by Gordon Barratt | May 6, 2021 | News
US President Joe Biden US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Wednesday that the White House has not decided on the fate of the Twin Metals copper mining project in Minnesota, as it works to balance economic growth and strong opposition from environmentalists....
by Gordon Barratt | May 6, 2021 | News
BHP’s Olympic Dam operation in South Australia. BHP has awarded a $15 million smelter maintenance contract at the Olympic Dam operation in South Australia to Boom Logistics. BHP has been setting Olympic Dam for the long-term, with exploration, maintenance and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 6, 2021 | News
Image: Shutterstock Researchers have developed a technique for extracting precious metals from hard rock ore without digging. Published in Science Advances, the research team included the CSIRO and the University of Western Australia (UWA), University of Exeter and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
At the beginning of the year TILEMANN GmbH, specialist manufacturer of Bucket Elevator Chains, Scraper Chains and Conveyor Chains, continued its trend of strong business, in particular with Scraper Chains. TILEMANN produced the chains for four SCHADE Semi-Portal...
by Gordon Barratt | May 5, 2021 | News
All new conveyor systems will inevitably succumb to the punishing bulk handling environment and begin the slow process of degradation. The system will eventually require more time and labor for maintenance, shorter spans between outages, longer periods of downtime...