Mining

Work at the Maules Creek project, the largest coal mine under construction in Australia, begin in January 2014.

Teck Resources has provided an update on its Elk Valley water management programme.

Teck Resources has delayed the restart of its Quintette mine as its seeks to cut CAPEX.

Caterpillar’s MineStar system provides mine management teams with broad suite of technologies.

One Eye Industries (OEI) provide a case study in hydraulic fluid filtration for a Komatsu 5500 shovel.

Caterpillar, the largest manufacturer of mining equipment, has announced a 37% drop in mining sales due to “lower end-user demand”.

Despite continued weakness in orders for its mining equipment, Metso believes the worst may be behind it.

The US MSHA has released new rules for reducing miners’ exposure to coal dust in underground and opencast coal mines.

OKD has signed a deal with the Czech government to continue operations at its Paskov hard coking coal mine in the Ostrava region.

Prairie has confirmed that the geology of the Lublin coal project in Poland could use modern mining methods to reduce operating costs.

How lubrication can help to solve some of the operational challenges facing today’s mining industry.

Current and future trends in coal mine water management.

Anglo American has selected GE’s ABMet technology to remove nitrate and selenium from wastewater discharge at its coal mine in B.C.

Walter Energy has announced that it will begin idling its Canadian operations in April 2014, two coal mines in British Columbia.

Hexagon, has entered into an agreement to acquire Mintec Inc, a resource modelling, optimisation, mine planning and scheduling software developer.