The National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn has responsed positively to the formation of a bi-partisan coal caucus in the US House of Representatives. He thanked the Representatives from Pennsylvania (two), West Virginia, Montana, Colorado and Illinois “for their leadership in establishing the House Coal Caucus. The NMA looks forward to working with them […]

International Mining’s February issue (currently with the printer) includes an article on the proposed combination of the Pilbara operations of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. European Union regulators say this plan to combine some operations could damage competition. A statement from the European Commission says it would investigate whether the companies’ plan to pool iron ore […]

Newlands Northern underground mine in Queensland’s Bowen basin, Australia, is the new record holder for both weekly and monthly production from longwall operations. In May 2009, the mine extracted 961,891 t from its longwall, beating Beltana’s previous record of 955,049 t set in November 2005. Both mines are operated by Xstrata Coal and use mining motors […]

As IM’s annual exploration technology focus goes to the printer, comes news that Coretrack has executed a binding Share Sale Agreement to acquire Globe Drill. Globe Drill is one of Australia’s premier technology, manufacturing (and soon to be drilling services) companies, having been established by Warren Strange in 2005 as a specialist drill rig manufacturing company […]

In many parts of the world, the resources sector’s ageing workforce profile coupled with slow growth in the availability of suitably skilled employees is dampening prospects. In a great example of this, Queensland, Australia noted that as a the state its prospects of taking full advantage of the next ‘supercycle’ of global minerals and energy […]

Murray & Roberts Cementation is currently engineering a new shaft sinking methodology for its African operations that will see an increase in both safety and productivity from shaft sinking project teams. “Innovative organisations do not wait for things to break before they fix them; they are constantly seeking better ways of doing things even when […]