(Source: Department of Industry and Science - Australian Government) A new Growth Centre established by the Australian Government will ensure Australia's mining equipment, technology and services sector is well placed to provide innovative solutions to the global resources sector. The Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) Growth Centre, known as METS Ignite,...
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Building on Australia’s strengths in mining technology and innovation (Department of Industry and Science - ...
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Building on Australia’s strengths in mining technology and innovation (Australian Government)
(Source: Australian Government) A new Growth Centre established by the Australian Government will ensure Australia's mining equipment, technology and services sector is well placed to provide innovative solutions to the global resources sector. The Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) Growth Centre, known as METS Ignite, was launched today at the...
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Samarco mine disaster: BHP's reputation on the line as tragedy deepens
It took a week but BHP Billiton and its partner Vale have agreed to set up an emergency fund in Brazil after seeing first hand the damage done by the tragic dam failure. The gesture, taken overnight, comes as the two mining giants are on the precipice of a public relations nightmare. The fund is speculated to be an estimated $100 million, which is a start. It follows allegations by a Brazilian prosecutor that it was "no accident" but human error that caused the disaster that has killed six and left 22 missing. The allegations, raised by Minas Gerais Brazil's state environmental prosecutor Carlos Eduardo Pinto, were based on a report...
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Support announced for training program to up-skill workers at DME (Department of Innovation and Advanced ...
(Source: Department of Innovation and Advanced Learning of Prince Edward Island) Support for a training program at Diversified Metal Engineering LTD. (DME) under the Canada-PEI Job Grant was officially announced today by Workforce and Advanced Learning Minister Richard Brown. 'DME's training program for employees in brewery equipment fabrication will enhance their skill-sets, particularly in the areas of technology and new processes, and enhance the company's long term competitiveness,' said the...
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Support announced for training program to up-skill workers at DME (Government of Prince Edward Island) ...
(Source: Government of Prince Edward Island) Support for a training program at Diversified Metal Engineering LTD. (DME) under the Canada-PEI Job Grant was officially announced today by Workforce and Advanced Learning Minister Richard Brown. 'DME's training program for employees in brewery equipment fabrication will enhance their skill-sets, particularly in the areas of technology and new processes, and enhance the company's long term competitiveness,' said the minister. 'Because of...
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Vietnam’s initiatives hailed at 12th ASEM foreign ministers’ meeting (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) (VNA) - Vietnam made active contributions to the success of the freshly concluded 12th Foreign Ministerial Meeting of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Luxembourg, while its initiatives voiced during the event were welcomed by many member countries, stated Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son. The country's proposal on the organisation of the 'ASEM conference on natural disaster management and mitigation: innovations and technologies for sustainable...
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World's Biggest Dam Drains, Intensifying Zambian Power Crisis
Zambia’s power deficit will widen by 42 percent by December as low water levels at the world’s biggest dam hobble hydropower production in the southern African country, Energy Minister Dora Siliya said. The shortfall will increase to 1,000 megawatts from 700 megawatts now, she told lawmakers Thursday in the capital, Lusaka. The Kariba dam, where Africa’s second-largest copper producer generates almost half of its 2,300 megawatt of total capacity, is running out of water, and output next year will have to be lower than in 2015 or stop altogether, Siliya...
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Tshimenga shines in Nkana win over Mufulira Wanderers (FAZ - Football Association of Zambia)
(Source: FAZ - Football Association of Zambia) Freddy Soutra Tshimenga netted a hat trick in Nkana's 3 - 0 win against Mufulira Wanderers on Sunday. The Congolese striker opened the scoring in the 15th minute and his hat trick was completed when he scored two quickfire goals in the 49th and 51st first minutes, taking his goal tally to ten goals in the current campaign. Tshimenga became the only player to score a hat...
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Interim Management Statement (The Weir Group plc)
(Source: The Weir Group plc) Interim Management Statement for the period to 2 November 20151 Highlights: Full year earnings expectations broadly in line with current market consensus2 £25m incremental cost savings, bringing annualised impact of actions taken in last year to over £110m3 Q3 Group order input4 down 29% year-on-year and 8% compared to Q2 2015 Minerals orders resilient in increasingly challenging markets Further declines in Oil & Gas activity - US oil rig count down 14% in the past two months Operational progress in Power & Industrial; margins increased Weir Technology Advisory Board established; High-horsepower crusher launched Keith Cochrane, Chief Executive, commented: 'The...
