News Wrap: Final voting opens for Mining Magazine awards; San Rafael gets to work; Bloom Lake on its way back

Web version | Update preferences   Web version Update preferences SUBSCRIBE EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY News Wrap Mining Magazine Awards 2017: final voting The final round of voting is now open for the MM Awards Staff reporter | November 21, 2017 San Rafael gets to work With a goal of hitting commercial production levels before the end of the December quarter, Americas Silver has confirmed production start at its flagship San Rafael operation in Mexico Donna Schmidt | November 22, 2017 Bloom Lake on its way back Champion Iron, which has been working on the restart of the once-abandoned Bloom Lake iron ore operation in Canada, said it will have a payroll of 450 by the end of the year and is aiming to reopen the mine by March Staff reporter | November 22, 2017 SPONSORED MESSAGE Metso MD series mill discharge pumps - optimized solutions for maximum uptime Metso MD pumps are based on our extensive know-how and experience working with grinding mill circuits in a wide variety of mineral processing applications. 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Longyear diamond bit launched in Australia Boart Longyear has released the Longyear Green Bit, the first product in its line of Longyear diamond drilling bits, on the Australian market Staff reporter | November 22, 2017 Amulsar outfitted with Cat for development Gold developer Lydian, currently progressing with the construction of its wholly owned Amulsar gold project in south-central Armenia with a plan to bring it into production next year, has outfitted its development fleet with about US$65 million in Cat equipment Donna Schmidt | November 21, 2017 Total to supply Thiess lubricants International oil and gas company Total has been awarded a three-year lubricant contract with mining services provider Thiess, with an option to extend the contract for up to seven years Staff reporter | November 21, 2017 SPONSORED MESSAGE Powerful Analytical Performance with Niton XL5 XRF The lightest and smallest handheld XRF analyzer for elemental determination now delivers the biggest performance for geologists and mining operations. 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READ MORE Gamsberg getting Kwatani grizzly feeder South African vibrating screen supplier Kwatani has sent a heavy-duty grizzly feeder to a customer that is gearing up to exploit one of the world's largest known zinc ore bodies: the Gamsberg project in the country's Northern Cape province Staff reporter | November 21, 2017 Zambia pushing for local copper processing Zambia's Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma said in a recent delegation address that regulators are working on a policy to require the country's copper miners to engage importers to establish processing facilities in the country Staff reporter | November 21, 2017 GFS offers LNG conversion for Terex truck Fuel solutions group GFS has developed a mine haul truck conversion kit for the Terex Unit Rig 4400, allowing the machines to operate on a combination of liquid natural gas (LNG) and diesel fuel, or NG+D Donna Schmidt | November 20, 2017 Chelopech revitalised Donna Schmidt takes a look at the optimisation of the award-winning Bulgarian gold-copper-silver complex Five minutes with the iRIS project Artur Zakirov at the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden speaks to Carly Leonida about the iRIS fire safety project How to optimise your mine We have saved the most timely (some might say the best) topic for the last of our special issues this year view more Saint Jean mill to be commissioned Officials from Ontario-based Saint Jean Carbon have confirmed its mill, lab and anode material manufacturing facility are weeks away from being commissioned and could see sample runs by late November Donna Schmidt | November 20, 2017 Tango's Oena dancing again One month after announcing Bluedust 7 as its mining contractor, Canada-headquartered Tango Mining has recommenced production at its Oena diamond operation in Northern Cape, South Africa Donna Schmidt | November 20, 2017 Renewable energy potential of old mines Working in partnership with BHP, Rocky Mountain Institute's Sunshine for Mines team has uncovered an opportunity to turn closed mine sites, or legacy mines, into independent power plants, storage facilities or value-added grid-service providers Staff reporter | November 17, 2017 Appealing to the younger generation A shortage of skilled workers could still pose a significant risk to mining operations Ailbhe Goodbody | November 22, 2017 Playing with fire Consultancy GPR Dehler conducted a loose experiment on fire awareness with mining professionals at the Diggers and Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie, Australia, in August. Eddy Solbrandt reports on the worrying results Eddy Solbrandt | November 17, 2017 Protecting miners now and in the future Tim Turney examines the benefits of using personal monitoring solutions to measure workers' exposure to harmful dusts in the workplace Tim Turney | November 15, 2017 Conflict-free coal Drummond explains how it got involved in the Bettercoal Assessment Programme, and how it used its assessment results to improve its corporate policies Staff reporter | November 13, 2017 This email was sent to: fernandoqueens@gmail.com Mining Magazine newsletter uses an HTML-rich media format to provide a visually attractive layout To unsubscribe to this newsletter click here If you have forgotten your password, please click here unsubscribe Aspermont Media 4th Floor, Vintners Place, 68 Upper Thames Street, London, EC4V 3BJ Phone: +44 207 216 6053 Fax: +44 207 216 6050 www.aspermontmedia.com