With a major new mine in development and a mining code that aims to promote more development in the sector, a high-ranking delegation from Algeria’s Ministry of Mines and Energy is currently visiting Australia to inspect mining operations in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia and to meet with industry leaders.
The visitors include the Presidents of Algeria’s [...]

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International Mining Project News is a bumper issue this week (April 25), of over 40 pages, including some ‘different’ items of news like some gallium projects. Lots of coal and iron ore news - the poundits say these are two of the commodities to be in. The eletter includes sections on prefeasibility and feasibility studies, [...]

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Amid the stock market doom and gloom, mining predictions remain good. When could we last make comments like that?
US coal production in 2008 will be near the record set in 2006, defying a slowing economy, said the National Mining Association (NMA) in its annual forecast for coal.  NMA also forecast record demand in 2008 for [...]

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With a global exploration expenditure of over $8 billion in 2007 and a budget of some $10 billion this year, drilling companies are posting great results these days. Exploration (drilling, sampling and surveying) is feaured in the February issue of International Mining. The issue will also feature an interview with Boart Longyear’s CEO, Paul Brunner.
Major [...]

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One of Australia’s most advanced widely dispersed automated safety systems has been installed by Multiskilled Resources Australia at the Antiene coal unloader in NSW’s Hunter Valley.
The high-speed integrated safety network - extending across a site spanning 6.5 km - incorporates Schneider Electric’s versatile Preventa multi-function programmable compact safety PLC technology to achieve integrated global and [...]

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