FLSmidth has been awarded contracts from Vale Inco for the supply of comminution and sedimentation equipment for the Voisey’s Bay (now known as Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador) processing plant project in Long Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Currently concentrate from Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador is being shipped to Vale Inco’s Ontario Operations in Sudbury and […]

A loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will help to introduce high quality services to the Mongolian mining sector. The EBRD says it “is providing financing of up to $35 million to Leighton Mongolia to finance the company’s ability to offer contract mining services to the sponsors of at least two […]

Osborn has received a record number of orders for its machines this year, including 27 new apron feeders to be fabricated and delivered during the course of 2010. Orders include 21 new apron feeders for an iron ore mine expansion in the Northern Cape of South Africa, four machines for a gold mine in Mali, […]

Rusal and the Government of Guinea have agreed to establish a joint high level commission aimed at providing a stable basis for long-term and mutually beneficial co-operation in the country. Guinea accounts for 6% of RUSAL’s alumina capacity. The company owns the Friguia bauxite and alumina complex and manages Cie des Bauxites de Kindia (CBK).

BHR Group’s 18th International Hydrotransport Conference calls for papers. Warnings of climate change and the need for environmentally responsible, cost-effective and efficient methods of product transportation have raised more challenges. One answer is the use of more hydrotransport handling of solid/liquid mixtures in pipelines, open channels, long distance pipelines and in-plant transference.

Rio Tinto is expanding its Mine of the Future program to develop new equipment and systems for deep underground mines and has selected three partners to work on the project. Aker Wirth and Atlas Copco will individually work with Rio Tinto to develop two new tunnelling concepts and Herrenknecht will work with the Group on […]