Despite change in leadership, Vale unlikely to greatly increase its steel investment

The new CEO of Brazilian major mining group Vale, the world’s number two miner in terms of market capitalisation, Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira, has reaffirmed the company’s core focus. “It is important to highlight that Vale is a mining...

Company uses design optimisation tools to reduce project costs

Escalating project costs in the materials handling sector are a challenge across the board, reports materials handling company ThyssenKrupp Materials Handling (TKMH), a division of ThyssenKrupp PDNA Engineering.

Company supplies 
alignment-free 
drives

Power and control solutions company Bonfiglioli says it has supplied its alignment-free drives to materials-handling company ThyssenKrupp for discharge and spillage conveyors for use at global gold company Lihir Gold Limited’s process plant...

Baffinland Iron seeks partner for Nunavut project

TSX-listed Baffinland Iron Mines is hoping to secure a strategic partner for its $4,1-billion Mary River iron ore project within the next two to three months, chairperson and acting CEO Richard McCloskey said on Tuesday. Baffinland is looking to...

Company Announcement: 150th Anniversary: Longest Established Global Specialist In The Design Of Grinding & Comminution Technology @ Electra Mining 2010

Attached please find a press release on: Polysius, established in Johannesburg in 1967, is a German global specialist in the design and supply of complete plants including grinding and other processing equipment to the cement and minerals...

New empowered project house to target mining pipeline

A new black economic-empowered (BEE) project house, which will target large-scale Southern African projects, has been formed, following a merger between aspects of the giant ThyssenKrupp technology group and the industrial unit of PD Naidoo &...

Daily podcast – March 23, 2010

EU antitrust regulators to look into whether world number one iron ore supplier Vale is abusing its dominant position; and First Uranium expects to start construction of a key mine-waste storage facility, in South Africa, by November.

Los Pelambres mine, Chile

A copper mine, situated in Chile

Vale in €965m deal to lift stake in ThyssenKrupp subsidiary

Brazilian iron-ore giant Vale on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp to increase its stake in that company’s subsidiary, CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico, to 26,87%. This was up from the 10%...

SKF South Africa

SKF South Africa is exhibiting items from all of our five key platforms, i.e. seals, bearings and units, lubrication systems, mechatronics and services.

Bisha gold and base metals project, Eritrea

The project will involve the construction of a conventional openpit mine.

Moly Mines inks 10yr offtake pact with ThyssenKrupp

TSX- and ASX-listed Moly Mines has agreed to sell all of the molybdenum produced over the first ten years of production from its Spinifex Ridge project, in Western Australia, to Germany's ThyssenKrupp Metallurgie (TKMet). TKMet will buy the...