Dräger has unveiled its X-am 2800 multi-gas detector for personal monitoring, which can measure up to four gasses and is equipped with the new shock resistant CatEx sensor. Reliable warnings against gas-related hazards play an essential role in keeping people safe in the workplace. The new release detector simultaneously measures up to four gasses and has been optimized for use…
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Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan has agreed to sell its 85% stake in the Ensham coal mine in Queensland, Australia to Sungela, a Thungela Resources subsidiary, for A$340 million, reported Reuters. Full article.
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CO2Meter has released a new portable CO2 welding gas analyzer that verifies correct CO2 concentrations in welding gases mixes. The highly anticipated CM-1650 measures mixed cylinder gas or blended gas at a mixer to ensure the accuracy of your gas and purity of your welds.
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Fortescue Metals Group, through majority-owned joint venture Ivindo Iron, has signed a mining convention with the Gabonese government to start mining ore at the Belinga project in the second half of 2023. The convention governs all the legal, fiscal and regulatory regimes for the 4,500-square-kilometres project in northeast Gabon, including early development for production of up to 2 million tonnes…
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Canadian-based DeepRock Minerals has signed an option agreement with BHBC Exploração Mineral and RTB Geologia e Mineração to acquire the Esperança lithium property in southeast Brazil. The 2,969.15-hectare mineral claim package in the state of Minas Gerais is approximately 40 kilometres west of Sigma Lithium’s Grota do Cirilo property – the largest lithium hard rock deposit in the Americas. Per…
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Volt Carbon Technologies said it has acquired by staking a 100% owned Abamasagi Lake lithium project, northwest of Nakina, Ontario, Canada. The mining claims were registered directly by the junior resource company. Full story.
Read MoreMSHA reported that on Jan.17, a miner at Taiheiyo Cement Corp.’s Mojave Plant & Quarry, Kern, Calif., was fatally injured when his personal car collided with a customer truck. Both vehicles were traveling toward each other in opposite directions on an icy mine access road. Full story.
Read MoreMcLanahan Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire Diefenbach, an Italian manufacturer of filter presses and thickeners based out of Medolago, Italy. The two companies, which have been working together on projects since 2013, expect the acquisition to close during the second quarter of 2023. Diefenbach has been a leader in liquid-solid separation using filter presses since its founding in…
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Epiroc recently brought in its Mobilaris Situational Awareness and Mobilaris Onboard systems to improve the traffic flows at Oz Minerals’ Carrapateena copper-gold mine, one of the largest mining projects in South Australia. Full story.
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Freeport-McMoRan’s PT Freeport Indonesia Grasberg copper-gold operations have been halted due to significant rainfall and landslides in the area of its milling operations in Papua. Full story.
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