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BC EXPORTS

BC expected to top export growth charts in 2 yrs, coal hit hard

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Back-to-back double-digit increases will vault British Columbia's (BC’s) international exports to the top of the growth charts over the next two years, despite the expectation that coal exports will decline by 12% in 2013, Export Development...

By: Henry Lazenby

17th May 2013

COAL

Colombia coal output slides 21.4% in Q1 – government

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Colombia, the world's fourth-largest exporter of coal, said on Wednesday it produced 18.4-million tonnes of coal in the first quarter, a drop of 21.4% from the same quarter last year, due to labour disputes as well as port and rail disruptions....

By: Reuters

15th May 2013

OIL INFRASTRUCTURE

Arch Coal and Meritage Midstream to form oil transshipment JV

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US number two coal producer Arch Coal on Wednesday announced it had entered into a letter of intent to create a joint venture (JV) with fossil fuel specialist Meritage Midstream Services II to develop a rail terminal to provide crude oil handling,...

By: Henry Lazenby

15th May 2013

LITHIUM

Canada Lithium appoints new CFO, plant commissioning progressing

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Toronto-listed Canada Lithium on Friday announced that VP for finance Halina McGregor has been appointed CFO to replace Germaine Coombs, who served as CFO during the company's transitional phase from exploration company to mine developer....

By: Henry Lazenby

12th April 2013

Materials Handling

High-tensile mesh systems provide safer working environment underground

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The increasing depth of ore extraction in the South African mining industry leads to new challenges in hard-rock underground mines, with conventional ground-support systems, which can often not withstand rock-bursting ground caused by seismicity,...

By: Zandile Mavuso

5th April 2013

Materials Handling

Loader attachments new to market

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Supplier of compact multipurpose diggers, loaders and attachments, Avant South Africa (SA) has introduced several new loader attachments to the underground mining industry this year.

By: Chantelle Kotzé

29th March 2013

ENVIRONMENT

BC Coastal First Nations air anti-oil commercial

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The Coastal First Nations alliance last week aired a television commercial warning British Columbians of the dangers and costs of bringing oil tankers to British Columbia's (BC's) pristine coastal waters. The commercial opened with the original...

By: Henry Lazenby

25th March 2013

MINING SERVICES

Commission decision on DRA/ELB JV expected within 3 months

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Materials handling groups DRA and ELB expected the Competition Comission to approve their proposed ARDBEL joint venture (JV) within three months, DRA said in a statement on Wednesday. In January, the companies announced the formation of the JV to...

By: Natalie Greve

13th March 2013

RAIL TRANSPORT

MAC and CRS propose amendments to new rail freight Act

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The Canadian Coalition of Rail Shippers (CRS) and the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) on Thursday in the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities proposed six amendments to the Fair Rail Freight Service...

By: Henry Lazenby

28th February 2013

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City	Company	Country	Industry Term
Toronto Bogota Johannesburg	Export Development Canada Cerrejón Drummond Glencore Arch Coal Black Thunder Terminal BNSF Railway Meritage Midstream Goldcorp Golder Associates Sherritt International Mining Weekly Avant SA Materials Handling Coastal Enbridge Exxon	United States Colombia Australia China Japan Switzerland South Africa Canada	Energy Sector Natural Gas Shale Gas Sizable Liquid Natural Gas Terminal Capacity Coal Miner Retail Sales Transport Coal Producer Crude Oil Crude Oil Handling Crude Oil Production Activity Crude Oil Terminal Crude Oil Transloading Operations Downstream Refiners Required Rail Infrastructure Finance Conventional Ground-support Systems Energy Absorption Capacities High-tensile Steel Wire Mesh Systems Developer Mild Steel Mining Steel Tensile Chain-link Mesh Systems Forklift Gold Mining Underground Mining Applications Underground Mining Industry Wood Processing Energy Energy Trading Oil Oil Sands Oil Spill Oil Tankers Stricken Oil Tanker Mine Developers Pit-to-port Engineering Solutions Value Chain
Person	Province Or State	Continent	Facility
Peter Hall Paul Lang Steve Huckaby Germaine Coombs Halina McGregor Bart Schoevaerts Art Sterritt Paul Simon Pierre Gratton	British Columbia Nova Scotia Campbell County Wyoming Ontario Alaska Alberta	Europe Africa	Black Thunder Mine Black Thunder Terminal Institute Of Chartered Accountants
Product	Technology	Region	Currency
Lithium Carbonate Avant Avant 200	Process Control Service Level Agreement	South Africa	USD