Highlights at HILLHEAD 2024

Mining giant Rio Tinto also wants to grow aggressively in the lithium sector

Rio Tinto wants to grow by purchasing deposits and attractive projects in the lithium market. CEO Jakob Strausholm has now outlined the strategy of the billion-euro mining group. This could put the...

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Issue 10/2016

Mining in Brazil offers an array of opportunities

The mining sector in Brazil is not only an important raw materials supplier for German industry, it also offers companies ...

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Issue 10/2013

Mining is alive!

4th International Colloquium on Non-Blasting Rock Extraction

Around 130 highly specialized professionals followed the invitation of the Institute of Mining at TU Bergakademie Freiberg to the 4th International Colloquium on “Non-Blasting Rock Extraction”...

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Issue 01-02/2021 Optimistic outlook

Mining is essential to stop climate change

T‌he mining machinery industry in Germany expects a decline in sales of 10 to 15 % in 2020. Nevertheless, the industry is optimistic about the future, because only state-of-the-art mining technology...

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Issue 10/2017

Mining machinery manufacturers from Germany back on the road to success

M‌ining machinery manufacturers from Germany are back on track, with incoming orders increasing by 45 % in the first half of the year. Closer cooperation with Australia is set to bring further growth....

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Issue 01-02/2018

Mining machinery manufacturers reverse trend

Mining machinery manufacturers producing in Germany have achieved a turnaround. After falling earnings for four years in a row, the industry now anticipates a black zero for the trend in sales in...

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Issue 05/2017

Mining new discoveries with Weir Minerals

Change is pervasive and demands adaptation. With declining ore grade and low commodity prices, the mining industry has had to adapt to stay competitive. As merger and acquisitions opportunities and...

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Issue 11/2013

Mining of ore

Reliable removal of overburden in Mexico‘s second largest open-pit mine

1 Creating the largest open-pit mine in Mexico Goldcorp Inc., headquartered in Vancouver (British Columbia), is one of the world’s fastest growing gold producers. The company has a total of...

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Issue 10/2009 Product News

Mining screens standardized globally

In a 3-year development project, Metso has fundamentally reworked its range of mining screens (Fig.). Besides meeting the specific requirements of the mining industry for higher feed rates, greater...

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Issue 07-08/2018

Mining technology also delivers a brilliant performance in the quarry

T‌he Truffer AG extract Vals Quartzite in their own quarry, and have set themselves the goal to carry out all further processing steps, up to the finished product, exclusively in the quarry in Vals....

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