Following media pressure in the UK and elsewhere, Anglo American has defended its investment in Zimbabwe. Anglo is to be commended on its position. Investment of this nature can be to the benefit of a great number of the country’s people, especially if that investment is controlled by a company like Anglo, a driver in [...]

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The Pan-European Reserves and resources Reporting Committee (PERC) was formed in 2006 to resume the work of the previous IMM Reserves Committee which had developed the original 1991 IMM Code, and to take responsibility for managing and updating the Reporting Code 2001 which had been developed under the aegis of the Committee for Mineral Reserves [...]

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Professor Ernesto Villaescusa, Industry Chair in Mining Rock Mechanics, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology notes that he “read with interest the article entitled Strata control” in International Mining’s May issue. He comments: “Leading photo. It raises a lot of questions… For example if this would be a typical installation practice, the [...]

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Today (June 10) at the MassMin conference in Lulea, Sweden, Greg Baiden of Laurentian University, Canada (also Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems) presented on a newly developed Underground Positioning System (UPS). The UPS has a range of some 2 km through rock and accuracy better than 3%. Mine trials are to be undertaken [...]

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The latest issue of International Mining Project News is now available (May 23). In addition to almost 35 feasibility and prefeasibility studies, it reports on some 40 projects in development and notes a higher than normal number of new mines going into production over the past two weeks. Big news is Couer d’Alene Mines noting [...]

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