Mitchell Hooke, the Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, was a member of the Australian Trade Minister’s WTO Advisory Council and was a member of the Australian delegation to the Hong Kong ministerial meeting. He describes the Hong Kong trade deal as “a platform for tariff cuts on minerals.” He says the World […]

Xstrata Technology, together with Highlands Pacific and OMRD Frieda (a Japanese consortium), have signed the first Albion Process Technology licence agreement with Dominicana Gold Proprietary, a 100% owned subsidiary of EnviroGold. It will be used at Las Lagunas tailings dam in the Domincian Republic where testwork on samples has demonstrated that the Albion Process can […]

As Outokumpu Technology’s Andrew Okely (System Sales Manager - Minerals Processing in Australia) and Peter Bourke (Global Technology Manager – Flotation Process) point out, in recent years, many headlines in flotation have been increasingly devoted to advances on the size front. Technology suppliers strive to design greater capacity, higher performance units and ensure that existing […]

In the Annual Energy Outlook 2006 (AEO2006) reference case, released December 12 by the US Energy Information Administration, world oil supplies are assumed to be tighter, as the combined productive capacity of the members of OPEC does not increase as much as previously projected.  World crude oil prices, expressed in terms of the average price […]

Snowden is addressing the current shortage of skilled people in the workplace by its new mentoring service. This offers technical one-on-one training for mining professionals wanting to acquire new skills and apply them in the workplace. Executive General Manager Phil Snowden said mentoring is offered as an extension to Snowden’s training courses to help delegates […]

The TSX Venture Exchange in Canada has announced the TSX Venture 50TM, the first ever ranking of Canada’s top emerging public companies. The TSX Venture 50 are the top 10 companies in each of five major industry sectors – Mining, Oil & Gas, Technology, Life Sciences and Diversified Industries – based on a ranking formula […]