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Easy to set up and use benchtop reflectance probe is ideal for mineral analysis.

The probe is ideal for qualitative and quantitative analysis in the core logging shack or the lab. It provides geologists and field researchers with hands-free measurement across the spectral range from 350 – 2500nm.

Spectral Evolution | January 18, 2013 | 6:02 pm

Former Upper Big Branch superintendent going to prison

Gary May was sentenced to a 21-month prison term.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2013 | 5:48 pm

Volvo Penta Engines Power Sandvik’s Underground Trucks and Loaders

Engines Meet Tier 4i/Stage IIIB Emission Standards and Reduce Fuel and Ventilation Costs

Volvo Penta of the Americas | January 18, 2013 | 5:25 pm

Mine manager charged over four deaths in UK’s Gleision disaster

The incident is considered the worst mining disaster in Wales in the last three decades.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2013 | 5:23 pm

Colombia allows some miners to work in new national park, sparks debate

While miners that already hold licenses will be allowed to keep working in the area, the authority emphasized that those permits will not be renewed once they expire.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2013 | 4:40 pm

Glencore and Xstrata postpone final merger date, but get Eskom’s support

Eskom's announcement removes one of the last few hurdles in the two companies' quest to create the world's fourth-biggest diversified miner.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2013 | 3:16 pm

Canadian miner that hired hundreds of Chinese to disclose failed applicants’ resumes

HD Mining, the company at the centre of a court battle over Chinese workers at a coal mine in British Columbia, Canada, will release résumés of Canadians who applied for, but didn’t get, jobs at the project.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2013 | 2:17 pm