28.01.2020 (820 Clicks)
Costain appoints Rail Sector Director
Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, has appointed Simon Ellison as rail sector director.
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28.01.2020 (724 Clicks)
Vale informs on the Sul Inferior Dam
Vale informed that it activated the Level 2 of the Emergency Action Plan for Mining Dams (PAEBM) of the Sul Inferior Dam, of the Gongo Soco Mine, in Barão of Cocais (MG). Due to the heavy rains in the region, there was erosion in the inner part of the structure's reservoir, which nonetheless remains stable.
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28.01.2020 (770 Clicks)
Endomines signs LoI with Transatlantic Mining to purchase US Grant Mine and Mill and Kearsarge Gold Project
Endomines AB announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Transatlantic Mining Corp., to purchase the US Grant Mine and Mill in conjunction with the Lease Assignment of the Kearsarge Gold Project in the Virginia City Mining District in Montana, USA.
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27.01.2020 (911 Clicks)
Golden Beaver Award for Jack Brockway: Major Recognition for Herrenknecht U.S. Manager
Jack Brockway, President of Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA, received the prestigious Golden Beaver Award 2020 in Los Angeles on Friday, January 17, 2020. The association of leading representatives of the U.S. construction industry honored Jack Brockway's achievements in outstanding projects and technological advances in mechanized tunnelling with the Service & Supply Award.
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24.01.2020 (811 Clicks)
World-first public Database of Mine Tailings Dams aims to prevent deadly Disasters
Environmental organisation GRID-Arendal with support from the UN Environment Program has launched the world’s first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage facilities.
The database, the Global Tailings Portal, was built by Norway-based GRID-Arendal as part of the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, which is led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish National Pension Funds’ Council on Ethics, with support from the UNEP. The initiative is backed by funds with more than $US13 trillion under management.
Professor Elaine Baker from the School of Geosciences is director of the GRID-Arendal office at the University of Sydney and has been a driving force in the foundation of the database, which was launched at Westminster Abbey, London.
“This portal could save lives,” said Professor Baker, who is senior expert at GRID-Arendal globally. “Tailing dams are getting bigger and bigger. Mining companies have found most of the highest-grade ores and are now mining lower-grade ones, which create more waste. With this information, the entire industry can work towards reducing dam failures in the future.”
The release of the Global Tailings Portal coincides with the one-year anniversary of the tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, which killed 270 people. After that disaster, a group of institutional investors led by the Church of England Pensions Board asked 726 of the world’s largest mining companies to disclose details about their tailings dams. Many of the companies complied, and the information they released has been incorporated into the database.
Until now, there has been no central database detailing the location and quantity of the mining industry’s liquid and solid waste, known as tailings. The waste is typically stored in embankments called tailings dams, which have periodically failed with devastating consequences for communities, wildlife and ecosystems.
The database will allow users to view detailed information on more than 1,900 tailings dams, categorised by location, company, dam type, height, volume and risk, among other factors.
“Most of this information has never before been publicly available,”, said Kristina Thygesen, GRID-Arendal’s program leader for geological resources and a member of the team that worked on the portal. When GRID-Arendal began in-depth research on mine tailings dams in 2016, very little data was accessible. In a 2017 report on tailings dams, co-published by GRID and the UN Environment Program, one of the key recommendations was to establish an accessible public-interest database of tailings storage facilities.
“This database brings a new level of transparency to the mining industry, which will benefit regulators, institutional investors, scientific researchers, local communities, the media and the industry itself,” Ms Thygesen said.
Source: GRID-Arendal, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney
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23.01.2020 (780 Clicks)
Sika invests in Supply Chain in Colombia
Sika has invested in the production of concrete admixtures, acrylic liquid applied membranes, and mortars in Barranquilla, the fourth-largest city in Colombia, and has relocated and expanded the activities of an existing factory to the new state-of-the-art plant. The factory supplies the attractive Caribbean market and the northern part of Colombia and enables further growth.
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22.01.2020 (705 Clicks)
Cimic Group´s UGL secures Contracts in Mining Sector
Cimic Group company UGL has secured contracts to provide maintenance, shutdown and project services for its clients in the mining sector.
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22.01.2020 (802 Clicks)
Turquoise Hill appoints new Director
Turquoise Hill Resources announced the appointment of George Burns to the Company’s Board of Directors as an independent director.
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21.01.2020 (924 Clicks)
Orica launches Underground Blast Design Software to boost Productivity and reduce Costs
Orica, the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems, announced the release of its new blast design and modelling software for underground mining applications, ShotPlus Underground.
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21.01.2020 (807 Clicks)
Balfour Beatty successfully electrified Rail Lines between Bristol and Cardiff in UK
Balfour Beatty, working on behalf of Network Rail, successfully completed the electrification of 77 km of the Great Western Railway (GWR) line between Bristol and Cardiff; a significant contribution to Network Rail’s overall Greater West Electrification Programme to electrify 275 km of train line between Cardiff and London.
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11.07.2023
GeoResources Journal 2-2023
Special Topic: Focus on raw material security and supply chain
GeoResources Journal 2-2023 is dedicated to the main topic areas of mining, tunnelling, geotechnics and energy, as well as the special topic: Focus on raw material security and supply chain....
11.07.2023
Game Tip – Go Goals!
The United Nations have created the “Go Goals!” game for children. You can help to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are invited to use the game in your environment...
11.07.2023
The first Segment Gasket with CE Marking
Tunnel construction places high demands on the safety and quality of the construction products used. During this demanding environment, Sealable has reached a remarkable milestone as a pioneer: the ...
21.09.2023 - 27.09.2023
XIV IAEG Congress 2023 - Chengdu, China
26.09.2023 - 28.09.2023
POWTECH 2023
27.09.2023 - 28.09.2023 17:00
HTU-EU-2023 - Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe
28.09.2023 - 29.09.2023
AusIMM New Leaders Summit 2023

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (1669 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.


Liederbuch für Berg- und Hüttenleute - das Original - modern überarbeitet!
11. May 2017 (2949 Clicks)
Das Liederbuch für Berg- und Hüttenleute des Berg- und Hüttenmännischen Vereins ist wieder lieferbar. Die neue, 15. Auflage ist inhaltlich umfassend und modern überarbeitet. Im Auftritt bleibt es klassisch und ist hochwertig sowie langlebig verarbeitet. Dies ist die einzige authentische Neuauflage des originalen Liederbuchs für Berg- und Hüttenleute des Berg- und Hüttenmännischen Vereins. Für zu Hause, den Knappenchor und die Kneipe.


31.08.2023 (164 Clicks)
Australia: 400 mine jobs in limbo due to Queensland Government decision on QCoal’s Glenden
The State Government’s decision to pass legislation forcing mining comp...


04.09.2023 (138 Clicks)
Herrenknecht announces final breakthrough for Silvertown Tunnel
Tunnelling at the Silvertown project in London on track for success: using th...


01.09.2023 (135 Clicks)
Metso’s headquarters moves to Matinkylä, Espoo
Metso moves its headquarters to Matinkylä, Espoo, in September 2023, and...


30.08.2023 (126 Clicks)
Elebbre uses latest auction tech to remarket mine and construction equipment in Chile
Global engineering, procurement and construction giant Bechtel chooses Latin ...
