In March, Paterson & Cooke will give two presentations of their annual course on the design of slurry pipeline systems at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. The event, which has been running since 1996, is aimed at providing guidance for the design of slurry pipeline systems for the mining and […]

Following yesterday’s announcement on the government decision to enforce a sharing of rail infrastructure in Western Australia’s iron ore province, Fortescue Metals Group has today written to BHP Billiton Iron Ore and Rio Tinto Iron Ore seeking a Rail Co-operation Agreement (RCA) between the three companies “to increase Australia’s export efficiency by utilising each other’s […]

Metso will supply bulk materials handling equipment to Heavy Engineering Corp (HEC) for its material handling project at the Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL), Rourkela steel plant, Orissa, India. The plant is scheduled to commission in February 2011. The new bulk materials handling equipment is for setting up a new ore bedding and blending plant […]

The world’s copper and nickel smelting experts meet this week in Shanghai, China at the 12th International Flash Smelting Congress organised by Outotec for the licensees of its Flash Smelting technology. The congress is a users’ meeting where the participants can learn about new smelters, capacity expansion and modernisation projects, as well as new technologies and […]

Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan today accepted a recommendation from the National Competition Council (NCC) to declare the Robe River, Hamersley and Goldsworthy rail lines open for third party access under Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act.

Intellection was announced as the winner of the inaugural Tom Burns Award, established last year in memory of the late Honourable Tom Burns AO to recognise an emerging exporter to China or Vietnam. Intellection provides integrated solutions and services for the automated, quantitative analysis of minerals, rocks, metals and other compounds based on the company’s […]