October 3, 2012

Silver Sun to Begin Milling Material from Cherry Hill Gold Mine

The company has begun to truck 1,000 tons of mineralized material to Grants Pass, Oregon for immediate processing at the Merlin contract mill.

October 3, 2012

Northair significantly increases land position at La Cigarra silver project, Mexico

The new concessions increase the original size of the La Cigarra silver property by over 100 times from 306 hectares to 32,064 hectares, consolidating a large land package over a…

October 3, 2012

Australia slashes interest rate as mining woes feed fears

In a move that caught more than one investor by surprise, Australia’s Reserve Bank (RBA) announced Tuesday it was cutting its interest rate, prompted by worries of a sluggish mining…

October 3, 2012

Chile’s deputy mining minister ‘quits’ after lithium fiasco

Chile's deputy mining minister, Pablo Wagner, resigned a day after the government decided to revoke the lithium mining concession awarded to a local company last week, acknowledging problems with the…

October 3, 2012

BHP suing union for $2.5 million

BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance is suing Queensland's most powerful mining union for almost $2.5 million to counteract the unlawful work stoppages that have affected BHP’s subsidiary in the last few…

October 3, 2012

Obama blasts Romney for ‘requiring’ miners to be in his ad

While Republican candidate Mitt Romney slams Barack Obama's policies as bad for coal, the President has taken a more personal approach. Not only he went after Romney ‘s business record,…

October 2, 2012

No end in sight for South African mining strikes

Labour unrest at Anglo American Platinum’s South Africa operations spread on Tuesday to a new mine as the company and fellow miner AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) have hardened their stance on…

October 2, 2012

ABB to improve energy efficiency for several LKAB mines in Sweden

Delivery for three mines includes cpmPlus Energy Manager software to increase energy efficiency, lower energy costs and reduce carbon footprint

October 2, 2012

Sandvik launches VIBROCONE™ – a crusher with grinding performance which changes the rules for comminution and opens the way for major energy savings

The VibroconeTM crusher is the next generation of crushing technology, combining the best of conventional crushing and grinding principles to produce an unprecedented amount of finely crushed product.

October 2, 2012

Liebherr Dozer PR 764 Litronic: World’s Biggest Hydrostatically Driven Crawler

The PR 764 features a hydrostatic travel drive, making the machine the largest hydrostatically driven crawler dozer in the world.