Mining news: training

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Intellection lifts international mineral research support

Intellection has expanded its support for international minerals industry research, becoming an industry sponsor of AMIRA International’s P9 project for the Optimisation of Mineral Processes by Modelling and Simulation. AMIRA International is an independent association of minerals companies which develops, brokers and facilitates collaborative research projects. It currently has around 50 active R&D projects in [...]

Carlson Software And Rajant Corporation Announce Partnership To Deliver Mining And Construction Solutions

MALVERN, PA, June 10, 2008 – Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable, reliable, and adaptable wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Carlson Software to provide world-class productivity solutions primarily for the mining and construction industries.
The partnership combines best-of-breed products from Carlson’s comprehensive suite of civil, surveying, [...]

Roy Slack - Cementation president knows people make companies great

By IAN ROSS
Roy Slack is has built the kind of company he always wanted to work for.
The president of one of Canada’s largest mine builders has developed a stellar company reputation for safety and a great place to work.
Cementation Canada’s core values will always be people-based. “As you go through your [...]

Metso to supply iron ore induration machine to JSW Steel Ltd in India

Metso Minerals will supply an iron ore induration machine to JSW Steel Ltd., India.

ArcelorMittal and unions sign groundbreaking global agreement on occupational health and safety

The world’s largest steel company, ArcelorMittal, and trade unions representing its employees across the globe yesterday signed a new and groundbreaking agreement to further improve health and standards throughout the company. The agreement, the first of its kind in the steel industry, recognises the vital role played by trade unions in improving health and safety. [...]

Stora Enso achieves new environmental standards by using the Larox green liquor dregs solution

The pressure filter solution supplied by Larox Corporation to Stora Enso’s Fluting Mill power plant in Heinola, Finland, enables the plant to meet the increasingly stringent waste handling requirements in an optimal way.  The Larox C Series Automatic Pressure Filter is also very energy efficient.
The Larox C Series Automatic Pressure Filter delivered [...]

Metso to supply iron ore induration machine to Essar Steel Ltd in India

Metso Corporation: Press release on May 14, 2008 at 2.00 p.m. local time 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 Paradeep Pellet Plant located in Paradeep, India. [...]

DRC unveils minerals-for-jobs deal with China

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RC) today revealed the details of its historic mining agreement with China.
In a statement to Parliament in Kinshasa, Infrastructure Minister Pierre Lumbi described the deal as “a vast Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of our country’s basic infrastructure”.
Mr. Lumbi said:  “This contract is the [...]

Innovations to improve global industry to come from small-town Neponset

(Neponset IL)—There is something interesting—at least, for heavy industry–going on in the cornfields outside rural Neponset, Illinois.
In Neponset, a privately-held company is completing a new corporate research center focused on improving the handling of bulk materials in heavy industries, like coal-fired power generation, mining, sand & gravel and aggregate production, pulp and paper, and [...]