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July/August 2013 | Volume 10 | Issue 4 | Industry Technical Information | 矿业技术信息

Focus on the Philippines • 聚焦菲律宾

Australian Suppliers Directory • 澳大利亚供应商名录

AIMEX preview • AIMEX概述

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FEATURESMining success stories The July/August mining success story examines how PT Adaro Energy Tbk hasbecome one of Indonesia’s biggest companies and a global coal industry player, stemming from thestrength of the country’s biggest coal operation. ....................................................................................4

Australian mining suppliers directory The Australian Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS)sector contributes 6.4% to the Australian economy and is one of the country’s largest export sectors. This feature looks at the METS sector and includes a directory. ..................................................................47

AIMEX 2013 preview The Asia Pacific’s premier mining exhibition AIMEX returns to Sydney in August with a focus on innovation to help delegates make efficiency savings and lift productivity in the face of soften-ing global resources prices. .................................................................................................................65

LEADING DEVELOPMENTSAsian Intelligence The first half of 2013 has been extremely challenging for mining with the combinationof rising operating costs, falling metals prices, lower ore grades and continued scarcity in availability of funds. ....................................................................................................................................................8

Philippines Indophil Resources is in discussions with newly formed Glencore-Xstrata regarding restructuringand advancing the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project JV. ........................................................................13

Exploration Flinders Mines will undertake a new drilling program targeting Brockman Iron Deposit mineralization at its Pilbara Iron Ore Project in Western Australia. ..........................................................................................120

AROUND THE REGIONPhilippines St Augustine Gold & Copper will use US$11 million raised in a placement to further advancethe King-king Copper-Gold Project. .....................................................................................................15

Philippines The mill expansion project at Medusa Mining’s Co-O Gold Project is on schedule. ...................17

China New Pacific Metals has started exploration at its new RZY Silver, Lead and Zinc project. .................24

Mongolia There has been a 675% increase in resources at Haranga’s Selenge Iron Ore Project. .........28

Indonesia High-grade assays point to a new mineralized zone at the Tembang Gold-Silver Project. ..........33

Indonesia Indo Mines will focus on accelerating pig iron production at the Jogjakarta Iron Project. ...........35

Papua New Guinea Gold Anomaly will drive an exploration adit and cross-cuts at its Nevera prospect. ....36

India Astra Resources is close to acquiring to iron ore mines in the eastern state of Orissa. ......................38

Vietnam Besra Gold has started mining higher grade ore at Phuoc Son’s Bai Go underground mine. ........39

Australia Atlas Iron has confirmed a significant direct shipping ore discovery at Corunna Downs project. .....40

Central Asia Kentor Gold has sold the Andash project in the Kyrgyz Republic to Robust Resources. .........42

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Advertisers’ Index ....................................118

Calendar of Events ....................................43

Exploration ..............................................120

From the Editor ............................................2

On the move ..............................................44

Product News ..........................................110

Supplier News ..........................................114

Subscription Form ....................................118

It’s all systems go at the Didipio Gold-Copper Proj-ect of OceanaGold in northern Luzon. The operationwas officially opened on May 15 with the companysubsequently determining that the effective date ofcommercial production was April 1. The first ship-ment of concentrate from Didipio departed from SanFernando port in early April bound for Japan withthe first cash receipt made in mid-April. OceanaGoldhas, therefore, completed the transition into a multi-national gold producer.

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THERE are mixed messages coming from the Philippines, all of which im-pact the mining industry and mining investment – positively or negatively.In these difficult global times for mining, it is important that the AquinoGovernment achieves a sustainable balance so that mining proceeds, in-vestment increases, Filipino people benefit and the environment is notcompromised. Easier said than done, but the government has to dateshown a commitment to work towards this balance, which stands it ingood stead in the quest to effectively manage all competing interests.

Let’s start with the positives. Firstly, the Philippines had the fastest grow-ing economy among Asian countries for the first quarter of 2013. The Na-

tional Statistical Coordination Board stated that the country’s GDP grew 7.8% in the quarter, fasterthan China (7.7%), Indonesia (6%), Thailand (5.3%) and Vietnam (4.9%).

The Philippines has bucked a regional trend of slowing growth amid recession in Europe anda slow recovery in the US. The industry sector, comprising, manufacturing and construction,grew 10.9%, higher than the 5.3% and 8.9% recorded in the first and last quarter of 2012, how-ever the mining and quarrying industry contracted by 17% in the quarter.

This needs to be addressed by the government because the archipelago is rich in copper,gold, silver and chromium, and produces more than 10% of the world’s nickel, but mineralsmake up only 8% of its exports. It is important that mining play a bigger role to ensure continu-ing GDP growth and projects like Tampakan, should it proceed, could transform the industry asit contains massive copper and gold resources.

Another positive is that the Philippines has been upgraded to investment grade by Standardand Poors from BBB- to BB+ and this is expected to cheapen financing of mining developmentprojects. Red Mountain Mining’s managing director Jon Dugdale says, “We view the upgrade toinvestment grade, coupled with the intention of the government to fast track mining permit ap-provals under the Executive Order 79 policy, as very positive developments.”

Like many mining companies and industry representative groups, the Chamber of Mines of thePhilippines has welcomed the move to lift the moratorium on accepting applications for Explo-ration Permits and Financial or Technical Assistance Agreements. It states, “It is indicative thatgovernment has laid the groundwork required under Executive Order 79 to promote the rationalexploration, development, and utilization of the country’s mineral resources.” Ending the mora-torium, it says, “also shows that government is responding to the mining industry’s call for astable policy and investment environment needed by investors.”

Flying in the face of this, come plans to pursue legislation that will impose higher taxes onmining players. The high prices of mineral commodities in recent years have made policy mak-ers think available revenues can be captured from the industry. A Technical Working Group onEconomic Concerns has been floating several options on getting a certain percentage tax ongross revenues and a certain tax on net revenues to ensure government gets a higher revenuestream and an equitable share of proceeds from minerals. These intentions may sound fair butthe government must ensure there is balance and must also remember that these are uncertaineconomic times for mining, which means there should be incentives for explorers, miners andinvestors, not disincentives.

Evidence of the impact such moves have on investment can be seen from last year’s decreeestablished a Mining Industry Coordinating Council to oversee the sector and the banning of min-ing from 78 areas considered sensitive ecosystems, crucial to farming or tourism or unsuitablefor other reasons. After the decree and in anticipation of the new law, foreign investment in re-sources plummeted. Never that high to begin with, the Philippines now attracts less than $500million worth of annual mining investment. The preliminary 2012 figure was down from nearly $1billion in 2010 and $625 million in 2011. Another negative is the continuing threat posed by thedestructive activities of anti-mining groups and rebels, and the government needs to step in toprotect valuable mining investments as this is a major deterrent to potential investors.

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Mining Success Stories


IN less than 10 years since establishment and less than five yearssince completing its IPO, PT Adaro Energy Tbk has become one ofIndonesia’s most successful companies and one of the world’s lead-ing coal industry players. It continues to develop infrastructure andimprove its position in the coal industry, and has further integrated itscoal supply chain by moving downstream into power as well as di-versifying product offerings and increasing its reserve base throughacquisition of deposits in Indonesia.

Adaro Energy was established in 2004 under the name of PTPadang Karunia and has become the second largest thermal coalproducer in Indonesia. Through its subsidiaries, the vertically inte-grated, pit-to-power company has a JORC-compliant coal resourceand reserve of 4.6 billion tonnes and 1.1 billion tonnes, respectively.Its vision is to be a leading Indonesian mining and energy group whilecontinuing to focus on creating maximum sustainable value from In-donesian coal.

On July 16, 2008, Adaro conducted an IPO and listed on the In-donesia Stock Exchange. It issued 11.14 billion new shares, which

was equal to 34.83% of its issued and fully paid capital. With the IPOprice of Rp1100 per share (nominal share value of Rp100 per share),Adaro raised Rp12.25 trillion from the public in an IPO considered thelargest in the history of the Indonesian capital market.

Adaro Energy aims to achieve organic growth from the current re-serve base, improving the efficiency of its coal supply chain, productsand locations, and through deepening integration, while it achievesinorganic growth through acquisitions of other deposits.

Major recent project developments include:• Overburden Out of Pit Crushing and Conveying System (OPCC) -

The project was 96% complete at the end of December 2012 andAdaro estimated the system would be commissioned during May2013.

• 2x30MW Mine-mouth Power Plant - The plant was 95% completeat the end of December 2012 and Adaro estimated commission-ing of the first unit to start in January and the second unit by April2013.

• Capacity expansion at the Kelanis River Terminal.

Kalimantan operationsAdaro Energy’s primary focus is on the Adaro project in South Kali-mantan through subsidiary PT Adaro Indonesia. The deposits are inthree main areas - Tutupan, Wara and Paringin. Tutupan stretches for20km along a ridge in the northeast part of the Adaro area. No majorfaults are known to disrupt the coal.

