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26.03.2019 (2583 Clicks)

Agreement with Kalium Lakes: K+S secures Access to Potassium Sulfate in Australia

• Agreement to purchase up to 90,000 tonnes of potassium sulfate a year possibly starting 2021
• Distribution of specialty fertilizer planned in Australia, Asia and Oceania
• Agreement supports Shaping 2030 Group strategy

23.03.2019 (3537 Clicks)

Vale informs on the Extraordinary Independent Consulting Committee for Dam Safety

Engineer Pedro Repetto was integrated to the Committee

Vale informs that the Board of Directors decided to change the composition of the Extraordinary Independent Consulting Committee for Dam Safety (“CIAESB”) with the sole objective of equipping it with even greater international technical expertise in dams, promoting the integration of Pedro Repetto to this Committee, replacing Alberto Fabrini.

The CIAESB will be dedicated to providing support to the Board of Directors in questions related to the diagnosis of safety conditions, management and risk mitigation related to Vale’s ore dams, also providing recommendations of actions to strengthen safety conditions of those dams.

All the indications for the composition of this committee were based on recommendations of the international consulting company Korn Ferry.

Find below the final composition of the CIAESB:

Flávio Miguez de Mello (external independent member – Chairperson of the committee) – Civil engineer with specialization in hydraulics (1967) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with master's degree in Geology Science (1975) from UFRJ. Miguez is a reference in engineering of dams. He has taken courses and trainings in the USA, Canada and Portugal, has been teaching courses at several universities since 1968, has published more than 100 technical papers in Brazil and abroad, and has managed consulting companies and technical institutions in Brazil and abroad, among which, the International Commission of Large Dams, the Brazilian Committee on Dams, the National Academy of Engineering in Brazil, the School of Engineering of UFRJ, and received several academic and professional awards. He has worked on several dam projects in Brazil and abroad.

Willy Lacerda (external independent member) – Graduated in Civil Engineering by Escola Nacional de Engenharia da Universidade do Brasil (1958), Masters’ degree in Geotechnical Engineering from University of California - Berkeley (1969) and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from University of California - Berkeley (1976). He participated in the creation of the Geotechnical Institute of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1966. During his teaching as a professor at COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), from 1967 to 2007, he supervised over 50 Masters’ theses and 18 PhD dissertations. He has over 150 published papers in journals and academic congress publications. He is currently a collaborating professor at COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has experience in Civil Engineering, with emphasis in slope stability, mainly acting on the following matters: embankments on soft clay, earth dams, landslides, slope stability, collapsible soils, soil mechanics and tropical soils. He was President at Brazilian Association of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ABMS) from 1996 to 2000, where he currently is a partner and permanent member of the Board of Directors. Former president of JTC1 – Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, of the following three international societies: ISSMGE, ISRM and IAEG – from 2006 to 2010, where he currently stands as one of its core members. He received the title of Emeritus professor of UFRJ in October 2010. He was nominated for the National Academy of Engineering in Brazil (ANE) in 2012. He was nominated as Eminent Professor by Escola Politécnica of UFRJ in 2015. He is the coordinator of INCT - Geotechnical Institute for Rehabilitation of Slopes and Plains – REAGEO since 2008.

Pedro Repetto (external independent member) – Mr. Repetto is a licensed civil-geotechnical engineer with over 50 years of experience in over 500 projects in 28 countries, including Brazil. Before becoming an independent consultant in 2008, he was Principal and Vice President of URS Corporation in Denver, where he served as Mining Business Line Manager, Office Manager, and Manager of the Engineering Division, the Civil/Geotechnical Group, and the Mining Group. His areas of expertise in the mining industry include tailings storage facilities, heap leach facilities, waste rock dumps, pit slope stability and foundations for mining structures. He has participated in the design and evaluation of dozens of tailings facilities comprising all types of tailings deposition technologies, including conventional slurry, high-density thickened tailings and dry stacking (filtered tailings). Mr. Repetto was a Principal Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Catholic University of Peru for over 20 years. He served as an expert to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany for the organization and teaching of continuing education courses on mining wastes, including tailings. He has served as a Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator for three National Science Foundation-sponsored earthquake engineering research projects.

Source: Vale

                     

23.03.2019 (4130 Clicks)

Cimic´s UGL secures Karratha Gas Plant Contract

Cimic Group company UGL, as part of a joint venture, has been awarded a new contract for services on the Woodside Energy Limited operated Karratha Gas Plant (KGP).

23.03.2019 (2723 Clicks)

Vale Updates on Barão de Cocais Dam in Brazil

On Friday (22/3), Vale launched the protocol to initiate level 3 of the Mining Dams Emergency Action Plan (PAEBM) for the Sul Superior Dam at the Gongo Soco mine, in Barão de Cocais (MG), Brazil.

23.03.2019 (3890 Clicks)

Strabag: Financial Close of its project “Autopista al Mar 1” in Colombia completed

• USD 713 million project financing
• Seven international and one national bank are participating in the transaction

21.03.2019 (3408 Clicks)

bauma 2019: Continental makes Drivers’ Cabs digital – and Machine Operator’s Lives a whole lot easier“

• World premiere – the digital generation of the ProViu 360 camera system increases driver comfort and safety in construction and mining vehicles
• Displays for every need – bright, rugged and in three different sizes
• The modular driver’s workplace (mDWP) gives drivers the right information at exactly the right time

19.03.2019 (2678 Clicks)

Milestone for hard Rock Tunnelling: Final double Breakthrough Follo Line in Norway

The construction of Norway's longest railway tunnel marked a breakthrough for the use of tunnel boring machines in hard rock tunnelling. In Scandinavia long rail tunnels have hitherto been drilled and blasted rather than bored. In the Follo Line Project, the tunnel boring machines made a convincing case for themselves all the way through the extremely hard Norwegian rock. Four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) by Herrenknecht worked simultaneously to excavate the main part of two 20-kilometer railway tunnels between Oslo and Ski. On February 26, 2019, the final double breakthrough of the Double Shield TBMs 'Anna' and 'Magda' successfully completed the challenging mission and drew a spectacular close.

18.03.2019 (4012 Clicks)

Cimic's Thiess wins Contract in Botswana

Cimic Group’s global mining services provider, Thiess, through Majwe Mining Joint Venture (Majwe), has secured a A$1.7 billion contract at Debswana Diamond Company’s Jwaneng Mine Cut 9 project in Botswana.

14.03.2019 (3713 Clicks)

Rail Museum turns Spotlight on Role of Fugro’s geotechnical Expertise in HS2

Soil samples in the laboratory may seem a world apart from the gleaming high tech of the high speed train. Yet both share the spotlight in a current exhibition at the National Railway Museum in York giving a rare insight into the role of testing and prototyping in pushing the boundaries of rail engineering.

14.03.2019 (3319 Clicks)

Robbins EPB and Conveyors complete complex Lot 5 at Emisor Oriente in Mexico

Powerful TBM proves itself in both soft ground and hard rock