Caterpillar (Langfang) Mining Equipment Co. recently manufactured its first full armored face conveyor (AFC) system for longwall mining.

Warner Linear has supplied its S-Track linear actuators to a well-respected manufacturer of off-highway vehicles for use on a line of wheeled loaders. The actuators are used to facilitate fast and reliable bucket replacement on-site to minimise vehicle downtime. The Warner actuators were chosen for their robust design and operational flexibility, which made them the ideal solution for use within the demanding environments of the construction industry.

Grappling with uncertainties in decision-making is at the heart of managing mines’ operations, and students at the Wits School of Mining Engineering are employing a high-tech program to do just this.

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Marking another milestone in its brief history as a standalone company, Solenis LLC celebrated the grand opening of its new World Headquarters on April 27, 2015. Located at 3 Beaver Valley Road in Wilmington, Delaware, the headquarters will currently accommodate approximately 120 employees supporting a variety of corporate functions for the specialty chemicals company, which was previously known as Ashland Water Technologies.

As much as three quarters of investors voted in favour of a non-binding motion to change the way the gold giant compensates its executives.

Western Canadian Select crude, North America’s best-performing grade in the past month, may strengthen further as reduced drilling frees up pipeline room.

In this interview with The Mining Report, Castilloux discusses four REE projects that continue to advance, as well as companies making strides with REE extraction and separation technologies.

Analysts are not sure what to make of El Salvador’s recent move that saw its central bank sell about 80% percent of its gold reserves last month.