The Wara 1 coal deposit is 5km west of Tutupan Central and is sep-arated from that deposit by the Dahai thrust. The deposit stretches in anortheast direction over 12km and dips to the southeast at 45 degrees.Wara 1 comprises three major seams which are characteristically low inash (less than 3%) but with moisture content of around 40%.

North Paringin deposit is southeast of Tutupan and around 1kmnorth of the old Paringin pit. The deposit forms an asymmetrical an-ticline of 4km strike length with the eastern limb dipping at 30 de-grees and the western limb at 60. It is also a multi-seam deposit

Adaro plays major role in Indonesian growth

Mining at Adaro Energy’s massive coal operations in South Kalimantan.

Loading haul trucks at the Adaro project in South Kalimantan.

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consisting of more than 40 seams ranging in thickness from less than5 metres to greater than 20. The quality of North Paringin is similar toTutupan with ash around 3% and CV gar of around 4800 kcal. TheParingin deposit extends south of the Balangan River.

Since it started in production in 1991, Adaro has used open pit min-ing methods to produce coal with primary waste stripping and coalmining performed by hydraulic excavators and dump trucks. Underthe Coal Contracts of Work (CCoW) the life of mine is due to expire in2022 with an option of two extensions of 10 years.

South Sumatra developmentsAdaro Energy’s investments in PT Mustika Indah Permai (MIP), PTBukit Enim Energi (BEE) and PT Servo Meda Sejahtera (SMS) are partof its strategy in South Sumatra to replicate the proven success of itsbusiness model in South Kalimantan to create long-term, sustainablevalue from Indonesian coal.

During the last quarter of 2012 MIP continued pre-stripping activitiesat the mine site with stockpile and water control facilities also built. Atthe end of 2012 more than 1 million bank cubic metres of material hadbeen removed exposing up to 125,000 tonnes of coal. Land purchas-ing progressed and coal crushing started to build stockpile bases. Thecompany continued to build orders for the sale of Ultima, the brandname of MIP’s low pollutant, low heat value coal, to end users in In-donesia, China, India, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.MIP is 75%-owned by Adaro through PT Alam Tri Abadi (ATA).

During quarter 4 of 2012, development alternatives for BEE werestudied with the aim of producing a work program and budget for ap-proval by shareholders. Exploration has included surface geological andaerial topographic mapping, sampling and 13,100 metres of exploration

drilling. An additional exploration drilling program is being carried out inthe BEE mining area this year to provide supplementary data for prepa-ration of a JORC report on the area’s reserves and resources.

Base line environment and social programs have started. From ex-ploration results to date, BEE is considered compatible with Adaro’sother investments in electricity generation and is being promoted asa long-term, high volume fuel supply for a dedicated mine-mouthbase-load power plant. BEE is 61.04%-owned by Adaro Energythrough ATA, 20% by PT Pamapersada Nusantara, 13.92% by PTTriputra Utama Selaras and 5.04% by PT Bumi Alam Sejahtera.

SMS completed all earthworks and surfacing of the road during thefinal quarter of 2012 while some permanent bridges are expected tobe completed in 2013. On November 20 the haul road was officiallycommissioned by the South Sumatra Governor. Phase 1 of the MuaraLematang stockpiling and barge loading facility was also completedand 10 barges and 70,000 tonnes were loaded prior to the end ofthe year. The facility will be expanded to an annual capacity of 30 mil-



Side-tippers unload coal at an Adaro storage point in the South Kalimantan supply chain.

Adaro Energy has an integrated coal supply chain from pit to port.




lion tonnes over the next few years with future upgrades planned andtimed in accordance with market demand. SMS is 35%-owned byAdaro Energy through ATA.

Other developmentsIndoMet Coal, a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Adaro Energy,is continuing the development of seven CCoWs in Kalimantan. IndoMetCoal continues to assess development options across all sevenCCoWs and is constructing access roads and developing port facilities.

In quarter 4 of 2012, PT Bhakti Energi Persada (BEP) continued towork towards getting the required government permits, acquiringland, securing social and community support, and completing engi-neering and geological studies. These programs are required to befinished before significant capital expenditures are made. The currentdevelopment plan is to bring the BEP concessions to production in2014. Adaro has full control of the management, operations and fund-ing of BEP from the date of signing on May 28, 2012.

Electric Power Development Co Ltd (J-Power), Itochu Corporationand PT Adaro Power established PT Bhimasena Power Indonesia(BPI) in July 2011. On October 6, 2011, BPI and state-owned elec-tricity company PLN signed a 25-year power purchase agreement,which includes construction of a 2000MW coal-fired power plant inCentral Java. BPI expected to achieve financial closure by the end of2012 but due to not uncommon challenges related to land acquisi-tions, the Central Java Power Plant Project will be delayed. It is not ex-pected to be a lengthy delay nor will it harm the project or sponsors.

Adaro says the challenges are not insurmountable and it will deliverthis key project as soon as possible, to bring significant benefit to allstakeholders and to help build the nation. Most parties agree In-donesia cannot achieve its potential without increasing the country’spower generation capacity and Adaro intends to help Indonesiaachieve its full potential.

Competitive advantagesAdaro Energy and its subsidiaries have numerous competitive ad-vantages:

• Unlike most conglomerate business, Adaro is controlled by fivefamilies which collectively hold 63%. Adaro believes the naturalchecks and balances that exist in this ownership structure ensureall decisions are made in the best interest of the company andlong-term value creation.

• Low cost producer - The location and characteristics of the majordeposit, as well as the operating strategy and execution create thecapacity to produce coal at low cost level.

• Large operation - Adaro Energy and subsidiaries is the secondlargest coal producer in Indonesia, own and operate the largestcoal mine in Indonesia, has the largest single location open pit minein the southern hemisphere and the fourth largest in the world.

• Unique coal - Adaro Energy’s environmentally friendly coal is trade-marked around the world as Envirocoal. Growing concern for theenvironment, as well as understanding of Envirocoal’s other ben-efits, such as lower operating costs, will ensure demand for Envi-rocoal remains firm.

• Highly skilled work force with many years’ experience - A large andvaried work force and management, made up of people withdecades of experience from Indonesia and around the world. Manyconsider Adaro responsible for establishing the international mar-ket for subbituminous environmental coal.

• Diversified loyal blue chip customer base - Adaro and its sub-sidiaries sell Envirocoal to a geographically diverse customer baseof 41 companies in 17 different countries. Most have been cus-tomers for years and substantially all are power companies.

• Not restricted by infrastructure – Adaro’s existing infrastructuregives the company the capacity to increase production rapidly withminimal capital expenditure and to quickly adjust production vol-ume based on market demand and conditions.

• A collection of integrated profit centres – Adaro Energy’s forwardthinking plan enables each subsidiary, while fully integrated into theAdaro coal supply chain, to become an independent profit centre.Profit from subsidiaries assists the group’s overall income growth.Each subsidiary may become publicly listed.

• Experienced subsidiaries - Adaro Energy’s strategic business units

Adaro Energy’s South Kalimantan operations include barging to a deep water transfer station.


are experienced in the sectors of mining, trading, mining contrac-tor service, and infrastructure and logistics.

• High quality assets - As well as the 3.5 billion tonnes of coal re-serves and resources, Adaro has a complete production fleet inthe form of equipment and facilities for crushing, stockpiling, trans-portation, loading, production and other supporting roles.

Consistent growthThere are several factors that have contributed to Adaro Energy’s con-sistent growth:• Demand for its coal is increasing every year.• Coal mining contractors perform well in terms of meeting annual

targets.• The company has sufficient equipment and CAPEX to support pro-

duction growth need.• Adaro has good mine planning.

However, in the current difficult market conditions, Adaro has rec-ognized the need to get back to basics and does this by continuingto focus on the core business and operational excellence, by reduc-ing costs and improving efficiency. In addition, Adaro is carefully mon-itoring spending to preserve cash and maintain margins.

Despite the recent economic downturn, the company remains on-track to deliver its long-term strategies to grow and create maximumsustainable value from Indonesian coal by building a better and moreefficient business. It aims to achieve a medium-term annual target of80 million tonnes, at continuous improvement in coal supply chain,and to move further downstream into power. Adaro continues to be-lieve in the long-term resiliency of its business model, the overall coalindustry, and an emerging ASEAN economy.

Environmental initiativesMany people perceive that coal mining activities disturb the landscapeand environment, but Adaro says this is not entirely true because byimplementing good mining practices it can maintain and manage theenvironment without damaging it. In one initiative to maintain Co2,Adaro conducted energy efficiency in its operational activity to reduce

solar fuel consumption. It is also developing alternative energy througha biodiesel-fuel pilot plant in collaboration with Komatsu and UnitedTractors. The B-20 program aims to substitute 20% of fuel with jat-ropha oil which it plans to apply in 100 dump trucks when it can bemass produced. The program is expected to reduce annual emis-sions by 20,000 tonnes.

