CHINA National Offshore Oil Corp has signed the first major supply deal with BG Group and agreed to take a stake in its $8b gas export plans.
15/05/2009
RED Rock Resources says it has purchased a $200,000 mobile gold treatment plant from Resource Gold Proprietary and plans to buy a second.
20/04/2009
ANALYSTS predict rising rubber prices will send conveyor belt prices through the roof, and impact the minerals processing sector.
18/07/2008
OUTOTEC will build an iron ore pelletizing plant for an Indian steel maker as part of a $121m agreement.
13/08/2008
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at businesses seeking emissions trading concessions, saying avoiding financial pain is “not do-able”.
26/09/2008
OUTOTEC has won an order from Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to design and deliver an iron processing plant.
10/09/2008
JOHN Holland has secured the $160 million contract to deliver Apache Energy’s Devil Creek Development Project (DCDP).
31/08/2009
HONEYWELL and Heat Transfer Research (HTRI) are collaborating to help industrial manufacturers more easily design heat exchanger equipment which is used in mineral processing plants.
27/10/2009
FOUR hundred and seventy experts have met for the CleanUp 09 conference which was held at the Hilton in Adelaide during September 2009.
30/09/2009
THE Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has backed Professor Garnaut’s climate change report, but warns the absence of a global climate agreement and transitional emissions trading scheme (ETS) could make it ‘environmentally ineffective’.
02/10/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Workers Union (AWU) has told the Federal Government that it needs to support the steel industry in it 10-point survival plan presentation.
20/04/2009
MINING contractor Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has published an article detailing the best practices to sustainably dispose of tailings at mine sites and processing plants.
11/11/2009
SEDGMAN has announced that it has retained two key minerals processing plant operation contracts worth $80 million.
02/06/2009
LEIGHTON Mining, part of Leighton Contractors' Resources Division, has teamed up with DRA Pacific, adding weight to their suite of coal-related services in the areas of materials handling and minerals processing.
26/11/2009
MINISTER for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr says she supports the Government new strategy for the steel industry.
31/07/2009
UNIFIED Theory (UTI) says that when designing and building a facility as complex as a large mineral processing plant, good communications between the designers and owner are essential.
30/06/2009
Advanced mathematical modelling is significantly improving the performance of unit operations used in the mineral processing industry.
02/12/2009
ONE of the Asia-Pacific’s leading steel companies, Bluescope Steel, is working in partnership with the global Konecranes group to optimise materials handling operations in Thailand while achieving a radical improvement in movement and storage of heavy coils at its biggest mineral processing plant there.
13/10/2009
The Parker Centre has recognised the collaborative research efforts of the Centre’s "Impacts of Mineralogy on Hydrometallurgy" project team and the PhD research of former student Dr Geoffrey Carter.
23/11/2009
The increasing complexity of industrial processing and manufacturing plants – and increasing employer liability for workplace accidents - is focusing attention on safety as the traditional Christmas-new year maintenance season approaches.
11/11/2009