PFS confirms Mecsek Hills profitability

A prefeasibility study of ASX- and Aim-listed Wildhorse Energy’s Mecsek Hills underground coal gasification (UCG) project, in Hungary, has confirmed the project’s technical and economic potential. The study was for a 400 MWt project...

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Company Announcement: Astra sign MOU for thermal coal site in Nigeria

International diversified resources company, Astra Resources, has signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture development of a thermal coalexploration license in Nigeria.

Company Announcement: Astra Resorces list on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

The UK parent company of Astra Mining, Astra Resources, a global diversified mining company, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today at €1.50.

JSI Rock Tools

In order to meet the demands of a global market, since 1996 JSI has been striving to provide its quality products to overseas customers, and gradually emerges as one of the most credible and respected Chinese exporters in the industry.

Mike Salamon

Full name: Miklos Salamon Position: Director and executive chairperson New World Resources, since September 1, 2007; Co-President AMCI Capital; nonexecutive director OKD Main activity of New World Resources: Underground coal mining in Czech...

Nuclear energy revival ensuring future of uranium mining

World energy demand is growing. The International Energy Agency predicts that global energy requirements will increase by 40% by 2030. No less than 80% of this increase in demand will come from emerging and developing countries. Fossil fuel...

Nuclear energy revival ensuring future of uranium mining

Cover story on the worldwide revival of civil nuclear energy, which is enjoying major international political support, and its effects on uranium mining

Budget hole forces Poland to sell stake in mining company

The Polish government has sold some 10% of local mining company KGHM Polska Miedz, Europe’s largest, and the world’s sixth-largest, copper producer. The company is also the world’s number two silver producer, responsible for 7,34% of global...

Company Announcement: Knorr-Bremse Builds New Plant In Budapest

Attached please find a press release on: In the presence of Hungarian Economics Minister Istv·n Varga and the Chairman of the Knorr-Bremse Supervisory Board, Heinz Hermann Thiele, Knorr-Bremse today held the topping-out ceremony for its new rail...

DME to nail down titanium project rights issue by early June

South Africa’s Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) spokesperson Bheki Khumalo tells Mining Weekly that the issue of the mining right for the Xolobeni titanium bearing minerals mine on the Wild Coast, will be finalised by the end of May or...

Stackers and reclaimers from across the globe

Supplying components for the five stackers and four bucket wheel reclaimers for Assmang’s greenfields Khumani iron-ore export mine, in the Northern Cape, became an international initiative, with the project contractors battling to find...