The company’s environmental performance is strictly regulated andcontrolled by the use of an environmental management system alignedwith ISO 14001 standards. Since the beginning of operations, AdaroEnergy has been strongly committed to implement its mining principlesto internationally recognized standards. In recent years it has receiveda Gold rating in the PROPER Award after four consecutive years ofgaining a Green rating from the Ministry of Environment. The awardshave shown that Adaro has complied with all regulatory requirementsand even gone beyond compliance by implementing environment ini-tiatives and sustainable community development programs.

Safety is vitalAdaro Energy has more than 22,000 employees and boasts manytalented recruits from reputable universities, inside and outside In-donesia. It hires more than 70% of its employees from the local com-munity in South Kalimantan.

Adaro is committed to maximizing workplace safety in all opera-tional aspects. It continues to implement an integrated safety, envi-ronmental and production management system known as AdaroSafety, Environment and Production (A-SEP) and which is aligned tothe ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18000 international standards. To im-prove employee awareness of safety, health and environmental is-sues, as well as to create a safe working environment culture, Adarohas employed a group general manager of SHE to create policieswhich will be implemented by all levels within the company’s businessunits and operating subsidiaries.

Some important components of the safety culture are:• Top management commitment to worker safety.• Consistently work on adapting international standards.• Punishment for breaking safety rules.



Reclamation work at Paringin coal mine which is part of the Adaro project in Kalimantan.


Asian Intelligence

THE first half of 2013 has been extremely chal-lenging for the international mining industry,with the problematic combination of risingoperating costs, falling metals prices, lower oregrades and a continued scarcity in the availa-bility of funds. After a decline that started atthe end of 2010, the second half of 2012 sawa gradual recovery in the mining industry’soverall market capitalization. This improvementwas helped by a strengthening gold price butprecious metals, and the industry’s valuation,have gone into reverse this year.

As indicated in the latest State of the Mar-ket report from IntierraRMG, the price of mostmetals fell considerably during the last twomonths of the first quarter and this has had aparticularly damaging effect on the valuationsof the smaller companies. After what was arelatively optimistic last three months of 2012,this year looks like being especially difficult forraising exploration finance.

Hitherto, initial public offerings (IPOs) haveplayed an important role in generating cashfor mining projects. However, market confi-dence has been dented against a backdropof volatile markets, political turbulence andfragile economic news. As a result, there hasbeen little IPO activity in the past quarter forthe Toronto or London stock exchanges.Neither retail nor professional investors havethe capacity, or appetite, to fund equity rai-sings, and so equity markets remain constrai-ned. With their share prices so low, most

explorers can’t realistically raise the neces-sary funds to bring themselves to the stagewhere they can generate cash flow from me-tals production.

According to the IntierraRMG database ofalmost 3500 listed companies, funds raised bythe mining sector in the quarter to March 31dropped to under US$5.2 billion from almostUS$6.8 billion in the last three months of 2012.Moreover, there has been a particularly sharpfall in funds raised by exploration companies -dropping to only US$1.5 billion in the firstquarter from US$3.4 billion in the Decemberquarter. Mining companies raised only US$0.2billion during the quarter on the London StockExchange, which represents a slump of al-most 80% from the previous quarter.

The Toronto Stock Exchange and Austra-lian Stock Exchange also saw sharp falls. Al-most 80% of funds raised during the quarterwere by companies with individual market ca-pitalizations of over US$100 million. Intierra-Live data showed that there was also animprovement in the amount raised by the in-dustry’s smallest companies (those valued atunder US$10 million), following an especiallysparse December quarter, but the amountsraised are still well below the funds securedin the year-ago quarter. This is particularlyworrying because companies have typicallyraised most of the necessary funds for pro-ject development during the first quarter ofthe year. IntierraRMG’s global data suggests

that the industry is in for a bleak year.

Gold exploration down 55%Slumping metals prices and falling equity va-luations, reflect serious uncertainty about theworld economy. The first quarter ended withthe Governor of the Bank of Japan announ-cing a huge monetary stimulus, Europe bai-ling out the banking system in Cyprus,disappointing employment figures in the USAand worrying signs of a slowdown in the cru-cial Chinese economy. This depressing sce-nario has had a knock-on effect over theminerals exploration sector.

Exploration activity has been trendingdown since the end of October 2011, andaccording to the State of the Market report,there were drilling reports from only 355 pro-spects in March. Gold exploration has beenparticularly weak, with activity reported fromjust 172 prospects in March, compared with382 in March 2012.

The figures for the next few months are un-likely to be better following the precious-me-tals price collapse in mid-April and asignificant drop in recent exploration funding.If the exploration sector is looking for somecomfort, it might come in the knowledge thatthe past six months of falling metals pricescomes off historically high levels.

The price of gold, for example, had risenseven-fold since 2001 to an all-time high in2011 of more than US$1900/ounce. Indeed,the last time the UK saw gold at more than£1000/ounce, in real terms, was in 1489when the Royal Mint issued sovereign coinsvaluing an ounce of gold at £2.

As indicated in the IntierraRMG report ho-wever, gold is still priced at well above thecash extraction cost of a large part of theworld’s production. Even at the recent two-year low, fewer than 9% of the 235 goldmines monitored in the Raw Materials Groupdatabase (RMG) had average cash operatingcosts higher than the metal’s price.

Of the gold mines in RMGs cash-cost mo-dule, 215 operations had average costs underUS$1350/ounce in 2012 operating costs.These mines produced a combined 1268 ton-nes (40.8 million ounces) last year at a weightedaverage operating cost of just US$693/ounce.These operations produced 97% of the goldoutput from the monitored mines.


Mining sector fundraising down

This graph from IntierraRMG shows market capitalization back to the levels of 2009.

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CHINA Beijing International Mining Exchange(CBMX), the only iron ore spot trading platformin China, has signed an MoU with the Singa-pore Exchange (SGX) to boost their coopera-tion in developing iron ore markets. This will seethe exchanges jointly explore areas of coope-ration including product development, marketdevelopment and information sharing. They willalso explore a medium-term road-map towardsimprovement of interaction and risk-transferbetween the spot and derivatives markets.

Both exchanges say it is an important first inthe global iron ore market, as the agreementbrings together an international derivativesclearing platform and a spot trading platform.CBMX president Dong Chaobin says the ex-change is hoping to promote the use of boththe spot and derivatives platforms as tradingand risk management tools. “This will help ironore market participants to achieve effectiveand efficient interaction between the spot andfinancial derivatives markets.”

Since the opening of CBMX on May 8,2012, more than 13 million tonnes of iron orehave been traded. The trading pattern of theplatform and the base price it generates, aregradually gaining market influence.

SGX AsiaClear is the pioneer commoditiesover-the-counter clearing service in Asia andenjoys more than 90% global market share inthe clearing of iron ore swaps.

The physical iron ore seaborne market in Asiahas been growing fast in the last few years,driven partly by China’s demand for steel pro-

duction amid continued industrial develop-ment. The derivatives market has developedalongside as the complementary risk-manage-ment and hedging tool against price volatility.SGX cleared a record 109 million tonnes of ironore swaps in 2012, representing a growth ofalmost 2.5 times over the previous year.


Iron ore platform deal between exchanges

AUSTRALIA must re-think how it manages itsnatural resources to deliver long-term benefitin the decades to come due to increasing un-certainty in the minerals and mining sector,according to a report by a group of Australia’sleading research organizations. The reportstates that a national minerals strategy woulddeliver a coherent and responsible approachto ensure that mineral resources are used wi-sely to advantage Australia and complementwork undertaken for recent white papers onEnergy and the Asian Century.

The findings of the report titled ‘AdvantageAustralia: resource governance and innovationfor the Asian Century’, released as one of a se-ries of reports, are the result of a three-year col-laboration between The University ofQueensland, UTS, CSIRO, Curtin University, CQUniversity and the Australian National University.

UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures researchdirector Dr Damien Guirco says the current stateof play in Australia is inadequate. “The minerals

industry has always operated in an evolving glo-bal landscape, but it’s becoming clear that socialand environmental factors will become more im-portant to head off future vulnerability.

“A national strategy would remove the com-plexities of differing regulations across statesand territories and shift the focus towards ma-ximizing long-term social, economic and envi-ronmental benefits for communities, regionsand the nation,” he says.

CSIRO’s mineral futures research leaderAnna Littleboy says that the industry is wor-king in an increasingly difficult environment.“In many ways our economy has benefittedfrom recent high commodity prices, but theglobal competitiveness of Australia’s mineralsindustry is under pressure because of decli-ning ore grades, declining productivity and li-mited ability to access labour and capital.