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From Australia to Zambia, slowing China economy causes pain
China's economic troubles have dropped on the doorstep of a sun-weathered house at 18 Edgar St. in Port Hedland on Australia's northwest coast. Four years ago, the 50-year-old home, fabricated from cheap asbestos cement, sold for the equivalent of $1.3 million. It's now for sale again — recently priced at $310,000. What happened to $1 million in home equity? It vanished down the China sinkhole. From Australia to Zambia, Chile to Indonesia, the pain of China's sharp economic slowdown is being felt in the form of depressed commodity prices, elevated unemployment and shrunken home prices in towns like Port Hedland that once thrived from supplying materials to Chinese factories. China's...
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Mount Isa Mines Copper Smelter and Townsville Copper Refinery extension announcement (Glencore Xstrata plc)
(Source: Glencore Xstrata plc) 10 November 2015 Glencore and the Queensland Government have finalised new environmental licensing conditions which allows the Mount Isa Mines Copper Smelter to operate to the end of 2022. As a result, we are proud to announce that the Mount Isa Mines Copper Smelter and Townsville Copper Refinery will remain open beyond their respective planned closure dates of 2016 and 2017. This decision follows more than 12 months of internal work and...
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Boss of Adani's Australian arm linked to mining pollution in Zambia
Jeyakumar Janakaraj, who would head the controversial Carmichael mine project, allegedly worked at a copper mine that leaked toxic water into a river...
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Adani boss oversaw mine at centre of African pollution disaster
Adani Australia's chief executive officer was in charge of an African copper mine which allowed a flood of dangerous pollutants to pour into a Zambian river, the ABC can reveal. Jeyakumar Janakaraj has been chief executive of Adani's Australian operations since leaving Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia in 2013. ......
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More Miners Lose Jobs, China Copper Mines May Shut
[Zambian Watchdog] China Copper Mines in Chingola has become the latest mining company to lay off its workers, announcing over 200 job cuts and the suspension of US$50 million worth of investment which would have resulted in the creation of 1,000 jobs. ......
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KCM to Close Nchanga Mine, 2503 to Lose Jobs
[Zambian Watchdog] Konkola Copper Mines will this week place its Nchanga Underground Mine on care and maintenance, according to the Post newspaper. ......
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Glencore's Massive Debts Hurt Most Those Who Have the Least
For more than a decade, copper mines in Africa proved a lucrative bet for Glencore Plc, accounting for almost a third of its production of the metal in the first half of the year. Executives including the company’s billionaire chief, Ivan Glasenberg, were happy to highlight the economic benefits they brought to places like Kitwe, Zambia, where most of the local economy is dependent on the company’s Mopani mining complex. Now, with $30 billion in debt, an 18 percent drop in copper prices and plunging shares, Glencore is targeting Kitwe and other Africa mining operations to help save itself. All of Glencore’s copper production in Zambia, and most...
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KCM Committed to Zambian Ops
[Times of Zambia] Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) says it is yet to make a decision on whether or not to place Nchanga Mine in Chingola under care and maintenance. ......
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He Wenbo Met Guillermo Shinno, Vice Minister of Mines of Peru (China Minmetals Corporation)
(Source: China Minmetals Corporation) On October 23, Chairman He Wenbo met in Beijing a visiting delegation headed by Guillermo Shinno Huamaní, Vice Minister of Mines of Peru. They exchanged views on how to further expand and deepen cooperation. He Wenbo extended his welcome to Guillermo Shinno and his delegation, and expressed his gratitude to the Government of Peru and the Ministry of Mines of Peru for their support and help to Minmetals in its projects in Peru, particularly the Las Bambas Copper Project. He...
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Report concern over Adani Australia mine chief Jeyakumar Janakara
A report has questioned Adani Mining's suitability to develop a coal mine in Australia because its chief executive has links to an earlier pollution case. Jeyakumar Janakara was at Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) from 2008 to 2013. In 2010, the firm pleaded guilty to water pollution charges. Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) submitted a report urging regulators to reconsider Adani's Carmichael mine. Adani Mining called the questioning of Mr Janakara's record...
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From Australia to Zambia, slowing China economy causes pain
China's economic troubles have dropped on the doorstep of a sun-weathered house at 18 Edgar St. in Port Hedland on Australia's northwest coast. Four years ago, the 50-year-old home, fabricated from cheap asbestos cement, sold for the equivalent of $1.3 million. It's now for sale again — recently priced at $310,000. What happened to $1 million in home equity? It vanished down the China sinkhole. From Australia to Zambia, Chile to Indonesia, the pain of China's sharp economic slowdown is being felt in the form of depressed commodity prices, elevated unemployment and shrunken home prices in towns like Port Hedland that once thrived from supplying materials to Chinese factories. China's...
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