Mining Infrastructure News

RSS

Alpha Natural Resources To Reduce Coal Production From Kentucky Mines

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. plans to curtail coal mining operations in its northern and southern Kentucky business units as continued market pressures and new regulations on coal-fired power plants make production from certain mines in those areas uneconomic.

11 Jun 2012

AK Steel Receives "Metallic Supplier Of The Year" Award From Chrysler Group LLC

AK Steel has received the Metallic "Supplier of the Year" award from Chrysler Group LLC. The award recognizes AK Steel for extraordinary performance in 2011, and positions AK Steel among an elite group of Chrysler'...

11 Jun 2012

FEI Receives Bookings Worldwide from Oil + Gas Companies For Petrography Workflow and Analysis Solutions

FEI announced today that it has received multiple bookings for its “Core-to-Pore” petrography workflow and QEMSCAN® WellSite™ analysis solutions.

8 Jun 2012

United Silver Corp. Miners Break Through To Big Creek #4 Tunnel

United Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that on May 24, USC miners at the Crescent Mine Project broke through to the existing Big Creek #4 tunnel, a narrow, track tunnel dating back to the early 1920's. The miners had been driving the new trackless Big Creek #4 adit since late March and have advanced more than 700 feet in virgin ground. The breakthrough is a milestone in the plan of the Project to achieve commercial production by the second quarter of 2013.

8 Jun 2012

Pipeline Integrity: New Book Clarifies Controversial Topic

Energy pipeline sector controversies, including the Keystone XL Pipeline and Enbridge-Enterprise Products projects that will move heavy crude from Canadian tar sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, are in the news and on the minds of many in the energy industry, environmental groups and the public at large.

8 Jun 2012

Oil And Gas Sector Provide Growing Opportunity For Clean Water Technologies

Extractive industries in the oil and gas sector represent a growing market opportunity for companies with new water treatment technologies such as ThermoEnergy, CEO Cary Bullock said in reaction to a recent article in Environmental Finance magazine.

8 Jun 2012

GFS Chemicals Expands Rare Earth Manufacturing Facility: Completes Fully Domestic U.S. Supply Chain For Cerium Products

GFS Chemicals, Inc., a privately held specialty chemical manufacturer, today announced plans to expand its Columbus facility to manufacture Cerium intermediates to further back integrate its domestic production operations. Cerium has been in short supply due to China's restrictive policy on rare earth mineral exports.

8 Jun 2012