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ABB’s Expert Optimizer has automated Boliden’s zinc flotation circuitsABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announced today that it has successfully applied ABB’s award winning Expert Optimizer solution to the zinc flotation circuits of Boliden’s Garpenberg plant in Sweden. The solution applied Model Predictive Control (MPC) to help to stabilize the overall process, and maximize zinc revenue. Underground equipment dangersIN what makes for some grim reading, ergonomist Robin Burgess-Limerick has released the preliminary findings of an ACARP project to update his acclaimed 2005 Reducing Injury Risks Associated with Underground Coal Mining Equipment study……more at International Longwall News Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers to Acquire California-based Martella Auction CompanyVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (November 19, 2009) — Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE and TSX: RBA) today announced an agreement to acquire the auction business and certain assets of Martella Auction Company, Inc., a Tipton, California-based auctioneer of agricultural and industrial equipment. Ritchie Bros. also intends to enter into an agreement to lease the roughly 65 [...] Highly efficient biofuel could replace dieselIn the search for efficient alternatives to fossil fuels, producer of heavy trucks and transport solutions, Volvo Trucks, and other companies are at work, in Sweden, developing a new, highly efficient biofuel as a vehicle fuel. Joy Global Inc. Announces Randal Baker as New President and COO - P&H Mining EquipmentMILWAUKEE, Nov 19, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Joy Global Inc. (Nasdaq: JOYG) today announced that on November 30, 2009, Randal W. Baker will join the company as president and chief operating officer of its surface mining equipment business, P&H Mining Equipment, and executive vice president of Joy Global Inc. Cat® Auction Services to Hold Unreserved Public Auction in Harris, MN on November 18Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Nevsun’s Bisha gold mine on track for Nov 2010 startupCanadian junior, Nevsun has spent $93 million of the planned $250 million to bring its Bisha gold mine in Eritrea on stream by late next year. Atlas Copco to focus on Asia….moves CMT division management to ShanghaiMajor mining and construction machinery manufacture is to focus on Asia as China becomes its biggest market. Cutting fuel costsAUSTRALIAN refuelling company Banlaw has completed a $A3.3 million project to help Indonesian miner Kaltim Prima Coal accurately record and cut its growing fuel costs……more at International Longwall News Kings Koal Hauler to get VSDKINGS General & Mining Engineering is in the final stages of developing a variable speed AC traction drive system for its innovative Koal Hauler shuttle cars……more at International Longwall News Sage strikes again - this time with a monster Australian copper mining floatThe image of Perth-based Tony Sage got another polishing today when his mining house disclosed it was behind what is believed to be Australia’s biggest resource float this year. DMS scores Flexiveyor rightsMINING services group Diversified Mining Services has been appointed the exclusive Australian and New Zealand distributor for the Flexiveyor continuous haulage conveyor system……more at International Longwall News |
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