A new House bill introduced on July 26 funds loan guarantees and extends alternative fuels tax credits for first generation technologies that use America’s abundant domestic coal.
"America’s accelerating dependence on imported foreign oil can be stopped in its tracks if Congress takes bold steps to foster the deployment of technologies for converting abundant domestic […]

AIM Resources has appointed DRA Mineral Projects as managing contractor for the processing plant and surface infrastructure at its Perkoa zinc project, located in the Sanguie Province of Burkina Faso, 120 km west of the capital Ouagadougou. DRA Mineral Projects is an engineering company based in Johannesburg, which specialises in project management and process plant […]

Eldorado Gold’s Kisladag gold mine in Turkey officially opened on July 11, 2006. The mine was opened by the Minister of Energy, Dr. M. Hilmi Guler. Also attending the opening ceremony were Kayhan Kavas, the Governor of Usak, and Yves Brodeur, the Canadian Ambassador to Turkey. Amongst the 1700 guests were 250 of the Kisladag […]

A mining industry representative told the US National Mining Association (NMA) that mining companies are often the best and sometimes the only practical agents for cleaning up many abandoned mineral mines throughout the west. In fact, mining companies are best placed to do such clean up anywhere in the world (IM, July 2006, p3). Harold […]

The Demonstration Phase 2 Pilot Plant campaign at SGS Lakefield Research treating ore from Baja Mining’s Boleo property, Baja California Sur, Mexico, has been completed. The six-week pilot plant campaign treated a composite sample totalling 4.2 t of ore. The purpose of the campaign was to:

Finalize design criteria for recoveries of metals and consumption […]

The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is to equip two winders at Shandong Luneng Group’s Guotun coal mine in China with power-supply, drive and automation technology. The project is valued at around €4 million. One winder is to be put into operation in the middle of 2007 and the other one in the […]