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Meeting French quarry standards
Metso Minerals' new generation Barmac B7150 vertical shaft impact crusher is the solution that Belgium's largest aggregate producer, Gralex, is adopting in its sandstone operation in Lustin to meet the recently embraced French norm.
While the European Union is looking for a common aggregates standard for its members, Belgium's quarry operators have opted for the French, which happens to be more difficult to meet than the previous Belgian IF regulation. more...
InfoMine is pleased to announce the opening of our Peru office. The opening of this office supports our expansion into Latin American mining information as well as the development of our Spanish language sites Peru.InfoMine.com, Chile.InfoMine.com and Argentina.InfoMine.com.
The addition of an office located in Latin America greatly enhances our ability to collect information on the Latin American mining industry as well as serve the information needs of this region. We have already greatly expanded the coverage in the Careers, News and Supplier areas for Latin America and will expand our coverage of mining companies and properties in this area in the coming months.
Our Peru office is located in the capital, Lima. For more information on our Spanish Language sites and the Spanish content available on InfoMine, as well as advertising opportunities in these areas, please contact our Peru office representative Lola Rivera will be happy to assist.
InfoMine se complace en anunciar la apertura de su oficina en el Perú. La apertura de esta oficina nos sirve de apoyo a nuestra expansión de la información minera para América Latina así como también al desarrollo de nuestros sites en el idioma Español, Peru.InfoMine.com, Chile.InfoMine.com y Argentina.InfoMine.com.
La adición de una oficina ubicada en América Latina aumenta enormemente nuestra habilidad para recopilar información en la industria minera Latino Americana; así como también, proveer las necesidades de información de esta región. Ya hemos extendido ampliamente la cobertura en cuanto a las áreas de Empleos, Noticias y Proveedores para América Latina y desarrollaremos nuestra cobertura en el área de Compañías y Propiedades en los siguientes meses.
Nuestra oficina en Perú está ubicada en la capital, Lima. Para mayor información de nuestros sites en idioma Español y el contenido en Español disponible en InfoMine, así como también para anunciar oportunidades en estas áreas, favor contactar a nuestra representante en la oficina de Perú, Lola Rivera.
CareerMine welcomes our latest "Employer of Choice" - US Borax. Please look at their current openings and all our other Employers of Choice career opportunities. We work closely with our Employers of Choice to help them with their recruiting needs. To find out more about becoming an Employer of Choice please email Renee and she will be happy to assist.
South African and Australian gold stagnates while South American gold soars
The price of gold in the currencies of countries that mine the metal has varied considerably from prices commonly quoted in the press, mostly denominated in US dollars. Ultimately, it's the price of the metal in the domestic currency that's of importance to the gold miner. As such, the dollar exchange rate is a crucial aspect in determining the profitability of a mining company that sells its product internationally.
As the US dollar-denominated price of gold surges again to break a 16 year high, its interesting to note that the price of gold in Argentine pesos, Australian dollars, Brazilian reals, Canadian dollars, Chilean Pesos, Peruvian Sols and South African rands is vastly different. The worst performing gold price in this group of currencies was the price of gold in South African rand, which has increased by only ZAR1.59 in three years. The price of gold in Australian dollars hasn't performed much better, increasing only 7% or AUD38.50 an ounce over three years. By comparison, the price of gold in the currencies of South American Argentina (plus ARS1,024 or 372%), Brazil (plus BRL494 or 68%), Chile (plus CLP65,529 or 34%) and Peru (plus PEN473 or 48%) have performed much better.
The price of gold in Canadian dollars has also performed reasonably well, increasing nearly CAD90 or 20% in three years. InfoMine is proud to present the metal prices for gold, silver and copper in the currencies of the countries that commonly mine the metals, namely, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Peru and South Africa on its foreign language pages, namely Chile.InfoMine.com, Peru.InfoMine.com, Argentina.InfoMine.com and Brazil.InfoMine.com. Also, metal price charts for these and more countries are also available on InfoMine's Investment section . Simply, select a commodity, currency and period before clicking "Display Chart" to view the charts.
