Devico has signed an agent agreement with Atlas Copco, a leading supplier to the exploration drilling market in South Africa and neighbouring countries. The company offers a complete portfolio of exploration equipment. Under the terms of the agent agreement, Atlas Copco will offer Devico surveying tools and software in the range of exploration products they […]

Gold Fields is set to become the world’s first gold mining company to sell Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), the financial securities used to trade carbon emissions. It will derive the CERs from the capture of methane gas at its Beatrix gold mine in South Africa’s Free State province. The company will sell 1.7 million CERs […]

Volvo demonstrated a range of innovations in the articulated hauler sector at the recent Bauma exhibition in Munich. One of them was the Hauler Chassis program, which provides bodybuilders with a modular system that forms the basis for several other superstructure versions. This program “gives bodybuilders the appropriate support throughout the design and build phase,” […]

Ampcontrol’s new Intrinsically Safe Ethernet Switch (ISES) and Serial to Ethernet Converter (STEC) provides communication options in hazardous environments. ISES is used to interconnect other fibre optic Ethernet devices, forming an underground network. It uses an Ethernet based communication protocol over multiple or single mode fibre technologies at both 10 Mbit/s and 100 Mbit/s data […]

On May 5, 2010, the European Union Parliament approved a resolution which calls on the Commission to initiate a complete ban on the use of cyanide mining technologies in the European Union by the end of 2011. Endomines says “the resolution was based on erroneous information about the usage of cyanide in the mining industry. […]

By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca Latin America represents the world’s last great mineral frontier for prolific gold discoveries due to its vast land mass and its geologically fertile terrain. This is proving to be a godsend for some lucky investors, while others have seen their luck turn to shattered dreams.