Honeywell Analytic’s Impulse X4 portable gas detector has been awarded the China MA (Mei Anquan) J2006138 mining approval, meaning it can now be sold and used in Chinese mining applications. The Impulse X4 is a tough and robust portable unit ideally suited to use in enclosed spaces such as coal mines, and protects against flammable, […]

In his Chairman’s Address to the 2007 Annual General Meeting, Toro Energy Chairman, Ian Gould, said ”the uranium market within the global nuclear power industry continues to be very strong in the medium to long term. A continuing need for reliable base-load power, combined with the increasing focus on greenhouse emissions reduction and energy security, has seen a […]

Continental Minerals Corporation has won the ‘Explorer of the Year Award’ at the China Mining 2007 Conference in Beijing. The award is regarded as the forum’s most important gong.
The honour is awarded to an individual or company that has discovered a significant mineral deposit in a new or previously explored area, and is based on […]

Six companies with strong track records servicing the mining/resources industries are the centrepiece of a new public float and proposed Australian Stock Exchange listing for which the initial public offer opens today. Diversified investment group, E & A Ltd, will have a market capitalisation of A$56 million upon listing (based on the public offer price […]

In the USA, Coeur d’Alene Mines has reported that Bruce Botelho, Mayor of Juneau, Alaska, has announced that the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Lynn Canal Conservation, the Juneau Group of the Sierra Club, and Coeur Alaska all stated they will ask the US Forest Service to examine the use of an alternative site using […]

A new mining safety record has been set by De Beers Finsch diamond mine, a mine that is the feature of an Operations Focus article in the January 2008 issue of International Mining.
De Beers Finsch mine achieved the first six million fatality free shift milestone by any mine in South Africa on Friday November […]