As a business person with lots of clients the last thing you want to be responsible for is the spread of a computer virus.Here is a tip to prevent your Microsoft Outlook from spreading email viruses.
Try this it's simple and very effective. In Microsoft Outlook, create a new contact. In the Name field, enter !0000 (or something similar). You want to use a name that guarantees that this record will always be listed first. This record should not have an email address.
When you get a virus that tries to spread itself, the virus will read the first record in your Outlook contact list. This record is the !0000 contact that you just created. Since the first record has an invalid email address, Outlook will generate the following error message when the virus tries to send itself:
The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address.
Click OK at the message box. Congratulations! You have stopped a virus from spreading to your friends and family in your contact list.
In a continuing effort to improve services for both our users and suppliers listed in our Featured Listing , InfoMine is developing a catalogue and product list search to help buyers find products and services with greater ease.
In anticipation of the first phase launch by the end of November, InfoMine staff has added over 4,500 catalogues from 600 suppliers, including over 12,000 individual products. In this first phase, all supplier listings with catalogues and product lists submitted to InfoMine, will be displayed as links on their listing page. Each catalogue will be further linked to the suppliers website for buyers to view or download.
Initially, links to catalogues will be accessible by all buyers. In the second phase, with an anticipated launch in early 2005, the ability to search by both catalogues and product lists will be added.
For buyers to be guided to your company for the products or services you provide, it is necessary to add your catalogue and product or service list into our Buyer's Guide database. Please visit ABB's Featured Listing for an example of how the catalogue and product list is presented for one of InfoMine's clients. In anticipation of the launch of these services in late November 2004, please forward any electronic catalogues and/or product lists (e.g. pdf, Word files, etc.) for your company, which InfoMine could add to your complimentary listing. Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to email Greg Fenrick for further information.
"UBC, CIM and EduMine Partner for Lifelong Learning in Mining"
Competitiveness and sustainability are making it necessary for companies in the mining industry to put increasing importance on finding a way for their personnel to stay current with new technology and best practices.
The concept of Lifelong Learning and the transformation of companies into Learning Organizations is finding increasing relevance and application in achieving this goal. The Certificate in Mining Studies Program from the University of British Columbia - Mining Engineering is a collaborative development. For more information click on this link.
New Design Course for Hardrock Underground Mines
The Underground Design courses have been written with the mine operator in mind. Wide experience and expertise in the design of mine openings has been compiled by the author into courses that enable users to engineer their work place based upon past experience and practice augmented by sound engineering principles. Design Parameters for Underground Metal Mines is the first of two Underground Design courses by the author.For more information click on this link.
A Truly Humorless Joke!
This is a true story.
An auditor was examining the balance sheet of a mining company that had just bought a sheep station in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. The reason for the purchase was partly for the thousands of acres that the station covered and partly for the thousands of sheep that ranged over those thousands of acres.
The auditor, being very diligent, noted that the value of the sheep formed a significant asset and, like all good auditors, knew that he would have to verify that asset. He chartered an aircraft and flew up to the station. The manager was at the airstrip to meet him.
"Hello," he said. "I'm the auditor. I've come to count the sheep."
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Here's a sample of the information on "Pyrite" available on InfoMine. This is just an example of how our search provides excellent and pertinent results for any topic you wish to explore. Why not try your own favorite topic now? |
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 Any job working below the earth's surface is potentially hazardous and tin mining in the southwest of England was no different. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was commonplace for children to be employed at the tin mines. In 1839, 7,000 children were employed in Cornish tin mines. Until the age of 12, young boys worked largely above ground, breaking up rock as it was brought to the surface. Women, known in the trade as 'Bal Maidens', were also employed to perform similar duties. Using small hammers, the women and children would break the ore down to manageable sizes before loading into trolleys and pushing it to the ore-crushing machine.
