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Boart Longyear launches new flyable exploration drill rig

Boart Longyear describes its new flyable SC11 rig as “the only compact and modular rig in its class that offers 5,456 Nm of torque and can manage PQ-size rods. The drill is a surface exploration rig targeted at the 1,300 m to 1,500 m NQ market, and can be broken down into compact flyable modules. [...]

FLSmidth awarded contracts for Vale Inco project in Canada

Company Announcement to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority No. 01-2010, 22 February 2010
FLSmidth has been awarded contracts from Vale Inco for the supply of comminution and sedimentation equipment for the processing plant project in Long Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada.
The scope of supply includes two FLSmidth ball mills (one concentrate, [...]

Success for Immersive Technologies’ Advanced Training in India

Immersive Technologies has been awarded first prize in the international category of Machines & Products Display at the 2010 International Mining Exhibition held in Kolkata, India. Following a further major Advanced Equipment Simulator sale into India in late 2009 to one of the world’s leading producers of zinc & lead, Immersive Technologies demonstrated its industry [...]

Gemcom Announces Appointment of New Executives to Senior Management Team

Technology Industry Executives Join Gemcom Senior Management Team as Chief Financial Officer and Minex Business Unit Director
VANCOUVER, Canada - February 8, 2010 - Gemcom Software International Inc., the largest global supplier of specialised mining productivity solutions, today announced that it has appointed to its senior management team Eric Palmer as chief financial officer (CFO), and [...]

Liebherr Secures an Order for Fourteen Ultra Class Mining Trucks

Liebherr Mining Equipment Co., Newport News, VA, announces the sale of fourteen 400-ton payload class trucks to Peabody Energy.

The trucks will be delivered in 2010 to mines in the Wyoming Powder River Basin area. Liebherr’s Gillette, Wyo. facility will continue to support Peabody’s mines in the region.
One truck will go to Caballo Mine, located about [...]

Skills shortages already showing evidence of dampening minerals outlook

In many parts of the world, the resources sector’s ageing workforce profile coupled with slow growth in the availability of suitably skilled employees is dampening prospects. In a great example of this, Queensland, Australia noted that as a the state its prospects of taking full advantage of the next ‘supercycle’ of global minerals and energy [...]

Spectroil Q100 - the next generation of oil analysis spectrometers

The new Spectroil Q100 was designed from the ground up with the user, the application, and the in-service oil analysis laboratory in mind. It uses the same technology and design concepts that Spectro has successfully applied over the years to the Spectroil M family of spectrometers. It is the next step in design and performance [...]

New design HS275 belt weigher doubles previous capacity limit

Greenbank Materials Handling (GMH), one of the UK’s leading providers of bulk and materials handling products, has launched the latest version of its HS275 Single Idler Belt Weigher. It now benefits from a new weighframe design, which enables it to accommodate a load cell capacity of up to 200 kg, doubling its previous capacity limit [...]

Preconcentration and agglomeration to enhance heap leaching of nickel laterite Collaboration

Minerals Down Under Flagship Director Peter Lilly has described the Australian nickel sector as a ‘”jewel in the nation’s crown. Demand for nickel has increased by about 5 to 6% per year over the past decade, and despite fluctuating prices, the future outlook is positive,” he said. “Although our reserves of high-grade nickel are depleting, [...]

Bucyrus Agrees to Acquire Mining Division of Terex

Bucyrus International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCY) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the mining equipment business of Terex Corporation for US$1.3 billion in cash.

Coal miners put cap on fatigue - technology to stop operators falling asleep at the wheel

Australia’s coal industry has designed what the Queensland Resources Council describes as ”a world-first technology to alert heavy-vehicle drivers when they are tired and potentially reduce the number of driving incidents. Development of the tool started in 2004 at CRCMining as part of a project funded by the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) and additional support from [...]

German mining equipment manufacturers expect record in sales amounting to €4 billion

The VDMA reports a 10% increase in turnover makes 2009 the best year in history ever for Germany’s mining equipment manufacturers. While much of the engineering sector has been strongly affected by the economic and financial crises, the current year has been a bonanza for German mining equipment companies. The sector expects the increase of turnover to bring [...]