This award was won this year by Vesa-Jussi Penttilä President of Finn Nickel Oy and a Director of Belvedere Resources. Thje award was for:

Contributing to the preservation and advancement of leading edge metals and minerals production, development and exploration expertise
Devising and successfully implementing a multidisciplinary model of transforming exploration ideas into production assets […]

IM’s December issue includes major features on consultants. Metallurgical consultants, of course, play a major role in determining the viability or not of projects. Its all very well to have the ore, but can the valuable constituents be extracted. Their work can also enhance project economics. For instance, Leyshon Resources expects to be able to […]

As IM December goes to print with a focus on mining in Sweden and Finland,, it is announced that Euro Mine Expo, an international event for the mining and associated industries, will be held next autumn for the first time ever. Skellefteå in northern Sweden will be the host city. "The aim is to create […]

This week has seen a number of announcements from ArcelorMittal confirming a greater involvement of the world’s largest steel company in mining projects. These developments are in molybdenum in the US, manganese in South Africa and coal in Mozambique.
That last was announced today, a joint venture partnership with the Mozambique registered company Black Gold Mining. […]

South of Lake Kivu, DRC, Banro has exemplary exploration and development programs underway in terms of both technical excellence and integration into the regions and communities involved. John Chadwick visited and saw a, perhaps, unique situation, a 210-km long gold belt controlled by one junior exploration (moving into mining) company. On such a resource one […]

In 1957, MEYCO Equipment (formally Intradym and Meynadier), a company belonging to BASF Construction Chemicals group, invented the MEYCO GM 57, the first mass-produced, dry-spraying machine using rotor principle, allowing continuous spraying. It heralded a revolution for this method of construction, especially in tunnelling and was the first of many technological advancements coming out of […]