“New practices such as automation arebeing introduced and we need to understandboth short and long term impacts. Likewise,

as pressure mounts on precious environmen-tal resources such as water and land, long-term sustainable practices are become evermore important. These are issues facing thenation; they are not isolated to particularstates or mining operations,” she says.

The report recommends the industry imple-ment ethical and responsible supply chains;collect and provide data on economic, socialand environmental impacts; respond to envi-ronmental and social pressure with transfor-mational technologies such as renewableenergy; grow Australia’s high value skills toimprove workforce stability; facilitate invest-ment and regulatory reform; and measure theindustry’s performance on a national scale.

University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Re-sponsibility in Mining director Professor David Bre-reton is proud of the research conducted by theMineral Futures Cluster. “These constructive fin-dings are a leading example of what can be achie-ved through the power of collaborative work.”

National strategy key for Australian mining

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China Beijing International Mining Exchange and Singapore Exchange have signed an iron ore platform deal.


Asian Intelligence

A REPORT by US-based Revenue Watch Institute which lists My-anmar as the least transparent and accountable Asia-Pacific coun-try in managing its oil, gas and mining industries has beendenounced by Myanmar’s Government. Mines Minister Myint Aungsays the institute’s data is out of date and inaccurate, Myanmar isbeing judged on the record of the past, and the government isworking hard to draft new laws.

The Resource Governance Index states that a good deal of se-crecy is still prevalent in how natural resources are managed inAsia-Pacific countries. The index measures transparency and ac-countability in the oil, gas and mining industries in 58 countriesworldwide, including 12 in Asia-Pacific.

While none of the dozen made it into the top ‘Satisfactory’ seg-ment, India, Timor-Leste and Indonesia were top three in the ‘Par-tial’ segment while the Philippines and Mongolia were a littlefurther back but showing progress toward a well-governed andaccountable resource sector.

The rest were ranked as either ‘Weak’ or – in the case of Afghani-stan, Cambodia and Myanmar – ‘Failing’. In these nations opacity,corruption and weak processes keep citizens from fully benefiting fromresource wealth, revealing a significant ‘governance deficit’.

The index looks at four key areas of transparency and accoun-tability:• Institutional and Legal Setting: the degree to which laws, regulati-

ons and institutional arrangements facilitate transparency, accoun-tability and open, fair competition.

• Reporting Practices: government disclosure of information.• Safeguards and Quality Controls: the presence and quality of

checks and oversight mechanisms that encourage integrity andguard against conflicts of interest.

• Enabling Environment: the broader governance environment,based on more than 30 external measures of accountability, go-vernment effectiveness, rule of law, corruption and democracy.

Myanmar’s oil, gas and mineral wealth is an important part of its eco-nomic future. The previous military government was criticized for sel-ling off that wealth with little to show for it. Much of the profits wentout of the country but the perception that vast riches were accruedby former government ministers is wrong, according to Myint Aung.He says under economic sanctions and political isolation some poorinvestment decisions were made.

He says there is a lot of misunderstanding today when it comes totransparency owing to the record of the military government in thepast. The new democratic government is doing what it can to ensurethe mining sector is privatized and is much more forward looking whenit comes to Myanmar’s development.

Revenue Watch Institute president Daniel Kaufman defends the stu-dy’s findings but concedes that Myanmar is starting from a zero base.“The data comes from 2012 so it’s a benchmark where Myanmar wasthen which is very, very low. Since then they have started opening upand, talking to the reformers from Myanmar, they look forward for thenext measurement to show how much they are improving.”

Myint Aung says, “With regards to the mining law we are still in therevising and reviewing stage and working very much closely withAusAID to ensure the law is internationally recognized.”


Myanmar ‘working hard’ on mining

RECIPE FOR EXPLORATION SUCCESSBy Malcolm G Baillie, Forum for Exploration and Mining Develop-

ment chairman

WHILE geological know-how is an exploration manager’s pri-mary skill, it is not enough to guarantee success. There are manynon-technical issues to be managed even when a good resourceis present - effective corporate communication, dealing withsite-specific environmental and social issues, relationships withgovernment, and regulations.

First is communicating frankly and in a timely fashion with cor-porate management. The head office is usually offshore andmanagement may not be familiar with issues. It then has to re-port to shareholders, who are even less familiar and rapidly loseconfidence if shocks are encountered.

Environmental issues should not arise as the exploration impactis generally minimal but communities generally expect all ex-ploration to result in a mine, so it is important to consider thepotential impact at an early stage and to communicate with lo-cals. It is vital to establish sound community relationships butthis cannot be done without thorough community profiling andshould precede any field work. Once trust is lost, it is difficult torecover.

Dealing with government is critical. All government levels areinvolved and may not have a common view. Many regulationshave been issued recently and some have a negative effect onexploration while others are not clear. It is essential the explo-ration manager fully understands regulations and communi-cates their impact to corporate management.

New mines are essential to maintain the industry but dependon successful exploration. They are two very different activities- exploration involves high risk with less than 1% of projects lead-ing to a mine while mining is subject to feasibility before com-mitment. Quite different companies seek involvement in thesesectors yet regulations seek to cover both as if there is conse-quential follow on. It is more realistic to view exploration asleading to creation of new geological data and not a mine. Thegovernment should seek returns from mines and encourage ex-plorers to spend precious funds efficiently on finding them.

The necessary support could be provided within the Mining Lawif the difference between exploration and mining was under-stood. Approvals for exploration could be simplified and stream-lined to avoid unnecessary delays, and the need for explorationto be spread over more than one project is recognized. There aremany factors contributing to successful exploration – technicaland non-technical - but all need to be assessed before workstarts and all need continuous monitoring.

The Indonesian Forum for Mineral Exploration and Development

(EMD) is a not-for-profit association of domestic and foreign-

owned mining sector companies. Its aim is to advance minerals ex-

ploration and project development – contact Malcolm Baillie:

[email protected]


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INDOPHIL Resources is in discussions withthe newly formed Glencore-Xstrata regardingrestructuring and advancing the joint ventureon the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project. Indo-phil’s chairman Brian Phillips says Glencorehas demonstrated its willingness to actpromptly and decisively.

In his chairman’s address at Indophil’s annualgeneral meeting in May, Brian Phillips said,“Like most operators in the mining industry, In-dophil faces a new era in the context of a glo-bal economy under constant pressure, relativeturmoil inside the industry as commodity pricesare fluctuating, corporates rationalizing, andmineral resources depleting as the cost of newdiscovery increases and grades fall. Yet the pe-riod ahead has the potential to be a rewardingone for Indophil. Our position is:

• We have a significant share in one of theworld’s largest undeveloped, near-term,long-life, low-cost copper and gold as-sets.

• We have a strong understanding of ourhost country, the Philippines, and we havethe ‘A’ list of in-country business partners.

• We have a national government that hasnot only just completed an important pe-riod of elections, but one that under thesteady hand of President Aquino conti-nues to encourage not just foreign invest-ment but also responsible mineralsdevelopment. This comes on the back ofan already healthy national economy withstrong macro-economic fundamentalsthat in some quarters now boast invest-ment-grade credit rankings.

• A sound cash base – Aus$227 million.“It is important to reflect on the period

completed. On January 27, 2012, we an-nounced a healthy upgrade of the resourceestimate at Tampakan – from 2.49 billiontonnes to 2.94 billion tonnes at 0.51%copper with a 0.2% copper cut-off grade.This represented a tonnage increase of18% over the previous estimate, and reaf-firmed Tampakan’s ranking at the top endof the world’s most attractive undevelopedcopper deposits.

“A key development for Indophil, Tampakanand the minerals industry in the Philippinescame on July 9, 2012 when the PhilippinesGovernment issued a new Mining Policywhich reaffirmed the premise that existingcontracts would be honoured.”


Tampakan discussions advance

AFTER officially opening the Didipio Gold-Copper Project on May 15, OceanaGold de-clared commercial production at the operationin northern Luzon, about 270km north of Ma-nila. The Board of Directors reviewed themonthly operating metrics and cost profile,and has determined that the effective date ofcommercial production was April 1. All reve-nues and operating costs will be reported tothe income statement from that point.

OceanaGold’s managing director and CEOMick Wilkes said, “We are extremely pleasedto formally announce the declaration of com-mercial production at Didipio. This marks theofficial start to a very important chapter forOceanaGold as we transition into a multina-tional gold producer. Since constructionbegan in June 2011, the OceanaGold teamhas worked hard to deliver on its commit-ments to our stakeholders.

“We have successfully progressed from firstore in the mills to commercial production in justover three months which is a great accomplish-ment and a testament to the skill of the con-struction and commissioning teams resulting inthe seamless transition to our equally talentedoperations team. To date (mid-May), more than22,000 tonnes of copper gold concentrate hasalready been produced. I’d like to personallyacknowledge our government and community

partners for their ongoing support and contri-butions towards this achievement.”

