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Sandvik's Q4 core profit disappoints

Wednesday , 01 Feb 2012
Swedish specialty steel and tool maker Sandvik, which has warned it was bracing for slower economic growth, posted a smaller-than-expected rise in its Q4 core profit on Wednesday.

Atlas Copco sees weaker 2012 demand after record year

Wednesday , 01 Feb 2012
Atlas Copco has forecast a weaker demand for most construction equipment this year due to growing global economic uncertainty, despite posting a record full-year profit in 2011.

Global mining machinery market projected to reach $92 billion by 2015

Tuesday , 31 Jan 2012
Projected annual growth of 8.5% will take the global mining equipment market to some $92 billion by 2015 led by the Asia Pacific region according to a report by the Freedonia group.

Flowsheet development for potash from Australian greensands

Wednesday , 25 Jan 2012
Australia's Potash West has defined two flowsheets for extracting potash from a ‘world-scale' potash-bearing greensand resource in Western Australia

SGS Metallurgy chosen for hydromet testing of Dutwa nickel ores

Wednesday , 25 Jan 2012
African Eagle is moving ahead with metallurgical testwork on its big Dutwa nickel resource in Tanzania and has contracted SGS Metallurgy of Perth to undertake this.

Lundin outlines big Neves Corvo copper-zinc mine ore handling options

Wednesday , 25 Jan 2012
Study on future materials handling options for one of Europe's biggest underground mines has been completed and suggests two options for the 5 million t/y copper/zinc mining operation

FL Smidth awarded Latin American copper mine equipment contract

Tuesday , 17 Jan 2012
The Danish HQ'd company has been awarded a mjor contract for the supply of mineral processing equipment for a South American copper mining operation

Successful pilot plant testing of complex ore from NICO project

Thursday , 12 Jan 2012
SGS Lakefield has completed a successful pilot plant testing on a complex gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper ore from Fortune Minerals NICO project from Canada's NWT.

ABB wins key undersea mining electrical equipment contract

Wednesday , 11 Jan 2012
Multinational electrical specialist ABB has won a key contract to supply key medium voltage power technology for one of the world's first commercial undersea mining projects.

Chinese acquire Polish mining wheel loader/dozer manufacturer

Wednesday , 11 Jan 2012
Major Chinese wheel loader manufacturer has made its first foreign acquisition by buying Poland's HSW and Dressta loader and dozer manufacturer and sales arm

Caterpillar makes further inroads into Chinese longwall coal

Wednesday , 11 Jan 2012
Cat's acquisition of Bucyrus, and thus of DBT, is paying dividends in China with the sale of another automated longwall coal system.

New partial roasting process to purify contaminated copper and gold concentrates

Tuesday , 27 Dec 2011
Outotec has come up with two new roasting processes for eliminating impurities from copper and gold concentrates.

Copper concentrator for new mine in Mongolia

Friday , 23 Dec 2011
FL Smidth has been contracted by Mongolian mining company Mongolyn Alt, to supply copper concentrator equipment and technology for a new mine

Atlas Copco broadens offering for mining and tunnelling with GIA acquisition

Friday , 16 Dec 2011
Major mining equipment manufacturer, Atlas Copco, is broadening its range through the acquisition of mining and tunnelling equipment specialist, GIA Industri.

New tailings treatment plant for Svappavaara iron ore

Friday , 16 Dec 2011
Metallurgical specialist technology company Outotec has been awarded a tailings treatment package for the old Svappavaara iron ore mine in northern Sweden.

France's AREVA monitoring programme for uranium miner health

Tuesday , 13 Dec 2011
French nuclear giant, AREVA, is conducting an ongoing programme to monitor the health of workers exposed to uranium in its west African mines.

China builds its first unmanned mining train

Tuesday , 13 Dec 2011
A Chinese company has designed and built the country's first unmanned mining train which it says will reduce energy costs as well as improve safety.

Orbite CEO touts ‘disruptive technology' with Alumina-polymetallic project in Quebec

Wednesday , 30 Nov 2011
Orbite's shareprice surges on the roll out of a scoping study built around proprietary technology that extracts alumina and others metals and materials from aluminous ores.

New mine scheduling software introduced by Gemcom

Wednesday , 30 Nov 2011
Mining software specialist, Vancouver-based Gemcom, has introduced the latest upgrade to its mine scheduling software.

ABB wins big Australian zinc mine hoist contract

Tuesday , 22 Nov 2011
ABB has won a $24 million mine hoist order for Xstrata Zinc's George Fisher zinc mine near Mt. Isa,, Queensland as a key part of the mine's big expansion project

World's largest gear-driven mills for Latin American copper project

Thursday , 17 Nov 2011
FL Smidth has received an order for two SAG mills and two ball mills for a major Latin American copper project.

Ausenco awarded Create phase contract for US$1.8 bn Kazakh copper project

Saturday , 12 Nov 2011
Australian engineer/contractor Ausenco has announced it has been awarded a $45million Create phase engineering contract for the big Kazakhmys Bozshakol copper project in Kazakhstan.