Next week, Las Vegas hosts one of the world's largest mining exhibitions - MINExpo 2008 - and MINING.com Magazine has prepared a special issue covering this event.
Discover the newest products, the latest technologies and timely seminars you will find at MINExpo 2008.
We also explore the challenges of transporting people and materials to and from remote mine sites with special reference to the construction of ice roads.
We look at the status of the mining industry in Africa and two of its most controversial commodities: diamonds and uranium.
The January 2009 issue of MINING.com Magazine is already in preparation. The deadline for reserving ad space is November 15, 2008. If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration please ensure we receive it by November 3.
InfoMine has a new coal portal where you can research coal
companies
and properties,
look for careers,
read up on the latest coal news.


- The Ultimate Mining Search Engine on the Web
We are pleased to announce the launch of SEARCHMINING.com, a simple yet comprehensive worldwide search engine available for mining - exclusive to InfoMine and powered by the Google Search!
Search over 15,000 mine suppliers; 5,000 companies; 18,000 properties; 25,000 mining jobs and daily mining industry news.
Try SEARCHMINING.com now.
InfoMine Launches VideoMineHD
Just in time for MINExpo, InfoMine is pleased to launch VideoMineHD, a service providing high-definition video coverage of worldwide mining activity. Our new VideoMineHD team will be at MINExpo next week to film new equipment, services, companies and suppliers.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new poster map - "Major Producing Mines in the Americas". The map features hundreds of significant base metal, precious metal, diamond, gemstone, uranium, coal and oil sands producers in North, Central and South America.
Printed poster maps distributed with the September edition of MINING.com magazine can be ordered here (folded) and ordered here (unfolded).
NewsMine is being enhanced to provide additional services. These enhancements include aggregation, sorting and keyword searching of a comprehensive suite of major news outlets ranging from majors like Reuters, Canadian Press and Bloomberg to industry magazines and websites such as Mineweb and SteelGuru.
Our complimentary news services are also being integrated into the MINING.com website.
Crude oil, coal, steel, ruthenium, iridium and London Metal Exchange warehouse stock levels have been added to our Free Commodity Charts page increasing the number of available charts to 30.
Metal prices continue to be updated daily to provide you with dynamic up-to-date information with the unique ability to change unit measurements (currency, weight and time).
Charts are easy to add to your own website - see charts.infomine.com for details.
The InfoMine eStore provides an extensive suite of mining and geoscience publications for sale. These include books and papers on a variety of topics including mining engineering, metallurgy, risk management, geostatistics, cyanide management and water treatment.
InfoMine has added
Ukraine as a new country page. Here you can find information on
news, jobs, mining companies, mineral properties, publications and Ukraine-specific links.
This course, by Robert Laboucane, will enable participants to assist their organizations in building trusting, respectful relationships with Aboriginal people, their leadership and their communities as well as learning consultation protocols. An associated classroom course is also offered. (see below)
This month sees the start of the classroom course season after the relative quiet summer period. We have five courses in October and another five in November. Click here for complete details.