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Falcon Belt Splicing Presses Now Available in South America
Through our South American subsidiary All Rubber (Chile), Falcon conveyor belt splicing presses are ...
Posted on 25 February 2010 | 7:00 pm
Colibrys Releases New MEMS Accelerometer for Attitude Heading and Reference Systems
Colibrys has announced the release of its new MS9005, a ±5g range MEMS accelerometer, to co...
Posted on 23 February 2010 | 7:00 pm
Bestech Australia's New System for Testing of California Bearing Ratio and Unconfined Compressive Strength
Bestech Australia has announced the introduction of a new system for the testing of compression stre...
Posted on 22 February 2010 | 7:00 pm
Sidrasul Chosen as New Distributor for Dragflow Mining and Dredging Equipment in Brazil
Dragflow of Italy, one of the most qualified suppliers of heavy duty pumps in the mining industry wi...
Posted on 11 February 2010 | 7:00 pm
Ausco Answers Enviromental Challenge in $50 Million Gorgon Gas Project
Ausco Modular will take unprecedented steps to safeguard the ecology of Western Australia's Barrow I...
Posted on 11 February 2010 | 7:00 pm
Colibrys Selects Treffer Technologias as its Brazilian Distributor
Colibrys (Switzerland) has appointed Treffer Technologias as Brazilian distributor for its complete ...
Posted on 27 January 2010 | 7:00 pm
Murray & Roberts Cementation Develops New Shaft Sinking Methodology
Murray & Roberts Cementation is currently engineering a new shaft sinking methodology for it...
Posted on 23 January 2010 | 7:00 pm
New Australian Coal Mine Goes Digital for Underground Communications and Tracking
Whitehaven Coals has chosen two of Mine Site Technologies' (MST) core systems to provide a complete ...
Posted on 20 January 2010 | 7:00 pm
Geraldton Emergency Response and Safety Training Centre Brings Skills and Savings to Mid West Australia
In March 2009 one of the largest new mining projects in the Mid West Australian region, the $...
Posted on 17 January 2010 | 7:00 pm
AngleStar Precision Digital Inclinometer for Angle Measurement
Bestech Australia presents the AngleStar electronic protractor system from Sherborne Sensors. This p...
Posted on 17 January 2010 | 7:00 pm
Ten Major American Mining Disasters- by Ron Delfs
This interesting list of major American mining disasters came from environmental scientist Ron Delfs...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 7:51 am
Sudbury Area Mining Supply & Service Association Creates Enormous Wealth for Northern Ontario – by Dick DeStefano
Dick DeStefano is the Executive Director of Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association (SAMS...
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 10:05 am
Thunder Bay’s Confederation College, Mineral Sector Train Aboriginal Students for Mining Jobs – Ian Ross
This article was originally published in Northern Ontario Business in the December, 2009 issue. Esta...
Posted on 23 August 2010 | 2:58 pm
De Beers Canada Victor Mine Creates Enormous Opportunities for Northern Ontario First Nations
This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was establis...
Posted on 23 August 2010 | 12:07 pm
Roasting (Heat) or Leaching (Liquid) Minerals: Which is More Environmentally Sound – by Marilyn Scales
Marilyn Scales is a field editor for the Canadian Mining Journal, Canada’s first mining publicatio...
Posted on 23 August 2010 | 9:04 am
Hollywood’s Avatar Imitates Ontario Mining/Aboriginal Conflicts – by Juan Carlos Reyes
Juan Carlos Reyes is the organizer of the annual Learning Together conference and an aboriginal cons...
Posted on 22 August 2010 | 9:28 am
Ontario’s Hemlo Gold Camp Celebrates 25 Years of Production
This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was establis...
Posted on 16 August 2010 | 10:34 am
Anglo American Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Speech to the Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship in New York (January, 29, 2009)
This speech by Anglo American Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is an excellent example of the mining s...
Posted on 8 August 2010 | 11:12 am
Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll – Speech to the Mining Indaba Cape Town, 2 February 2010 – “Making a Real Difference”
Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carrol Mining Indaba is the world’s largest gathering of mining...
Posted on 7 August 2010 | 9:46 am
Map Staking Versus Ground Staking: An Enormous Threat to Ontario’s Mineral Prospectors – by Gregory Reynolds
Gregory Reynolds - Timmins Columnist This column was originally published in the Autumn, 2009 issue ...
