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The latest issue of International Mining Project News, out today, has reports on 17 prefeasibility studies, 21 feasibility studies, 21 projects in development, five new mines that have gone into production, nine existing mines that are expanding, six merger and acquisition announcements and many new appointments to new positions. The report covers 34 gold projects,[…]

Mobile crushing and screening equipment group Powerscreen has announced a series of improvements to the plant controls used in its product range. Powerscreen states that it “continuously looks for opportunities to integrate new technology within its new product development”, with the latest advancement involving automation and control systems, simplifying the interaction between operator and machine.[…]

Copper rich Zambia has called on the world’s resource investment powerhouses to drive an expansion of the country’s mineral riches into a far more diversified mineral extraction and processing sector rather than its historic renown as Africa’s largest red metal producer. In an impassioned speech in Perth on the second day of the 2012 Paydirt[…]

Monadelphous Group has been awarded a construction contract valued at some A$75 million at BHP Billiton Iron Ore’s Jimblebar mine, east of Newman in Western Australia. The contract involves structural, mechanical and piping works associated with the construction of stacking, reclaiming, train load out, product sampling and water infrastructure facilities.

Scania’s Swedish subsidiary has entered into a long-term agreement commencing in late 2012, which it says will ensure safe road transportation of iron ore concentrate until 2021 from Northland Resources’ ore-mining operation at Pajala in far north Sweden. The order is worth about SEK 1.5 billion. Scania will deliver a total of about 400 complete[…]

First Quantum Minerals (FQM) is investing in a new trolley assist system for Hitachi dump trucks at the Kansanshi copper and gold mine, near Solwezi in Zambia. The project includes the installation of a new fleet of 23 electric EH3500ACII models under trolley-assist as part of a four-year, $370million expansion programme. Three different project phases[…]

Runge Limited’s new release of XERAS promises “scalability and certainty, while retaining the great new user experience” and is being launched in time for MINExpo 2012. XERAS 7.12 was released on August 27 and promises “some big back-end changes”, without affecting the front-end performance that was popular in 7.11. The company states that XERAS continues to deliver[…]

Dialight, a global leader in LED lighting technology, has announced that it has secured an order for almost 2,000 LED lighting fixtures to be supplied for a new underground conveyor system for an unnamed Indonesian copper and gold mine. The customer, described as “a recognised leader in international mining operations”, chose Dialight’s LED fixtures for[…]

Fuelling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The combination of ORNL’s high-capacity reusable adsorbents and a Florida company’s high-surface-area polyethylene fibres creates a material that can rapidly, selectively and economically[…]

Contract mining and mining services group Ausdrill has bought the various entities making up the Best Tractor Parts Group (BTP). BTP was established more than 25 years ago and its business includes the supply of new and reconditioned/refurbished earthmoving parts; rental of heavy earthmoving equipment and specialised mining support vehicles; and sales of earthmoving equipment.[…]