The Board officially opened the mine onMay 15 with about 500 guests and dignitariesfrom the local communities and provinces inattendance. The day included numerous cul-tural performances from local childrengroups, award recognitions and tours of themine for the invited guests.

The company has reviewed production gui-dance for 2013 taking into account commer-cial production commencing on April 1.Guidance remains unchanged at 50,000-

70,000 ounces of gold and 15,000-18,000tonnes of copper at cash costs of negativeUS$370 to negative US$50 per ounce (net ofby-product credits).

The first shipment of Didipio concentrate de-parted from San Fernando port in the Philippi-nes in early April bound for Hibi, Japan. Theshipment comprised approximately 5000 drytonnes of copper-gold concentrate with thefirst cash receipt made in mid-April. Didipio isexpected to annually produce 100,000 oun-ces of gold and 14,000 tonnes of copper onaverage over an estimated 16 year mine life.

Commercial production declared at Didipio

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The Didipio mine in northern Luzon has been officially opened, becoming the Philippines’ newest mine.

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AFTER raising US$57.7 million in a placementto help fund development of the Runruno GoldProject, Metals Exploration has made an openoffer to shareholders with the aim of raising afurther US$5.972 million. The new offer is in-tended to provide a vehicle for shareholderswho did not take part in the initial placement tobe part of the company’s exciting future.

The Metals Ex Board believes the funds rai-sed in the open offer are not critical to the con-struction of Runruno and plans to fund theconstruction using the placement proceedsand by agreeing debt arrangements with thirdparty debt providers. The company intends toraise the additional capital of about $70 millionrequired for the development via debt funding.

The company estimates that aboutUS$130 million will be raised through debtand equity which will fully fund the project andprovide a sufficient level of working capital forthe operations and/or commitments pre-commercial funds flow.

Metals Ex continues to actively progress thedevelopment of Runruno by making significantadvances in both the funding package as wellas the physical construction activities. The bulkof early construction work is now completeand within budget with outstanding work ex-pected to be completed by the end of June.

An all-weather road has been constructedfrom the Solano-Runruno road into the pro-ject site and permanent power will be sup-plied from the national grid with the 22km,stage 1 overhead powerline from Maddiangatto Runruno to supply construction powermore than 60% complete. The majority of themining fleet has been purchased.

Metals Ex executive chairman Ian Holzber-ger says, “The general site works at Runrunocontinue unabated and it is satisfying to re-

port that the majority of the key earthworks.Infrastructure and access components of theproject have and are close to being comple-ted. By the middle of 2013 the site infrastruc-ture will be ready for the construction of theprocessing plant.”

Metals Ex will design and construct the pro-cessing plant using specialist contractors andsub-contractors after negotiations withLeighton Contractors (Asia) to enter into anECP contract were terminated.


Funds for Runruno development

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The processing plant pad viewed from the mine starter pit area at the Runruno project of Metals Ex, 200km north of Manila.

ST Augustine Gold and Copper has closed aprivate placement with Queensberry Miningand Development Corp for proceeds ofUS$11 million. The funds will be used forworking capital and to further advance theKing-king Copper-Gold Project, which is oneof the largest undeveloped copper-gold de-posits in the world.

King-king is a gold rich copper-gold por-phyry deposit in the southeast of the islandof Mindanao, 35km east of Davao City and13km from the coast. The project is listed asone of the top priority projects by the Philip-pine Mines and Geosciences Bureau. It hasa strip ratio less than one for years 1 to 5 andis in an advanced stage with 95,651 metresof drilling composed of 291 core and reversecirculation holes. King-king has entered thefeasibility stage of development (social, envi-ronmental and engineering phases).

A resource report released on August 15,

2011, shows that measured mineral resour-ces are 120.3 million tonnes @ 0.315% totalcopper, 0.112% soluble copper and 0.816grams/tonne gold; indicated mineral resour-ces are 841.9 million tonnes @ 0.245% totalcopper, 0.054% soluble copper and 0.316grams/tonne gold; and inferred mineral re-sources are an additional 188.8 million ton-nes @ 0.215% total copper, 0.048% solublecopper and 0.265 grams/tonne gold. Themeasured and indicated resource consists of5.4 billion pounds of contained copper and10.3 million troy ounces of contained gold.

The annual production target from years 2-5 is 395,000 ounces of gold and 267 millionpounds of copper. The heap leach operationprovides early low cost copper production forthe first 6 years of mining. There is a 22-yearproject life of mine with an additional 3 yearsof processing low grade stockpiles.

The placement of 55 million shares takes

Queensberry’s interest in St Augustine from7.56% to 17.98%. Queensberry is a relatedparty to the company due to the fact that itschief executive officer is a director of St Au-gustine. Queensberry also has entered intoan amended voting agreement with PegasiHolding that allows them to vote an additio-nal 15 million shares, which would give it a23.7% stake.

St Augustine’s CEO Andrew Russell says,“We are pleased to have our strategic part-ner, Queensberry, continuing its support ofSt Augustine and the King-king project.Their investment puts the company in astrong cash position to complete work onpermitting and feasibility.”

In October 2012 St Augustine and Philippi-nes-based company Queensberry announcedthe formation of a strategic partnership whereinQueensberry may ultimately acquire a totalstake in St Augustine of up to about 23.7%.

Placement boosts King-king funds


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THE Agata Mining Joint Venture between Mindoro Resources and TVIPacific is on track to begin direct shipping ore (DSO) at the Agata highiron nickel laterite project by the end of the year. DSO production,which is subject to economic viability, will be the culmination of the

stage 1 plan for the project which includes undertaking a feasibilitystudy and obtaining necessary approvals.

The JV has recently completed an updated NI 43-101-compliantresource estimate for the Agata North nickel laterite deposit. The de-posit contains a measured and indicated resource of 33.9 million drymetric tonnes (dmt) @ 1.1% nickel and a 2.0 million dmt inferred re-source @ 1.05% nickel. The estimate includes 7.9 million dmt orabout 10 million wet metric tonnes @ 48.5% iron and 0.94% nickelwhich the JV considers suitable for a high iron laterite DSO operation.

The near term objectives of the JV are to establish a high iron lateriteDSO operation and a limestone DSO operation while the mediumterm objectives are to establish pyrite material DSO operations, a limeproduction facility and a nickel processing plant.

Under the Agata Mining Joint Venture and Agata Processing JointVenture as well as the Pan de Azucar mining and processing joint ven-ture agreements signed in late September 2012, TVIRD, which is TVIPacific’s Philippine operating affiliate, is operating exploration and de-velopment activities and may earn a 60% equity in each JV subjectto satisfying certain milestones and/or expenditure objectives.

The stage 2 plan for the JV is to advance preferred low operatingcost nickel processing to pilot testing based on established hydro-metallurgical acid leach processing technology and then complete adefinitive feasibility study by the end of 2013. At Pan de Azucar theJV will evaluate the merits of using pyrite for sulphuric acid productionfor the Agata nickel laterite processing operation.

The high iron laterite and limestone deposits occur within 1km ofthe coast, which is expected to positively affect transportation costsdue to the close proximity of the mine pit and quarry to the port.


Agata DSO plan is on track

AS a result of positive bench-scale test work carried out at theAgata Nickel Processing Project, Mindoro Resources’ JV partnerTVI Pacific has commissioned and commenced operation of pilot-plant testing which will further define the technological parametersto be used in producing a bankable feasibility study with the goalof building a commercial processing plant.

The positive test work on nickel laterite ore, from the Agata nik-kel laterite deposit, confirms the Agata ore is highly amenable toacid leaching with a high rate of nickel extraction achieved at alow acid consumption rate. The process technology TVI is deve-loping, and which has produced these results, aims to achievemaximum nickel recovery and low acid consumption which trans-lates into increased metal production and lower operating costs.

Agata is in Agusan del Norte province, within the Surigao miningregion, a major nickel producing region providing ore to proces-sing plants in Australia, China, Korea and Japan.

About 1 tonne of ore was sent to Beijing General Research In-stitute of Mining & Metallurgy (BGRIMM) for bench-scale crushing,scrubbing, screening and leaching tests to confirm the optimalcircuit configuration and validate the processing process identifiedby TVI. A team of three TVI metallurgists was seconded to the

BGRIMM team for the campaign. TVI also set up a bench-scalelaboratory in Manila.

All optimum conditions identified in the BGRIMM tests havebeen validated, with excellent reproducibility of results betweenthe TVI and BGRIMM tests. More than 70 leach tests have beenconducted which conclusively illustrate that Agata ore is highlyamenable to acid leaching. Overall extractions of 94% nickel havebeen obtained at a relatively low acid consumption rate of 650kg/tore. This is encouraging when compared to other atmosphericacid leach processes.

About 12 tonnes of ore was sent to BGRIMM to continuouslyoperate a pilot plant that consists of, amongst others, primary lea-ching (atmospheric) and secondary leaching (low pressure auto-clave). To date, all ore has been blended, crushed, screened andmilled. Leaching commenced on May 13 to test a high grade(1.5% nickel) and a medium grade (1.3%) ore.

