Following on from the recent item about initiatives to overcome the Australian mineral industry skill shortages, METS (Minerals Engineering Technical Services) has developed a new mentoring program. Jason Stirbinkis, General Manager explains: “Young metallurgists or process engineers and the companies that employ them face a quandary.”
For the metallurgist it’s “I want the responsibility and breadth that [...]

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The latest approaches to safe and economical management of rock dumps will be the focus of an inaugural seminar to be held in Perth next March. Professor Andy Fourie, from the Australian Centre for Geomechanics based at The University of Western Australia, said the First International Seminar on the Management of Rock Dumps, Stockpiles and Heap [...]

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This issue of IMPN includes the astonishing news that a coal mining company is acquiring 10 new longwall mining systems and 12 new sets of gateroad development equipment. No it is not a company in China but is New World Resources, leading producer of hard coal in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. The major [...]

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International Mining, is debating international project studies in the December 2007 issue, with contributions being lined up to keep the debate going in 2008. We welcome further comment, here or send to john@im-mining.com.
Dorothy Kosich, on Mineweb, recently noted that Haywood Securities’ Kerry Smith has suggested the suspension of the Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project due to [...]

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A new wave of economic reform, social and physical infrastructure capacity building and renewed commitment to sustainable development is essential if Australians are to benefit from the best opportunities in the minerals industry in a generation, according to the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA). In his opening address to the 2007 Sustainable Development Conference in Cairns, [...]

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