MINING.COM Staff Writer

Runge Limited today announced the launch of XERAS Reader. Following the success of XERAS, the financial modelling tool of choice for mining, XERAS Reader enables users that do not have a XERAS licence to access the data calculated in XERAS financial models.

As one of Australia’s largest independent coal producers, Westfarmers Curragh has made further investments into site safety, training and operational efficiency in the way it inducts, trains and up-skills new and existing operators for its Curragh North expansion.

GIW Industries, a leader in the design, manufacture and application of heavy duty, centrifugal slurry pumps, announced that an LSA model pump installed at the Noranda Alumina Plant in Gramercy, La., has operated continuously with only routine maintenance for 52 years.

Byron Knelson founder of Knelson Concentrators (Knelson), has passed away at the age of 80. Byron succumbed to complications arising from his battle with cancer.