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Failure to adequately maintain crushers comes at a high price

Crushers operate at high power, force and capacity in order to produce the required materials. This puts a great deal of strain on the crusher and its wear parts, which operators must be aware of when carrying out maintenance.

Weir Minerals | July 25, 2017 | 2:00 pm

Rising gold production pushes Newmont past profit estimates

Newmont Mining Corp handily beat quarterly profit estimates on Tuesday as production improved, more than offsetting the impact of lower realized gold prices, lifting the miner's shares as much as 7.7 percent to a five-month high.

Reuters | July 25, 2017 | 1:07 pm

Brazil to raise mining royalties, set up new regulator

Brazil's government will announce an increase in mining royalties and the creation of a new agency to regulate the industry in a bid to inject new life in Brazilian mining, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.

Reuters | July 25, 2017 | 12:40 pm

Copper price surges to 2-year high

Chinese data, tight supply light fire under copper price launching copper mining stocks higher – Freeport up 15%.

Frik Els | July 25, 2017 | 11:37 am

Caterpillar earnings beat estimates, shares hit five-year high

It now expects adjusted earnings per share to come in at $5, significantly higher than the $3.75 it had forecast just three months ago and almost doubled the $2.90 it had originally projected for the year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 25, 2017 | 8:35 am