King of the Pit
Arctic cold to Australian heat, the Hitachi EX8000-6 is proving to be the hardest-working, most dependable mining excavator available today.
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Rio staff trial a test for China
THE trial of four Rio Tinto employees next week will be widely watched as a test of whether China is willing to honour commitments to foreign investors and be a responsible member of the world community.
Treating acid mine drainage from past coal mining activities
Skelly and Loy has designed and permitted the first acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment system in the Blacklegs Creek Watershed in southern Indiana County. It is designed to reduce iron and acidity loading of the Kolb discharges and consists of a wet seal to capture the underground mine discharge, piping network, innovative aeration system and [...]
Rocmec’s thermal fragmentation technology tested at Goldcorp operation
One of Rocmec Mining’s thermal fragmentation units is to be deployed for test work at Goldcorp’s Porcupine gold mine in Timmins, Ontario. Thermal fragmentation (IM September 2009, p24) will be compared to the long-hole mining method currently employed at the mine. This offers several advantages such as: less long-hole drilling, reduction in mucking, backfilling, transporting [...]
Peru’s gold production rose 27,036 ounces in February
Silver, lead and tungsten production dropped at Peruvian mines in February although gold and moly operations reported increased output.
Largest mining motor in the world on Joy AFC for Xstrata Coal in Australia
ATB Morley says the 11 kV motor it recently supplied to Xstrata Coal “is the very first of its kind; historically most large electrical motors supplied for underground coal mining have been manufactured suitable for a maximum voltage of 3,300 V. [This] motor weighing in at 10 t currently stands as the largest underground mining [...]
Upside Down Gold
John Exter was an internationally known banker and a gold bug in the true sense of the word. He graduated from Harvard […]
Brien Lundin: Gold Looking Good; Silver Even Better
Source: Interviewed by Gordon Holmes of The Gold Report 3/3/10 http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/5746 The gold rally that began last fall and drove gold through […]
Improved training can reduce citation backlogs: Watzman
As reported by International Longwall News – WHILE US mines have made dramatic improvements to record safety performance in the last year, […]
WDS reaches for the axe
As reported by International Longwall News, CONTRACTOR WDS was not far off a loss for the recent half year, coughing up just $A50,000 […]
RANKED: World’s top 20 gold projects
The combined ounces in the ground for the top 20 projects is north of 900 million and at today's prices worth a mouth-watering $3.7 trillion.
