MM Jul 2008
Panorama
Metso adds new capacity
METSO Minerals has signed an agreement with GE Energy to acquire GE’s Lachine Main Plant a heavy fabrication and machining facility located near Montreal Quebec. The transaction was expected to close in mid-August and the financial terms were not disclosed. The acquired assets will be integrated into Metso Minerals’ Mining business line. Full story...MAYOKO SCOPING
DMC Mining has released the findings of a scoping study completed by GRD Minproc on its 80%-owned Mayoko iron-ore project in the Republic of Congo. Full story...GEHO marks milestone
WEIR Minerals Netherlands recently installed its 1 000th GEHO piston diaphragm pump at the Coral Bay Nickel plant at Rio Tuba in the Philippines which was officially inaugurated in June at a ceremony attended by representatives from Coral Bay Nickel Corp and contractor JGC Corp. Weir described the event as ”a milestone in the history of the company since it started the engineering and manufacturing of these pumps in 1968 for the transportation of ores minerals and mine-processing tailings”. Full story...Wenco Canadian installations
FLEET management system provider Wenco has announced two major orders for Canadian mining operations – Taseko’s Gilbraltar copper mine in British Columbia and CNRL’s Horizon oil sands operation. Full story...Third 495HD to Boddington
A THIRD and final Bucyrus 495HD electric rope shovel has been successfully delivered constructed and commissioned at the Boddington gold mine in Western Australia a joint venture between Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti. The first and second 495HD shovels have been working at Boddington since 2007. Full story...BAFFINLAND HIRES AMEC
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp has appointed AMEC to provide EPCM services for the C$4.1 billion (US$3.9 billion) Mary River iron-ore project on Baffin Island in Canada’s Arctic. Full story...PIMENTON UNDER WAY
South American Gold and Copper Co has announced the restart of mining and milling operations at its 100%-owned Pimenton gold mine in Chile. Full story...Equipment
Truck developments – an upward trend
DEMAND FUELS INNOVATION New orders for large trucks are being placed all the time across all of the industry hotspots from Canadian oil sands to Brazilian African and Australian iron ore to South American African and Asian copper American and Asian coal and African uranium to name but a few. Full story...Komatsu officially announces 960E
ON May 28 Komatsu Ltd in Japan formally announced the long-awaited expansion of its line of super-large haul trucks by launching the 960E-1 model which has a 327t payload and AC electric drive. Full story...Hitachi EH3500ACII to enter market
THE EH3500ACII represents Hitachi’s latest offering to the mining market and features its proven IGBT drive system traction alternator and traction motors. According to Hitachi these components have a very good history in passenger trains automation systems and other drive applications with trucks being the latest product to feature the technology. The new truck line also uses the Hitachi LCD display as found in the Dash-6 mining excavator models. Full story...Caterpillar nears AC launch
Caterpillar is about to unveil its new series of mechanical-drive mining trucks and two all-new AC electric-drive trucks at the forthcoming MINExpo event in Las Vegas in September. The launch has been long awaited by the industry and represents a culmination of its acceptance of the necessity to have an electric-drive option in its range while continuing to enhance its well-proven mechanical-drive range. Full story...Liebherr builds on T282 success
The TI 274 mining truck was first introduced at Bauma 2007 in Munich Germany. While it resembles the T272 that was introduced in May 1997 in reality it presents some very distinctive characteristics and improvements that have been implemented during 10 years of intensive research and development. Full story...Terex Unit Rig MT6300AC – a new payload leader
Paul Moore went to Fort McMurray to see the industry’s newest ultra-class truck in its final testing stages Full story...Komatsu in Chile
Paul Moore spoke to Andres Aguirre general manager of Komatsu Chile about Komatsu’s leadership in the Chilean surface-mining equipment market and the potential for growth Full story...Atlas Copco raises the bar in Chile’s Region II
The mining complex that includes the Chuquicamata mine will evolve significantly in the next ten years. Paul Moore looks at some of the new developments and the use of Atlas Copco drilling rigs in the operations Full story...Management in Action
Pressure filtration
The industry has seen an unprecedented level of orders as well as consolidation with the buyout of Pneumapress by FLSmidth Minerals Full story...Groundwater at grassroots
Richard Connelly of SRK looks at the importance of properly identifying groundwater issues and gathering data on hydrogeology during the exploration drilling phase Full story...Mining intelligence
Mincom outlined in detail for Mining Magazine its specialist technical mining offering for the industry – the Intelligent Mining Solution (IMS) Full story...Platinum Round-up
Power shortages planned stoppages and industrial relations were some of the issues affecting two of South Africa’s leading platinum producers Angloplats and Lonmin earlier this year Full story...LMS Systems: Managing lab data
Colin Thurston at Thermo Fisher Scientific looks at the applications and benefits of laboratory information-management systems in modern mining Full story...Marketplace
Hot, flat and crowded
NOTWITHSTANDING fears of a global economic recession the price of most metals is holding up well relative to historic levels. Full story...Site Search
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