Pregnant leach solution from the BGRIMM pilot plant will beshipped to the Philippines and processed in the TVI downstreamnickel recovery pilot plant. This plant was to be commissioned inJune in order to be operational by July. The TVI pilot plant work isexpected to be completed during the third quarter.

Nickel pilot plant testing under way

Mindoro Resources’ joint venture projects and interests in the Philippines.


CONSTRUCTION for the mill expansion pro-ject at Medusa Mining’s Co-O Gold project innortheast Mindanao was expected to becompleted by the end of June, allowing pro-duction to begin. The SAG mill installationwas on schedule for commissioning in Junewhile the crusher was also set to be commis-sioned in June following the completion of42km of electrical cable installation in May.

The tie-in of the new crushing circuit to theexisting leach circuit during the June quarterwas expected to take 4 weeks, including on-going additional upgrade work not identifiedin the original assessment of the old mill cir-cuits which were to be incorporated into thenew milling complex. This resulted in reducedmilling time and has been taken into accountwhen re-estimating production guidance forthe remainder of the 2013 financial year.

The scheduled work during June followedcompletion earlier this year of the main sub-station and mill and mine transformer stati-ons, the thickener upgrade, the completionand conversion of the leach tanks to CIL, andthe commissioning of the detoxification plant.

Development at the Co-O mine has alsobeen continuing with the Saga Shaft nowoperating and primarily hauling waste andsome development ore. The first Alimak risefrom Level 8 to Level 6 is under way and the

second is being set up and both should beoperational in August. Ore from these passeswill be fed directly to the ore bins by con-veyor. The winze ore pass is expected to beconnected to Level 8 in July.

An Alimak rise has progressed 70 metresto deepen the Baguio Shaft from Level 3 toLevel 5 to provide access to additional ore,as well as to de-bottle neck shaft haulage inthis area. It is also planned to deepen theAgsao Shaft to Level 8 for haulage and ex-haust ventilation. The lateral development isincreasing to a minimum of 1000 metres permonth. Consequently a high proportion ofdevelopment ore will continue to be suppliedto the current mill and also stockpiled.

Exploration is also continuing and currentlythere are two diamond drill rigs operating atsurface and two diamond drill rigs operatingunderground. Recent surface results include1.20 metres @ 10.96 grams/tonne gold, 3.4metres @ 19.81 grams/tonne, 0.6 metres @19.60 grams/tonne and 4.4 metres @ 4.15grams/tonne. Recent underground results in-clude 0.75 metres @12.56 grams/tonne and0.7 metres @ 3.36 grams/tonne.

At the Bananghilig deposit a feasibility studyis expected to be completed during the cur-rent quarter while a sterilization drilling programof 2214 metres southeast of the Bananghilig

resource encountered significant mineraliza-tion and the potential for significantly increa-sing the resource base is highly probable.


Co-O mill expansion on schedule

COAL Asia Holdings has updated the valua-tion of mineable coal reserves within 400 hec-tares of its coal operating contract (COC)area in Davao Oriental, which is just 3% of thetotal coal concession area of 13,000 hecta-res. The proven reserves represent an esti-mated enterprise value of P4.1 billion atcurrent coal prices.

Called Bactinan and Macopa, they are twoof 11 deposits identified in COC 159. CoalAsia’s subsidiary Titan Mining & Energy Corpexpects to start commercial production in thearea in October, earlier than the January 2014schedule. The projects are expected to pro-duce 500,000 tonnes in the first full year ofoperations.

Titan commissioned a full feasibility studythrough an independent third-party consul-tant to re-evaluate the Bactinan and Macopa

deposits. The updated study confirms thatproven reserves stand at 5 million tonnes, justa fraction of the 123 million tonne resourceand reserve identified in the Philippine MineralReporting Code standard geological reportdone in April 2012.

In terms of mine life, the two sites that com-prise the study have tenure of at least 10years but once all 11 coal basins have beenexplored and mined as pairs at any giventime, the mine life will easily exceed 50 years,according to the company.

Coal Asia’s chairman Harald Tomintz sayshe is satisfied with the positive results of thefeasibility study and how it translates to thecompany’s valuation. “Despite the recent vo-latility of coal prices, the key financial indica-tors of the Bactinan and Macopa coaldeposits, as determined by the feasibility

study, speak volumes of the lucrative natureof this project.

“The valuation of the Bactinan and Macopadeposits alone already represents 103% ofCoal Asia’s current market capitalization. Andthis is just the tip of the iceberg. There areover 6000 hectares from the Zamboanga Si-bugay site and the remaining 6600 hectaresfrom the Davao Oriental site. And to add tothat, the effective mine life of the whole lot isequal to 50 years. This is not the end of thegood news, rather just the beginning.”

Coal Asia is also in talks to build a coal-firedpower plant but needs a partner. “On onehand we are focusing on developing the co-alfields and on the other hand, it is also ourgoal to have a power plant to fire our owncoal because of the shortages in Mindanao,”says Harald Tomintz.

Value of initial coal resource updated

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The headframe at Saga Shaft which is now operating, haul-

ing primarily waste and some development ore at Medusa

Mining’s Co-O project.


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THE latest results from Mining Group’s Comval Gold Project in easternMindanao confirm the presence of an additional gold-bearing struc-ture 80 metres west of previously discovered mineralization. The com-pany has received good gold grade results from trenching of a secondmineralized structure at Tandawan prospect, including 4.50 metres@ 4.37 grams/tonne gold and 1.50 metres @ 6.83 grams/tonne.

Mining Group’s managing director Zeff Reeves says, “Tandawan hasthe potential to become a significant gold target with a second gold

trend identified from recent trenching work. We are excited by the po-tential of this target as the mineralization is looking continuous alongstrike on both structures. Previous adit sampling has proven that thegrade continues into fresh rock, and with 200 metres of strike map-ped Tandawan is emerging as an exciting gold target.

“We intend carrying out further work at Tandawan in the comingmonths to extend the mineralized zone along strike. We will also lookto determine if additional gold-bearing structures exist across strike,and get an idea where the better parts of this system are located.”

Two additional trenches are being excavated to the south to confirmmineralization continuity. Two parallel gold-bearing structures have beennow discovered at Tandawan mapped over 200 metres along strike withbest results to date up to 7 metres @ 19.18 grams/tonne gold from aditsampling. Tandawan is southwest of the Tagpura North discovery.

The company has also confirmed the presence of additional eco-nomic copper and gold mineralization from initial drilling of the Kap-angawan target. Best intersections returned from drilling were 11.4metres @ 1.94 grams/tonne gold, including 5 metres @ 3.33grams/tonne gold and 1 metre at 7.57 grams/tonne. These inter-sections were hosted within strongly altered andesitic volcanics andprovide encouragement that mineralization not only occurs withinthe skarns but also within altered volcanic rocks, adding to the pro-spectivity of the target.

With ongoing positive results, the Comval project is delivering resultsto achieve the resource targets needed to deliver a robust, low costcopper and gold resource. With key prospects Bayag Bayag, TagpuraNorth and Kapangawan all delivering ore grade results, Mining Groupis a strong position to define each of these targets and begin conver-ting them into resources.


Tandawan new target at Comval

INTEX Resources is continuing discussions with potential partnersregarding realizing the value of its Mindoro Nickel Project. Particularfocus has been given to discussions with MCC8 which has recentlyproposed a possible listing of Mindoro Nickel in Asia and has alsointroduced experienced HPAL operators as potential partners.

While Tengfei has not met requirements for entering into due dili-gence, a new development has come from recognized Philippineinvestors and non-Asian partners. In addition to realization of Min-doro, Intex aims to strengthen its financial position to allow deve-lopment of new exploration projects. Management has examinedseveral cashflow projects that will cover the cost base and allowfor entering into new exploration projects.

It has been examining profit generating projects with short-termcash flow potential to strengthen its financial position, and allowfor building a wider exploration portfolio. These efforts have beenencouraged by positive political developments for mining in thePhilippines, with the moratorium for acceptance of applicationsfor exploration permits lifted. Intex expects the process of retur-ning the ECC will be resumed after the elections and has filed a

‘Motion to resolve Appeal’ with the Office of the President to re-solve the matter.

The company has also obtained endorsements from local govern-ment units in Mindoro through resolutions supporting the MindoroNickel project while results of test work for scandium, a potentialby-product that will reduce economic break-even for the project,are expected shortly.

Intex’s main priority is a realization for Mindoro Nickel. The pre-vious process in 2010 faced several challenges as potential part-ners were deeply involved with other projects and the processfaced impacts from the global financial crisis. It is the company’sview that external factors impacting the realization process haveimproved since 2010.

