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General Electric to buy up mining specialists Industrea and Fairchild International

General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced it is pursuing acquisitions of two underground mining equipment manufacturers in support of the global expansion of its mining business.

Feminist group crashes mining meeting in Australia

A group of bearded women belonging to the feminist group La Barbe, crashed last night’s Melbourne Mining Club meeting to congratulate the mining industry for its exclusion of women and its lobbying against the carbon tax.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - May 16, 2012) - Cadan Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CXD)(FRANKFURT:AOMZ25) announces that the British Columbia Securities Commission (”BCSC”) has selected the Company for a technical disclosu…

Mining Association of BC chooses announces Teck’s executive as 2012 mining person of the year

The Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC), as part of its annual BC Mining Week celebrations, announced today that the 2012 recipient of the MABC Mining Person of the Year Award was issued Douglas H. Horswill, Senior Vice President of Teck Resources Ltd.

Trevali to acquire modern mill complex in New Brunswick

Trevali Mining Corporation (”Trevali” or the “Company”) (TSX:TV)(TSX:TV.WT)(OTCQX:TREVF)(LMA:TV)(FRANKFURT:4TI) is pleased to announce it has entered into a definitive combination agreement (”Agreement”) to acquire Maple Minerals Corporation (”Maple”), a private New Brunswick incorporated company, that owns the Caribou milling and mine complex located in the Bathurst Mining Camp of northern New Brunswick (herein, the “Transaction”).

Uncertain coal supplies in India drive Power Ministry to seek Prime Minister’s intervention

With no end in sight to the continuing tussle between state-run Cola India Limited (CIL) and the power producers over the fuel supply issues, the Power Ministry has petitioned the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to intervene and settle the issue pertaining to signing of new Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs) and some controversial clauses in it.

New industry association to draw attention to clean technology innovation in mining

The Clean Mining Alliance (CMA), a Canadian a non-profit industry association based in Vancouver, BC, unveiled today its new association aimed at supporting and advocating technological advancements to make the mining industry cleaner and more environmentally responsible.

If you want to be a miner then you need to be handy with robots

Future mining engineers are being told that they need to look beyond site design and geophysical analysis if they want to make themselves useful at a mine site.

The mining industry’s future belongs to robots

Automated operations are winning over today’s mining industry. Whether it is autonomous trucks, tele operated drills and blasts or automated logistics applications, mines are increasingly introducing these kinds of equipment and solutions.

Ritchie Bros pays $64 million for AssetNation

Mining and construction equipment auction house Ritchie Bros. has acquired AssetNation Inc., an online provider of surplus and salvage assets, for US$64 million.

Thousands of mining jobs coming to Canada’s Northern Ontario thanks to new chromite project

The Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines announced today that Cliffs Natural Resources will invest $3.3 billion to build a chromite mine, transportation corridor and processing facility in Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire, generating thousands of jobs and new infrastructure.

Anglo American Platinum to adopt fuel cell locomotive

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s largest platinum producer, launched today the first of five fuel cell-powered locomotive prototypes to be tested at its mining operations in South Africa.

Two mines among costliest Canadian contaminated sites

Two Canadian mines are among the country’s most expensive contaminated sites to remediate, CBC News reports.