Kinross Gold has established the Kinross Professorship in Mining and Sustainability in partnership with the Department of Mining Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The proposed new program of teaching and research at Queen’s University will focus on two high-priority needs of the global mining industry.
First, it will help to address a serious […]

Korshunov Mining Plant OAO has reached a milestone with its total production over its life reaching of 200 Mt of iron ore concentrate since the plant’s foundation. Korshunov today is a mining subsidiary of Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies. The company held a ceremony in Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy. The event was attended by […]

The Premier of New South Wales, Australia, Morris Iemma MP, today officially opened BHP Billiton’s West Cliff Ventilation Air Methane Project (WestVAMP) - a world-first greenhouse gas reduction initiative. Situated at BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal’s West Cliff coal mine, the project is the first demonstration of commercial power generation solely from mine ventilation air. It […]

On September 12, the US-based Blacksmith Institute, an independent environmental group, in partnership with Green Cross Switzerland, issued its Top Ten list of the world’s most severely polluted places. Overall, the ten sites lie in seven countries and affect a total of more than 12 million people, the institute states.
The Top Ten list appears […]

Australia’s major mining exhibition was held in the first week of September, in Sydney, and was attended by IM. A record number of visitors - including a big jump in the number of international visitors - showed AIMEX 2007 to be the Asia Pacific’s leading mining industry event. With over 500 exhibitors, more than 12,000 visitors (unaudited) […]

In Sweden, at the end of July/beginning of August excavation work was carried out underneath a previously discovered boulder, which when analysed showed grades of over 30% Pb and 283 g/t Ag. The excavation resulted in the discovery of around 15 additional strongly lead/silver mineralized boulders. The mother lode for the boulders is thought […]