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Strong international turnout expected for MINExpo
MINExpo International 2008, the world’s largest mining equipment and technology exposition, is just two months away and international vendors are working with the US Department of Commerce’s (DOC) International Buyer Program (IBP) to facilitate a robust international component of the show. To date 15 countries are using the IBP to organise delegations to attend the [...]
Caterpillar Announces Acquisition of Leading Brazilian Locomotive
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MGE Equipamentos & Serviços Ferroviários Ltda. will become part of Caterpillar’s Progress Rail Services Division
PEORIA, IL, - Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), has reached an agreement to acquire all of the capital stock of MGE Equipamentos & Serviços Ferroviários Ltda. (MGE). Based in Diadema and Hortolandia - in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, [...]
Taseko’s Gibraltar Mine installs Wenco Fleet Management
June 2008 – Vancouver, BC. Taseko’s Gibraltar Copper Mine has installed Wenco’s Fleet Management System. Wenco’s fleet management system is a key component to Taseko’s major expansion and modernization plan.
Wenco will install 23 units of their onboard Axon computer hardware and software for the entire truck, shovel, loader, drill and crusher equipment fleets, and three [...]
Kloof Gold Mine achieves a million fatality-free shifts
In a stark reminder of the dangerous nature of deep level gold mining in South Africa. Gold Fields is rightly proud of its Kloof gold mine, near Westonaria on the West Rand, which today achieved one million fatality-free shifts. However, put in context, that is just 50 days without a fatality. Many mines in other parts [...]
Gold Reserve and Crystallex meet with venezuelan environment ministry
Gold Reserve reports that it was invited to a meeting held on June 18, 2008 with the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment (”MinAmb”), led by Vice Minister of Environmental Planning and Administration, Ing. Merly Garcia and assisted by legal advisor Dra. Lucy Vidal. Crystallex International also attended the meeting. According to Vice Minister Garcia, the objective of [...]
Metso to supply an iron ore induration machine to Trinidad & Tobago
Metso Minerals will supply an iron ore induration machine to Global Supplies Ltd., a member of the Essar Group. The machine will be delivered to Essar Steel Holdings Ltd. for its Point Lisas Pellet Plant located in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago. The value of the order is approximately EUR 16 million.
The order comprises a 744 [...]
Tennesee Zinc Mine Installs Large Leaky Feeder Radio System
SRA Corporation is focused on the development of its zinc projects in the state of Tennessee. SRA’s goal to become a major zinc producer through re-opening the Mid-Tennessee Zinc Mines is coming to fruition as production is now underway.
As part of this re-development SRA management and their operating contractor, Dynatec Mining Corp, identified the need [...]
Metso strengthens its mining equipment supply chain with a Canadian acquisition
Metso has signed an agreement with GE Energy to acquire GE’s Lachine Main Plant, a heavy fabrication and machining facility located near Montreal, province of Quebec, Canada. The transaction is expected to close in mid-August. The parties have agreed not to disclose the financial terms.
The acquired assets will be integrated into Metso Minerals’ Mining business [...]
NMA speaks out on coal mine safety and climate change
Underground coal mine operators are moving aggressively to comply with the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006 at the same time as they voluntarily push to formalise new risk management practices designed to help the industry identify, eliminate and manage conditions and practices that have the greatest [...]
WESTPORT, CT, June 20, 2008 — Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) today announced that it will host an Investment Analyst Meeting on September 4, 2008, at the Terex Corporation headquarters in Westport, Connecticut. The event is scheduled toLatest issue of International Mining Project News available (June 20): It’s been another busy fortnight for the iron ore [...]
Future Australian mining engineers demonstrate new innovations
Thirty-three of Australia’s next generation of mining engineers demonstrated the innovations of the future at the annual “Mission Impossible 2008 - CRCMining Equipment Design Challenge”. After much deliberation by a specialist panel of CRCMining judges, ‘The Turbines’ emerged victorious by a small margin of three points over the second placed team. [...]
