Archive for the ‘Equipment’ Category
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
A DISPLAY of miners? banners from coalfields in the region will be one of the attractions at a Heritage Open Days event.
Colourful emblems created by miners? union lodges will be exhibited in Bowburn Community Centre, Bowburn, near Durham City.
Among them will be the village?s Edith Cavell banner, depicting the First ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
The Scotia Mine exploded more than 30 years ago, but the story could just as easily be pulled from today's headlines. An accumulation of methane gas in a poorly ventilated Eastern Kentucky coal mine led to a blast that killed 15 miners. A subsequent attempt to ventilate the mine ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Country's largest steel maker Steel Authority of India (Sail) today launched the first major expansion scheme for enhancing its iron ore loading facilities at Bolani mines in Orissa at an investment of Rs 120 crore.
Director Personnel Sail Ganatantra Ojha laid the foundation stone of the loading capacity. ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Paladin Energy Ltd., the Australian producer of uranium in Africa, said output is set to more than double this year as volumes increase at the Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia and a new project starts in Malawi.
Production should rise to 3.6 million pounds of uranium oxide in the year ending ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Zeehan Zinc Ltd. said it plans to sell its excess equipment in order to finance at least part of the exploration plan likely to cost around A$2.6 million over 12 months.
In a statement, the mining company said it has started drilling holes at its Tasmanian Comstock and Oceana properties with ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Diamond explorer Lonrho Mining (NHY.BE ) plans to sell 80% of its interest in South Africa’s Schmidtsdrift diamond mine for $13,35-million in order to be able to focus on the development of its Lulo diamond project in Angola.
The company stated that it entered into an option agreement to sell ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Leading engine manufacturer DEUTZ has developed a unique hybrid power unit for construction equipment that is designed to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
DEUTZ claim that their new hybrid drive has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by as much as 30%.
The drive unit is the mild hybrid type, consisting ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
A team from the provincial mining regulatory board (PMRB) of Eastern Samar will visit the chromite-rich Homonhon Island this week to verify reports that an illegal mining operation is going on in the historic island.
Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone said he would dispatch the PMRB team to the island to ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Indigenous South African mining equipment manufacturer Bell is “well ahead” of its global competitors in telematics, CEO Gary Bell says of his company’s proprietary advances with the satellite transmission of computerised truck-maintenance information.
Describing as “unbelievable” the analytical information that the JSE-listed company is currently able to provide to its global ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Docking equipment manufacturer Dock Design and Layout (DDL) Equipment has been awarded the southern Africa distributorship of the largest docking equipment manufacturers in Europe, Crawford Solutions.
DDL MD Andrew Stewart says that Crawford decided to appoint a South African materials handling company to represent Crawford in Central and Southern Africa, as ...
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