Miramar Mining has successfully re-started the autoclave at the Con mine as part of its ongoing reclamation activity at the mine in Yellowknife, Canada. The autoclave will process all of the remaining arsenic bearing sludges and calcines left on site from historic roaster operations prior to Miramar’s ownership of the mine. This process will generate […]

Speaking at the Fifth Annual Australian Resources Conference in June, Ian McAleese, VP Corporate Development of Macarthur Coal (MCC) explained his company’s 73.3% ownership of the Coppabella and Moorvale mines in Queensland with 6.2 Mt of managed production (4.5 Mt/y attributable installed production capacity).
McAleese noted the PCI market has been the fastest growing […]

A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mine - Riding the wave, shows that 2006 was another spectacular year for the global mining industry with net profits rising by 64%. They are now 15 times higher than their 2002 level while return on equity reached 33% compared to 26% in 2005. It also finds that net cash inflow […]

World Gold Council (WGC) is presenting recent developments in gold catalyst science applications at the 20th North American Catalysis Meeting (NAM) being held in Houston, Texas, this week. The NAM meeting is a gathering of more than 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists, chemists and engineers who are focussed on original research and advancements in the […]

Teck Cominco, Anglo American and Barrick Gold are all significant shareholders in Nautilus Minerals, the leading seabed mining venture, taking their positions in recent months. Now the other major player exploring and developing seafloor massive sulphide (SMS) deposits, Neptune Minerals, reports Newmont Minerals BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining, is acquiring a 10.8% […]

In its revised Climate Change Policy, BHP Billiton says it believes accelerated action is required to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at levels guided by the research of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The policy states that BHP Billiton “will take action within our own businesses and work with governments, industry and […]