For the men who went down into the deep mines, conditions were, hot, oppressive and very dangerous. Miners were responsible for buying their own tools, candles, and dynamite; An added strain on an already meager wage. There were no cages to haul miners up and down the shaft in the early days. Instead mines were reached by ladders - sometimes stretching down for 100 feet. Not surprisingly, falls were commonplace. Once at the rock face, conditions were almost unbearable, temperatures reached to 60 degrees Celsius. At South Crofty Mine in the 1890s men were issued with six candles every day. Air was in the mine was polluted by dust and fumes from detonated explosives and could barely sustain a candle. In fact, some miners would chose to snub their candles out and work in complete darkness in order to conserve air.
Mike Miucci was a miner after the Second World War, and remembers the dangers all too well. "It's terrifying because everything's dark...you had to look after yourself, because in the level it's got holes every twenty feet with boards on top." "You had to be careful where you stepped - it was 100 feet deep." He also remembers that some men died very young as a result of the conditions. Mike says that he can recall "the dust in your lungs. And the pressure, the depth and the pressure when you blast, your ears when you drill." "You lose your ears quick because of the awful noise. We never had any earmuffs in them days."
Despite safety improvements, conditions remained dangerous below ground. The early ladders were replaced by gigs which transported men down to the subterranean world. These continued to be used until the 1930s but were still subject to accidents. The Levant Mine Disaster of 1919 was one of the worst tragedies with huge loss of life caused by the collapse of the main engine and the miners' cage. Maureen Jolly's father survived the disaster and she remembers his horrendous injuries: "He had about eight or nine crushed ribs, 38 stitches in his face, he lost all his teeth and he lost his hearing." "One ear was very deaf, he couldn't hear anything ... and it was about twelve months before he could even go to work again," recalls Maureen.
Explosions were another hazard despite new safety measures introduced in the 20th century. The earliest fuses had been quills or lengths of straw, and were very dangerous. Safety fuses were invented around 1830 and helped to minimise the risk of unwanted explosions. The new fuses saved many lives, but misfires could still be deadly.
 Tin miners were prone to many different diseases as a result of working in hot, damp and dusty conditions underground. Bronchitis, silicosis, TB and rheumatism were all common complaints for miners, making life expectancy short. Few miners in the early days were fit to work beyond the age of 40. Even in the late 20th century many tin miners died from silicosis caused by rock drilling. Particles of mica dust punctured the miners' lungs - it was a terrible, wasting illness. Anne Elsworth's father died of silicosis. "When my dad died he had enough lung to cover a threepenny bit," she recalls.
Rock falls, flooding and arsenic present in tin and copper mines were other hazards faced by miners on a daily basis. Fatalities were a frequent and unsurprising occurrence. Arsenic workers had little or no protective clothing, wearing only handkerchiefs and loose cloth wrapped around their faces. Miners were prepared to risk life and limb because the pay was reasonably good down the tin mines. Former miner Bob from Wheal Jane Mine recalls his days down the mines: "Wheal Jane was good pay ... they would pay you for the first fortnight, what they call 'honors time', that's the ordinary wage." "Then the end of the month miners would have all their footage. Then they would get the big pay day."
All miners, including the women and children on the surface would work a ten-hour day, six days a week in the 19th century. Although many miners and their families lived in cottages rented from the mining company, many would still have to walk several miles to and from work, in clothes wet with sweat from hours of underground toil. Life for a miner was a far cry from the romantic view portrayed in so many of today's tourist brochures and the success of Cornwall's tin mining industry often overshadows the human cost. Even in the 20th century Cornish tin miners worked long, hard hours, although the pay wasn't bad. In the early 1980s a tin miner could earn £800 per week if he worked all hours. But the boom years were over, and by the 1990s Cornish tin mining was no more. South Crofty was the last mine to close in 1998 - it was the end of an era.
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