The long-term nickel market is expected to regain strength whennickel-pig iron will become unable to supply demand, as high-gradedeposits become depleted and the void will be filled by low-grade,low-cost laterite projects. Projects of potential partners are now inramp-up or coming into production, and consequently their view oftaking on new projects is improving.

Intex continues Mindoro Nickel discussions

Mining Group’s Comval project is on the highly prospective Philippines fault zone.


B2GOLD is evaluating opportunities to opti-mize operations and improve operating costsat the Masbate Gold Project on Masbate Is-land. Improved fleet efficiency, grade controland ore management strategies, and tailingsdam management strategies are among theareas under review.

The current focus is for B2Gold technicalstaff to work with Masbate onsite personnelto review and revise the mine geologicalmodel, metallurgical delineations, and plantrecoveries. Mine sequencing is being revie-wed and a new interim mine plan is being ge-nerated. Pit designs will be reviewed and newreserves issued early in the current quarter.

The potential for plant expansion will bemethodically investigated so that Masbate willbe set to move forward with a new life of mineplan and processing plan by year-end. An ex-tensive metallurgical test work program,which is essential groundwork for expansionanalysis, has been designed.

The project is on the island of Masbate. Itcan be accessed by a daily commercial airlineservice to Masbate city and a 70km drive onpartially sealed road to the site. The interestin Masbate was acquired by B2Gold in Ja-nuary 2013 through a merger with Australian-based gold produce CGA Mining. Since firstgold was poured May 12, 2009, the mine hasproduced about 500,000 ounces of gold.

The mine is projected to annually produceabout 200,000 ounces of gold, and has mea-sured and indicated mineral resource of204.3 million tonnes at a grade of 0.76grams/tonne gold containing 5.0 million oun-ces of gold and an inferred mineral resourceof 102.8 million tonnes @ 0.86 grams/tonnecontaining 2.8 million ounces of gold.

First quarter gold production at the minewas 43,554 ounces and attributable goldproduction to B2Gold based on the January16 acquisition date was 36,467 ounces at anoperating cash cost of $846 per ounce anda total cash cost of $889 per ounce from1,263,802 tonnes of ore milled at an averagegrade of 1.08 grams/tonne.


B2Gold considers Masbate optimization

BASED on average daily mill throughput goingforward of 2600 tonnes at TVI Pacific’s Cana-tuan Copper-Zinc Project in western Mindanao,open pit mining is estimated to be completedby the fourth quarter of this year while mill pro-cessing and concentrate shipments will conti-nue into the first quarter of 2014. In late Aprilthe company completed its 35th shipment ofcopper concentrate from Canatuan while anot-her shipment of zinc concentrate was expectedto be made in the middle of the year.

TVI expects to make four further copperconcentrate shipments during the remainderof 2013 and has scheduled two zinc ship-ments. Each of the copper shipments madeabout every eight weeks comprises about5000 dry metric tonnes while the five zinc

concentrate shipments made to date havetotalled 20,287 dry metric tonnes.

To date this year mill throughput has beenslightly below average but, as projected, onlya portion of original ore reserves have beenconsumed due to additional material beingfound and mined. This material, consisting ofbanded sulphides with low-grade chloriteschists, has been used as a blending materialto optimize mill recoveries and was locatedboth inside and outside the pit shell and notincluded in the original ore reserves. Detailedmetallurgical and ore reserve studies continueto be undertaken to determine future proces-sing scenarios and their potential impacts onthe ore reserves and mine life.

TVI has an extensive 352sqkm package of

tenement applications surrounding the Cana-tuan mine that make up the Greater Cana-tuan Tenement Area (GCTA). Volcanogenicmassive sulphide deposits, like Canatuan, ra-rely occur in isolation. Exploration on the pro-perties suggests 40+km of the same type ofgeology that hosts the Canatuan ore body.

TVI believes that similar Canatuan-style de-posits exist within the GCTA and that there isa potential for discovering extension develop-ments. Any mineable ore in this area could beeconomically transported to the existing Ca-natuan plant for processing, which would ex-tend the life-of-mine. The company isawaiting government approvals to authorizeexploration and drilling on the anomalies andprospects identified to date.

Canatuan open pit nears depletion

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A gold pour at B2Gold’s Masbate Gold Project on Masbate Island.


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RED 5 has suspended processing plant ope-rations at the Siana Gold Project after recei-ving geotechnical advice in early May that thetailings dam had been compromised and thatrectification to reinstate to operational statusis not recommended. There has been no spilland no consequential environmental damagewhile activity on site to mitigate any spill,should it occur, is essentially complete.

The company has completed a 240 metre-long, 20 metre-wide river diversion and back-filled the original 700 metre-long watercourse.These activities, together with the 900 metre-long, 3 metre-high containment bund, areprecautionary only. The land contained withinthe bund is company owned and may ultima-

tely be assigned to waste storage.Red 5’s managing director Steve Norre-

gaard says the focus is now directed towardsconstruction of a new tailings dam with thelocation selected several months ago as partof normal forward planning. “Knight PiesoldConsulting has been appointed to providethe design and cost estimate. Preliminarydesktop estimates have been completed butwithout technical drilling, which will take twomonths to conduct, the timing and estimatingaccuracy at this stage remains uncertain.”

He says the company is also undertaking astudy investigating the possibility of thicke-ning and filtering tailings to make a dry tailingsproduct able to be stacked, or a paste able

to be mixed with waste rock on the property.“If technically viable this may provide a solu-tion which would permit production to re-commence in a shorter timeframe.”

Mining activity at Siana has continued, inclu-ding the stockpiling of ore with all expandedareas now full. The company is in discussionwith the mine equipment supplier regarding thelevel of sustainable ongoing activity. Pit de-wa-tering including equipping of new perimeterbores continues. With milling operations sus-pended since early May, all of the carbon hasbeen stripped of gold and the plant is progres-sively being placed on care and maintenance.

Steve Norregaard says the company has alsocontinued discussions with its banker, Credit-Suisse, and its insurer. “In particular, discussionswith Credit-Suisse focus on a standstill arran-gement which is integral to the success of otherfinancing initiatives. Credit-Suisse has reservedits rights under the facility agreements.

“The company is considering various fun-ding and other alternatives to secure financefor the tailings dam construction and for wor-king capital for 12 months until income canbe derived from recommencement of millingoperations. While the tailings mitigation workis essentially complete and the operation isbeing orderly placed on care and mainten-ance, the timing and cost to recommenceoperations has not yet been determined withsufficient accuracy.”


Siana milling operations on hold

CADAN Resources has entered an agree-ment with Mighty River International of Sin-gapore for provision of a US$5 million loanfacility to be used to advance Cadan’s Philip-pines projects, primarily its operating T’BoliGold-Silver Project. In connection with theloan agreement Cadan, Mighty River and Ca-dan’s Philippine affiliate, Tribal Mining Corpo-ration, will enter into royalty agreementswhich will entitle Mighty River to receive a 1%production royalty on the T’Boli mine.

The loan facility may be drawn down in in-crements of US$1 million with amounts drawnto bear interest at an annual rate of 8% and arerepayable 12 months from the draw date.

Cadan has also filed an updated NI 43-101technical report for T’Boli, which is about

130km southwest of Davao City, and 40kmwest-northwest of General Santos City, in theProvince of South Cotabato, Mindanao. Tribalowns the licences covering T’Boli and Cadanholds a 40% direct interest in Tribal as well asrights in the project in line with a mineral pro-cessing option agreement, which providesCadan with an exclusive right to process orefrom Tribal’s mineral areas.

The T’Boli project consists of an historic un-derground mine and new processing plantconstructed by Cadan. Work on the projectby Cadan has included rehabilitation of anunderground mining tunnel known as theBeehive Adit and decline, accessed throughthe Mafoko portal. This work has exposedthe North and South vein sets for channel

sampling and mapping of the undergroundworkings, with face channel samples beingundertaken every 2 metres. Sampling hasalso been undertaken every 1 metre alongboth walls of the decline.

Underground exploration developmentwork along vein, including winzes and raises,can now be utilized for stope preparation.This has resulted in significant saving in capi-tal expenditure and time to production as ‘cutand fill’ stopes are expected to generate 100-200 tonnes per day throughout 2013 as re-quired by the processing plant.

To date the processing plant has averagedabout 40 tonnes daily but will require additio-nal capital expenditure to meet expecteddaily production rates of 100-200 tonnes.

Loan funds for Cadan’s T’Boli project

The processing facilities at Red 5’s Siana Gold Project in northeast Mindanao.


Philippines

RED Mountain Mining has planned the next stage of diamond drillingthat will test the Pica and Japanese Tunnel high grade gold discove-ries at Lobo project, which is part of the Batangas projects in southernLuzon. These prospects are adjacent to the South West Breccia de-posit that hosts an indicated and inferred resource of 194,000 tonnes@ 7.2 grams/tonne gold for 45,000 ounces.

