The latest issue of International Mining Project News is now available (May 23). In addition to almost 35 feasibility and prefeasibility studies, it reports on some 40 projects in development and notes a higher than normal number of new mines going into production over the past two weeks. Big news is Coeur d’Alene Mines noting […]

OMZ OJSC (Uralmash-Izhora Group) company IZ-KARTEX, a leading producer of electric mining shovels in Russia and the CIS, is hosting the 4th international conference Prospects of Production and Development of IZ-KARTEX Mining Equipment, May 21-22 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference topics include development of IZ-KARTEX’s product range, production of high powered shovels (up to 55 m3 […]

Supplying over 31% of electricity demand, nuclear energy plays a key role in the EU’s generation structure, and emerges as a comprehensive and cost-effective generating option. In fact, it has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emission, to meet the ever-increasing demand for electricity and to make a crucial contribution to the Community’s energy independence […]

During January-March 2008 mines of Siberian Coal Energy Co (SUEK) produced 26.78 Mt and sold 28.7 Mt of coal. This production was a rise of 12.5% (and sales grew 20%) compared to the same period last year. The highest growth was registered in domestic sales - 26% as compared to the first quarter of 2007. Russian consumers […]

Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC), the holding company of a leading diversified natural resources group based in Kazakhstan, announces that ENRC Logistics, the group’s transportation division, has won the Kazakhstan State tender for the ‘China Gateway Project’. This will involve the construction of approximately 300 km of railway in southeast Kazakhstan, which ENRC will subsequently […]

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a funding opportunity announcement calling on US colleges and universities to propose new projects to enhance the long-term use of coal. This launches the 30th year of DOE’s University Coal Research (UCR) program, its longest-running student-teacher research grant program. Since the program’s inception in 1979, nearly 1,765 […]