MM Jan/Feb 2009
Australia goes autonomous
A new chapter has begun in surface autonomous mining operations with the introduction of Komatsu’s FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System at Rio Tinto’s West Angelas iron ore mine in the Pilbara, as Paul Moore reports Full story...LeTourneau in exclusive Vale deal
Leading wheel-loader maker LeTourneau Technologies Inc announced on December 15 that it has entered into a five-year, global, strategic alliance with Brazil’s Vale. Full story...Full service from FLS
While its parent is a well-established doyen of the cement game, FLSmidth Minerals is working hard to make a name for itself. Full story...Finning Veladero truck sale
Finning International Inc has announced that its South American mining division has sold six Caterpillar 793 mining trucks to Minera Argentina Gold, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold and operator of the Veladero gold mine in Argentina Full story...Panorama
Australia goes autonomous
A new chapter has begun in surface autonomous mining operations with the introduction of Komatsu’s FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System at Rio Tinto’s West Angelas iron ore mine in the Pilbara, as Paul Moore reports Full story...
LeTourneau in exclusive Vale deal
Leading wheel-loader maker LeTourneau Technologies Inc announced on December 15 that it has entered into a five-year, global, strategic alliance with Brazil’s Vale. Full story...Full service from FLS
While its parent is a well-established doyen of the cement game, FLSmidth Minerals is working hard to make a name for itself. Full story...Finning Veladero truck sale
Finning International Inc has announced that its South American mining division has sold six Caterpillar 793 mining trucks to Minera Argentina Gold, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold and operator of the Veladero gold mine in Argentina Full story...Krupp crusher order
Following on from the 2007 delivery of a crawler-mounted, fully-mobile crusher to Inner Mongolia’s Yimin Coal, the Essen-based heavy mining equipment specialist ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik is to build another four crushers for the Chinese market. Full story...Mine of the Month
Cortez Hills – the latest chapter
While output from its Pipeline mine is now on the wane, Barrick Gold has ambitious plans to make Cortez its Nevada number one. Simon Walker went there to find out more Full story...Kittila - Worth its weight in gold
Carly Lovejoy visited Agnico-Eagle’s Kittila gold mine in Finland as it gears up for full production Full story...Equipment
Strength with utility
Paul Moore takes a look at this important area of coal equipment, composed of coal LHDs and shield haulers, which conduct a surprisingly wide variety of tasks Full story...Strength with utility
Paul Moore takes a look at this important area of coal equipment, composed of coal LHDs and shield haulers, which conduct a surprisingly wide variety of tasks Full story...Bauxite processing
With the nature of bauxite ores and proximity to the alumina refinery varying considerably, the approach to processing and handling is unique to each site Full story...Management in Action
Healthy and wise
The evolution of real-time production machine health monitoring systems has gathered pace, giving mines the ability to address problems as they happen, reports Paul Moore Full story...Healthy and wise
The evolution of real-time production machine health monitoring systems has gathered pace, giving mines the ability to address problems as they happen, reports Paul Moore Full story...Safety first
Carly Lovejoy investigates fire protection and suppression systems designed for use in mining Full story...Flying aces
Carly Lovejoy looks at airborne surveying techniques used in global mineral exploration and the firms offering them Full story...GIS – a mine of information
Paul Moore looks at how the mining industry utilises GIS platforms from the perspective of the providers Full story...Marketplace
2008: record metals trading
The London Metal Exchange (LME) said trading rose 22% in 2008, for a fourth consecutive year against the backdrop of “exceptional market turmoil”. Full story...Site Search
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