Australia’s uranium exports stand to double in value within the decade to above A$1 billion from A$570 million currently as the nation steps up to increasingly fill the gaps between world uranium supply and demand.
The prospect was outlined at the 2007 Paydirt Australian Uranium Conference in Adelaide by Australian Uranium Association Executive Director, Michael Angwin. […]

Johnson Matthey, a speciality chemical company focused on catalysts, precious metals and fine chemicals, is to provide an expert ‘compliance clinic’ to help explain the significance of increasingly stringent and complex emissions regulations. The clinic is to be held at Bauma 2007.
Delegates at Bauma 2007, to be held in April, will be able to drop […]

Sanjeev Latchireddi, Chief Process Engineer - Grinding Americas, Outokumpu Technology, looks at the shift from ball mills to SAG mills. Nowadays, the more successful plants are those that have adopted effective and efficient strategies to optimize their plant operation. As the ‘heart of the plant’ could be viewed as the milling/grinding area, one of the […]

Xstrata Copper has made an important resource expansion in its Las Bambas copper district and confirms a substantial mineral resource at the Antapaccay copper deposit, both in southern Peru. Antapaccay is 9 km from Xstrata Copper’s Tintaya copper mine. Since acquiring the project in August 2004, Xstrata Copper has drilled a total of 156,000 m […]

Lundin Mining has decided, together with the Lundin family, to establish a foundation in memory of the late entrepreneur and mining engineer Adolf Lundin, to further mining education. A total of $2 million will be set aside for the new foundation. Its aim will be to strengthen the mining and minerals industry, both in Sweden and […]

Aricom, the Anglo-Russian developer of mineral resources, has agreed to acquire a 68.49% holding in OJSC Giproruda for a cash consideration of some $8 million, conditional on Russian Anti-Monopoly approval. Based in St Petersburg, and employing 148 people, Giproruda is one of Russia’s most respected mining design institutes specialising in the analysis and design of […]