palladium to Shut Down Sleeping Giant, Starts Up Vezza

North American Palladium announced in mid-January 2012 that it is discontinuing production at its Sleeping Giant gold mine, located 80 km north of Amos in the Abitibi region of Quebec. However, the Sleeping...

China Continues to Increase Coal Production Capacity

China added more than 95 million metric tons (mt) in coal output capacities in 2011 with total output in the country’s 14 major collieries reaching 3.2 billion mt, according to Liu Tienan, deputy director...

Sandvik Celebrates 150 Years

Rock Stability Research Could Make Mining Safer

Rio Tinto Bounces Back

Freeport Plans to Sell More Copper in 2012

Kinross Sees 2012 Gold Production Increases, Rethinking Project Sequences

Pan American to Acquire Minefinders

U.S. Gold, Minera Andes Merge to Form McEwen Mining

Norilsk Nickel Develops Cobalt Production

Summit Mine Begins Production

Goonyella to Abbot Point Rail Project: On Track

December M&A: GIA Underground Acquired by AC, Tenova Buys Bateman

Atlas Copco AB announced in December it plans to acquire the underground business of GIA Industri AB from Vätterledens Verkstad AB. The transaction will enable Atlas Copco to broaden its product portfolio...

Dual-fuel Diesels Power Fortescue Iron Mine

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply engines, generators and associated auxiliary equipment to a power plant serving an iron ore mine in Western Australia.

Swedish Firm Delivers Large Shop Doors to Australian Mine

Megadoor, a division of Sweden-based ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems, has received an order for six large overhead doors for a new workshop building at the Moolarben Coal Mines operation in New South Wales,...

Industrial Coatings Provide Long-term Protection from Corrosion

The PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara mine in Indonesia has produced copper concentrate containing small quantities of gold since 2000. Based on the remote tropical island of Sumbawa in the Indian Ocean, saltwater-related...

Platinum Refiner Upgrades Equipment for Higher Productivity, Reliability

New Conveyor Systems Support Lumwana Expansion

Software Optimizes Process Sustainability

Earthquake Warning System for Mines Could Enhance Worker and Equipment Safety

Westmoreland to Acquire Kemmerer Mine

Newcastle Ship Queue Hits 60

Cokal Confirms Indonesian Met Resources

Southern Kuzbass Processes Elga Sample

Asciano Wins 10-year Rio Tinto Coal Contract

January 2012

Lubricants Offer Savings, Extended Service Life

ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties, a division of ExxonMobil, has launched the next generation of Mobil SHC 600 Series lubricants. According to ExxonMobil L&S, extensive laboratory and in-service...

New Products Extend Value of Rubber-pipe Components

Weir Minerals Linatex recently released two new products and a new product enhancement. New Linatex preformed hose bends are intended as a replacement for hard-walled pipe bends in slurry transfer pipelines...

Advanced Design Enhances Drill Bit Efficiency

Rockmore International’s new B6 drill bit is intended to increase drilling efficiency and reduce operating costs for hardrock drilling and blasting in tunneling operations. The bit’s new design is...

Fiber Optic Cable

Optical Cable Corp.’s MSHA-certified tightbuffered breakout cable is designed to extend high speed communications deep underground, while withstanding thermal extremes, physical hazards and even falling...

Extracted Key Adaptor

Dozer Simulator Upgrade Advances Training Technology

Dependable Power Source for Remote Stations

Multi-Duty Heating Blanket

New ADT Lineup is Faster, Carries More and Burns Less Fuel

Dozer Upgrades Designed for Higher Productivity

Flexible, Versatile Handheld XRF Analyzer

Belt Tracking Idlers for V-return Conveyor Systems

Mine Scheduling Software Upgrade

Scoop Designed for Low-vein Operations