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Sterling Group Ventures Receives Approvals to Start Phosphate Production In China
April 27, 2012
Sterling Group Ventures has signed an agreement with a mining contractor located in the area of the company’s Gaoping Phosphate project, Chenxi County, Hunan Province, to be operator of the mining and production activities on the project. To date, the hydro-electric…
Dassault Systèmes to Acquire Gemcom Software International, U.S.$360 Million
April 27, 2012
Dassault Systemes intends to acquire geological modeling and simulation company Gemcom Software International for approximately U.S.$360 million. Privately-held Gemcom is the world leader in mining industry software solutions and is headquartered in Vancouver. “With the acquisition of Gemcom, coupled with our…
Flexco Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Chile
April 25, 2012
Flexco has opened a new sales and manufacturing facility in Santiago, Chile in order to better service customers in Latin America. The two-floor, 31,000 sq. ft. facility features 5,000 sq. ft. of office space. A training center, which includes a classroom…
Kepware Technologies Strengthens Industrial Automation Commitment in Brazil Partnering with Exata
April 25, 2012
Kepware Technologies has named Exata Sistemas de Automação Ltda as Kepware’s Preferred Distributor partner throughout Brazil. The agreement underscores the company’s dedicated efforts in Latin America to empower a broad range of organizations across such industries as mining, agricultural product manufacturing,…
Northland Resources Signs Logistics Agreement with Green Cargo
April 25, 2012
Northland Resources’ subsidiary, Northland Logistics, has signed an agreement with Green Cargo covering the operation of the locomotives that will run from the Pitkäjärvi transloading terminal to the Port of Narvik. During the first quarter of 2013, Northland will start transporting…
Trevali Receives Key Environmental Impact Permit for Its Santander Mine in Peru
April 25, 2012
Trevali Mining has received Directorial Resolution from the General Bureau of Environmental Affairs of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru approving its Environmental Impact Study for the Operations Phase of the Santander Zinc-Lead-Silver Mine Project in west-central Peru. As…
Borneo Resource Investments Acquires Coal Concession in West Papua, Indonesia
April 24, 2012
Borneo Resource Investments has signed an agreement to acquire 80 percent of BT Berkat Bumi Waigeo. Waigeo holds a 9,601 hectare (approximately 23,700 acres) thermal coal mining concession in the West Papua Province, on the western peninsula of the island of…
Coal Ministry’s Change in Stance Stuns Bengal Aerotropolis Projects, India
April 23, 2012
Coal minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal’s objection to the project of Bengal Aerotropolis Projects (BAPL) in Andal has left the company in shock. A top official of the company expressed his dismay over the objection since the ministry of coal had already…
No Green Clearance to Jindal Mining Project in Chhattisgarh
April 23, 2012
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Friday cancelled environment clearance to the coal mining project of MP Naveen Jindal’s steel and power plant in Chhattisgarh on grounds of faulty public hearing. The judgment delivered by Justice C.V. Ramulu and R. Nagandran held…
United Tractors Considers Coal Deals in Kalimantan
April 23, 2012
United Tractors, the country’s largest heavy equipment distributor, is mulling over the acquisition of two new coal mines in Kalimantan this year to boost its coal mining revenue. The company is in the final stage of a due diligence to acquire…
