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Australia, NZ & South Pacific

A blend of gold

Pop quiz: what do you get when you combine first-rate exploration expertise with mining operational smarts? Great corporate governance and superb technical staff?

Cowal opens up New South Wales for Barrick

Although it is one of Barrick Gold Corp.'s smaller development projects, the Cowal gold mine is important to the company's production base in Australia. The project is located in cent...

Mineral liberation analyzer at U. of Nott.

The University of Nottingham's School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering (SChEME) in the United Kingdom has recently purchased a mineral liberation analyzer (MLA) from JKTech Pty. Ltd....

A Canadian mining company in South Africa

South African game preserves are home to an abundance of wildlife including the elephant. The 40-year-old South Deep gold mine 75-km west of the Johannesburg international airport, is the elephant of ...

People (October 01, 2003)

The Order of Engineers of Quebec, which represents 46,000 engineers, presented its 2003 Excellence Award to Ren Defour. This award recognizes his career in teaching, research management, and his cont...

Canada’s Top 40 by Revenue

Noranda Inc. has done it again, earning over $6 billion and crowning CMJ's list of Top 40 Canadian Mining Companies. It seems Noranda is at the top every year in recent memory, but this merely reflect...

The potash project: Thailand’s first underground mine

Thailand's new Minerals Act, which allows mining below 100 m depth without the property owner's consent, is being put to the test with the government considering its first mining lease application to ...

Metals news

Platinum, palladium prices and demand move in opposite directions in 2002, trend to continue in 2003According to a report by Johnson Matthey (JM), platinum demand during 2002 rose by 5% to a new high ...

Niobec unique in North America

Tucked away near the centre of Qubec is the Niobec mine and plant, North America's only ferroniobium producer. Moreover, with a 15% market share, it is the third largest in the world. Niobec's ferron...

Equipment and Suppliers News (June 01, 2003)

Trunnion magnet eliminates grinding ball fragmentsby Darrell MiltonGrinding ball fragments discharging from the ball mill of a world-class Canadian copper mining company were causing extreme wear to d...