COPPER SMELTER NEWS Altonorte Expansion on Time, on Budget
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile NORANDA says its expanded Altonorte copper smelter has achieved design capacity, doubling its...
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BLASTING EQUIPMENT NEWS Instantel Upgrades Monitoring Software
INSTANTEL has chosen summer 2003 for the release of its Blastware 7.0 Windows-based event management, reporting and...
CONVEYOR EQUIPMENT NEWS Rollers Resist Corrosion
LUFF INDUSTRIES of Calgary has patented a conveyor roller sealing arrangement that resists corrosion.
UNDERGROUND AND PIT EQUIPMENT NEWS Australian Gold Mine Replaces Entire Fleet
Sandvik Mining and Construction subsidiary SANDVIK TAMROCK AUSTRALIA will deliver, service and support a complete n...
PIT EQUIPMENT NEWS Escondida Orders Third P&H Shovel
ATACAMA DESERT, Chile The world's largest copper mine, Escondida owned by BHP BILLITON, has ordered a third P&H 4...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS (April 16, 2003)
Richard T. Mahler is retiring, and FINNING INTERNATIONAL has announced that Wayne M. Bingham will succeed him as ex...
MOVING NEWS IamGold’s New Address
TORONTO, Ont. IAMGOLD CORPORATION has moved its head office to 220 Bay St., 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5J 2W4; phon...
DOING SOME DIGGING Suit Targets South African Miner
Is the name Ed Fagan familiar to you? It soon will be. He is the crusading U.S. lawyer who represented Holocaust su...
GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS Semi-Massive Sulphide Zones Found near Doyon Mine
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. Drilling at the Westwood project, 2 km east of CAMBIOR's Doyon gold mine, has intersected zon...
GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS First Estimates Made of Orfee Gold Zone
JAMES BAY, Que. The first, tentative estimates of the resource of the Orfee gold zone have been released. The zon...
DIAMOND EXPLORATION NEWS Promising Indicator Trains Followed at Nanuq
WAGER BAY, Nun. DUNSMUIR VENTURES has what it hopes may someday be a new diamond mine in the central part of this...
DIAMOND EXPLORATION NEWS Sudbury Contact Considers Mini-Bulk Sample from Timiskaming
ONTARIO-QUEBEC Border SUDBURY CONTACT MINES is considering a 500-tonne mini-bulk sample from its Timiskaming diam...
Summit Nanotech secures US$25.5M for commercialization of its direct lithium extraction tech
Calgary-based Summit Nanotech – a leading producer of sustainable lithium extraction technology – announced it has successfully closed US$25.5 million in funding […]