Goldcorp and Glamis Gold have agreed to combine in a $21.3 billion transaction to create one of the world’s largest gold mining companies. The new company will continue under the name Goldcorp Inc.
The new Goldcorp will have the following attributes, the companies state:

Best production growth profile among major gold companies
Proven and probable reserves of […]

Outokumpu Technology package to give major production benefits and cost efficiencies at historic orebody.
One of the world’s most advanced on-stream slurry analysers is to be installed by Outokumpu Technology at Perilya’s Broken Hill lead, zinc and silver mine in New South Wales, Australia. The Courier® 6 SL elemental analyser system is part of a turnkey […]

Bruce Neil, CEO of The Doe Run Company, recently encouraged the international business community to work alongside local communities and government to provide positive change in developing nations. His remarks were made to the 2006 Latin American Cities Conference on Peru Investment and Development with Social Equity and particularly apposite for Peru, where Doe Run […]

Underscoring the global application of environmental and social risk management, the Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs) have launched the revised Equator Principles. The institutions say the revision underscores how far the financial sector has progressed in embedding in the project finance arena a common set of best practices to manage social and environmental risks […]

Chelopech Mining and Sandvik Mining and Construction (SMC) have signed an agreement to jointly develop underground mining operations that will assist in solving some of the mining challenges facing the mine upgrade, including the supply of high-quality mine consultation services, performance and contract maintenance, as well as equipment and spare parts management and logistics. The […]

Outokumpu Technology has won another major order for First Quantum Minerals’ (FQM) Frontier copper mine in the DRC, this time for advanced high rate thickening and high-efficiency flotation technology. The contract for SUPAFLOr thickeners, a SkimAir¦ 500 unit and TankCellr flotation cells follows a worldwide string of successes earlier this year, including a 9.75 m diameter, 6.1 […]