Posted on 6 August 2010 | 9:29 am
ZINC-COPPER FEASIBILITY: Study positive for Bracemac-McLeod project
QUEBEC - The Bracemac-McLeod project, a 65% Xstrata Zinc and 35% Donner Metals venture, looks like i...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 9:33 am
PERSPECTIVE: Goldcorp offers top dollar for Andean Resources' Cerro Negro project
The fight for control of the Cerro Negro gold project in Argentina appears to have been short and sw...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:26 pm
HOT TOPIC: Should money be the only consideration in takeovers?
Executives of public companies in Canada and other capitalist countries have a duty to maximize shar...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:23 pm
DIAMOND EXPLORATION: Stornoway recommits to grassroots activity
VANCOUVER - Now that development work on Quebec's first diamond mine, Renard (50% with Soquem) is un...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:21 pm
GOLD EXPLORATION: Beattie property yields long and strong intersections
QUEBEC - Montreal's Osisko Mining and Vancouver-based Clifton Star Resources have been drilling thei...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:17 pm
GOLD DEVELOPMENT: Croinor receives construction permit
QUEBEC - Construction on the Croinor gold project 70 km east of Val d'Or can begin now that the cert...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:12 pm
GOLD DEVELOPMENT: Golden Band okays Bingo production
SASKATCHEWAN - The directors of Golden Band Resources of Saskatoon have given the formal okay for pr...
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 4:09 pm
PERSPECTIVE: Environmental impact of oil sands mining continues to stir controversy
The arguments for and against mining the Athabasca oil sands have always been heated. Now comes a ne...
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 5:10 pm
GOLD MINING: Essakane mine reaches commercial production
BURKINA FASO - The Essakane gold mine owned 90% by Toronto-based IamGold Corp. reached commercial pr...
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 5:09 pm
BASE METAL MILLING: Halfmile Lake samples compatible with Brunswick mill
NEW BRUNSWICK - Bench tests on ore samples from Toronto-based Kria Resources' Halfmile Lake project ...
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 5:06 pm
Stocks rise after upbeat jobless claims data
Stocks extended their September rally Thursday with an early gain after another report indicated mod...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 10:29 am
Toil and trouble: Romania rejects witches' tax
Abracadabra, we'll turn all of you into toads! That's what Romanian senators may have been fearing w...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 10:03 am
U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in July
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed significantly in July as exports climbed to the highest level in nea...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 9:16 am
U.K. watchdog fines Goldman $27 million
Britain's financial watchdog slapped a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Goldman Sachs on Th...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:16 am
U.S. competitiveness slides to 4th place
The U.S. has slipped down the ranks of competitive economies, falling behind Sweden and Singapore du...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 7:47 am
Small firms' job-growth role may be overstated
As President Obama lobbies the Senate to pass an aid package for small businesses, several economist...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 7:42 am
Kalagadi Resources "hijacked" by interlopers
The chairperson of the ZAR11bn manganese company, Thursday, expressed both dismay and anger at how t...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:26 am
S.Africa gold output falls 3.4 pct y/y in July
42 South African gold output fell 3.4 percent in volume terms and total mineral production fell 1.0 ...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:13 am
5th Annual China Gold and Precious Metals Summit 2010
PublicationsCoal International Coal International English Coal International Chinese Coal Internatio...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:11 am
Vi at Silverstone hits high with its amenities
There was no pizza delivery on the Bergmans' move-in day. Once the couple settled into their 2,500-s...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:10 am
Mining production decreases in July
JOHANNESBURG - Mining production decreased year-on-year by 1.0 percent in July 2010 compared with a ...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:10 am
ArcelorMittal and BHP Billiton terminate discussions to combine assets in Liberia and Guinea
ArcelorMittal and BHP Billiton today jointly announced that they have ended preliminary discussions ...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:09 am
INTERVIEW - Steel Strips in talks with Japan's Sumitomo to sell shares
Wheel-rims maker Steel Strips Wheels is in talks with Japan's Sumitomo Metals and other strategic in...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:08 am
UPDATE:OPEC Sticks To Forecast Amid Economic Slowdown Concerns
(Adds U.S. inventories, demand for non-OPEC and OPEC crude, and OPEC output.) Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:07 am
Mining sector remains under pressure
Activity in the mining sector remained under pressure in July, Nedbank Group's economic unit said on...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 8:01 am
Shanghai shares drop on commodities slide, HK steady
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Sept 9 — China stocks fell today after a sudden drop in the commodities future...
Posted on 9 September 2010 | 7:58 am
