Some of the most powerful drives ever engineered in Australasia by Bonfiglioli are featured in the company’s range of HD Hi-Torque drives in capacities up to 1,155 kW and 1,195,000 Nm of torque. With ratios from 23:1 up to 5000:1, the drives combine new generation HD helical drives now being assembled in Australia with Bonfiglioli’s compact […]

The global zircon industry has encountered a period of great uncertainty as a result of the global financial crisis. Consumption in 2008 was virtually the same as in 2004 and 7.4% below the record 2007 level, due to the sudden collapse of demand in the last quarter, as uncertainty gripped all markets. This trend continued […]

The GFMS Steel Group notes that “steel prices in 2009 have mirrored the global economic performance, with prices hitting lows in early second quarter Q2, before recovering through Q3. Asian prices were the first to move upwards, driven by the early adoption of the Chinese stimulus and credit expansion.” But GFMS fears for the future, […]

As mining operations face ongoing demand to increase productivity and decrease costs without sacrificing safety, a challenge exaggerated by a lack of highly skilled operators, Atlas Copco has published Blasthole Drilling in Open Pit Mining aimed at helping customers successfully meet these challenges. Atlas Copco shares the knowledge of its product experts and customers through 11 […]

Kinross Gold’s Kupol mine in the Far East Region of the Russian Federation has been fully certified under the International Cyanide Management Code. Kupol is the first mine in Russia to obtain this certification, which was received based on a thorough independent third-party audit of the mine operations. In November 2009, Kupol’s transportation group was […]

By Rob Foulkes, Critical Resources: To avoid the sort of protests already faced by other mines and projects in Peru, Xstrata’s Las Bambas project has focused early and hard on community relations. Will that be enough? This is the third article in our License to Operate Flashpoint series analysing socio-political risks around resource projects in […]