Metso Corporation's Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held in Helsinki today, October 1, 2013, approved the Board of Directors' proposed plan for partial demerger and decided to demerge Metso into two companies. Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business will be transferred to the new company, Valmet Corporation, and Mining and Construction and Automation business will remain part of Metso.

Top-producing mines worldwide can now experience top-performing lubricants for their draglines and shovels while maintaining critical environmentally friendly requirements. Bel-Ray’s new Biodegradable Open Gear Lubricant offers a solution to these mining operations by offering this high performance biodegradable open gear lubricants.

It dropped below $1,300 per ounce.

Claims come as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission begins hearings into Cameco's application to renew its uranium mining licences.

Cameco and Labrador Iron Ore complete the shortlist.

A big slice of Asian demand will be absent from the marketplace October 1 - 7.

"A dose of realism urgently needed on platinum tender."

BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced the development of an innovative modification and repair scheme which will dramatically improve the fatigue performance of cluster joints on existing tubular dragline boom designs. Once implemented, this modification can significantly reduce maintenance and inspection workloads for tubular boom draglines with long-term deterioration of existing clusters.

China's Citic Pacific's $8 billion magnetite mine in Australia has finally gone into production.