Initially, two more holes are planned to test multiple east-dippinghigh-grade veins at Pica. Previous drilling from Pica included stronggold and silver grades associated with the multiple stacked veins in-cluded 5 metres from 22.4 metres @ 4.28 grams/tonne gold and15.75 grams/tonne silver including 1.3 metres @ 9.49 grams/tonnegold and 21.5 grams/tonne silver, and 1.7 metres from 58.1 metres@ 4.4 grams/tonne gold, 34.8 grams/tonne silver and 2.5% lead.Further drilling will then be planned along strike with the objective ofdefining a new gold resource at Pica.

Drilling has also been planned to test Japanese Tunnel prospect, 150metres southwest of South West Breccia where previous surface tren-ching results of 5 metres @ 10.43 grams/tonne gold, including 1 metre@ 25.14 grams/tonne, and 2 metres @ 18.12 grams/tonne gold inclu-ding 1 metre @ 28.69 grams/tonne were announced early this year.

Further trenching, 20 metres southwest of the initial trench, inter-sected a broad 8 metre zone of gold veining including 0.3 metres @3.9 grams/tonne and 0.75 metres @ 2.29 grams/tonne before theveined zone passes into an area of agglomerate and limestone cover.Initially three holes are planned to test Japanese Tunnel. Further dril-ling will then be planned along strike with the objective of defining anew mineral resource.

At Lobo, a series of epithermal lodes and breccias have been map-ped over a combined strike length of more than 15km. Previous dril-ling has only tested about a 500 metre strike length of the interpretedlode structures, to shallow depth of less than 200 metres. High-gradegold shoots have been identified at South West Breccia and the newWest Drift gold discovery. Regional trenching and channel samplinghas identified new veins/lodes and high-grade gold targets for furtherdrilling at Ulupong, Pica and Japanese Tunnel.


Red Mountain plans

next Lobo drilling

The Lobo project is part of Red Mountain’s Batangas project in southern Luzon.

ROYALCO Resources continues exploration on its Pao Gold-Cop-per Project in a corridor southwest of OceanaGold’s Didipio GoldProject. Pao is one of three tenements owned by Royalco inNueva Viscaya province, with others being Yabbe and Conwap.

At Pao trenching has continued at Mandiyo prospect while alimited geophysical program of IP and ground magnetics hasbeen conducted in the broader region. The surveys comple-mented studies undertaken in the 1990s with results generatedconfirming previously identified drill targets. Interpretations of re-sults has assisted with design of a diamond drilling program ofabout 2500 metres which will be implemented once ground ac-cess has been concluded.

At the adjoining Yabbe tenement phase 3 gold-copper ex-ploration will begin once NCIP approvals are in place. At Con-wap gold-copper prospect administrative requirements toconvert the existing FTA application licence to an explorationpermit are ongoing and will be advanced once phase 3 Yabbeapproval has been finalized.

At Gambang copper prospect discussions with third partiesinterested in potential JVs have been suspended until renewalof various exploration phases has been confirmed by the MGB.

Royalco continues Pao work

CRAZY Horse Resources is seeking interest from mining compa-nies in a trade sale or a JV for its Taysan Copper-Gold Project inBatangas province. Despite the attractiveness of the project andcontinuing strength of expected long-term copper prices, interesthas been tempered by poor market conditions for mining shares.As a result, the company has moved to conserve cash by reducingexpenditures to the minimum necessary for maintaining the site.

While Crazy Horse has previously completed its application forthe Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) mininglicence, the Philippine government has lifted its moratorium onapproval of FTAAs. Accordingly, the company proceeded swiftlyto strengthen its local footprint and focus on pursuing the is-suance of the FTAA and environmental approvals.

It has also appointed well-known Philippine national Jose Lev-iste III as CEO and director, Brian Lueck as COO, and previouschairman and CEO Mitch Alland as executive chairman.

Crazy Horse seeks Taysan interest

DMCI Holdings has signed an Engineering Procurement Con-tract (EPC) with South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation(SLTEC) for construction of an expansion at SLTEC’s power plantwhich is under construction in Calaca, Batangas. Under theEPC, DMCI together with China National Technical Import andExport Corporation will construct under a turnkey basis a second135MW coal-fired fluidized bed unit next to unit 1. Constructionof SLTEC2 is expected to begin in the second half of 2013 andthe target start of operations is 2016.

DMCI Power Corp is also building a power plant in Palawan tohelp avert a looming power crisis in the fast-growing province. Itwill use the newest and cleanest clean coal technology.

DMCI powering Philippines


China

A 10,000 metre surface diamond drilling pro-gram to test the extent of the known mine-ralized zone at New Pacific Metals’ newlyacquired RZY Silver, Lead and Zinc Project inQinghai province has commenced.

The company says this is a major part of its2013 exploration schedule which aims to de-velop a better understanding of the nature ofthe mineralization at the site in Qinghai pro-vince. New Pacific is a TSX-listed gold andsilver exploration and development companywhich also owns the Tagish Lake Gold Pro-ject in Yukon, Canada.

Historical assay results of trench, pit sam-pling and limited drilling indicated the presenceof high grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization atRZY. Multiple silver-lead-zinc mineralizedzones are hosted in a broad altered structurezone with a strike extent of 6.5km and widthof 25 to 100 metres. A soil geochemical an-omaly also indicates there could be anothermineralized zone to the north.

The $3 million exploration program will alsoinclude completion of a surface grid soil surveyand a geophysics survey to define future drilltargets. New Pacific is currently sourcing dril-ling equipment and preparing other resourcesnecessary for the exploration activities.

Last year, seven trenches were completedby RZY’s previous owner and assay resultsfrom the trenches confirmed the presence ofhigh grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization asindicated by the historical results. Five drillholes over 890 metres were drilled last yearto test the potential depth of the mineraliza-tion exposed by surface workings.

The assay results of the drill core samples

indicated that the mineralization occurs in themajor east-west structural zones and conti-nues at depth, although the width and gradesof the drill intercepts were inferior to the re-sults of the surface trenches and pits. Never-theless, New Pacific believes there is enoughevidence to justify continued exploration atthe project in 2013.

RZY is an early stage silver-lead-zinc explo-ration project about 237km from the capitalof Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture or820km via paved highway from Qinghai’s ca-pital city of Xining.

Earlier this year New Pacific Metals acqui-

red an 80% interest in Silvercorp Metals’subsidiary Fortress Mining. The letter ofagreement also gives New Pacific the op-tion of acquiring the remaining 20% of thecompany within two years for US$5 millionand following capital expenditure ofUS$15.9 million. Before the acquisition RZYwas 67%-owned by Qinghai Found Mining(QFM), a Sino-Foreign Co-Operative Com-pany established by Fortress and the Qing-hai Geological Survey Institute (QGSI) in2007. In 2011 QFM and QGSI agreed tojointly explore the project. Silvercorp is NewPacific’s largest shareholder.

RZY启动勘探工作新太平洋金属公司近期在青海省购买的RZY银铅锌项目准备进行10,000米地表金刚石钻探工作，用于检验已知的矿化区域范围。

该公司称这是其2013年勘探计划的重要部分，旨在对青海省该矿化区域的本质有进一

步的了解。新太平洋金属公司是一家在TSX上市的金银勘探发展公司，同时还拥有位于

加拿大育空地区的塔吉什湖金矿项目。

先前做过的探槽、探坑采样和有限的钻

探化验结果表明RZY存在高品位的银铅锌矿化。多个银铅锌矿化区处于一个大范围蚀变

构造带中，其沿走向长6.5公里，宽约25到100米。土壤的地球化学异常也表明可能在北部还有一个矿化区域。

该项价值300万美金的勘探工作还包括完成土壤地球化学勘探和地球物理勘探，来确

定未来的钻探靶区。新太平洋金属公司目前

正将钻探设备外包并准备勘探活动所需的其

他必要资源。

去年，RZY先前的持有者完成了7条探槽，这些探槽取得的结果确认了此前历史结

果提到的高品位的银铅锌矿化。去年完成了

5个累计超过890米的钻孔来检测地表工作发现的矿化区域可能的深度。

岩心样品的化验结果表明矿化出现在东西

主构造带并向深度方向延续，虽然钻孔见矿

宽度和品位不如地表探槽和探坑。尽管如

此，新太平洋金属公司相信有足够证据支持

该项目在2013年继续勘探。

RZY是一个初期银铅锌勘探项目，距离玉树藏族自治州的首府237公里，距离青海省会城市西宁820公里。今年年初，新太平洋金属公司收购了希

尔威金属公司子公司Fortress矿业80%的股权。协议还赋予新太平洋金属公司期权，使

其可以在2年内以500万美元和随后1590万美元的后续资本支出来购买该公司剩余的

20%股权。在此次收购之前，RZY 67%的股权为青海发恩德矿业有限公司（QFM）公司持有，该公司是是一家中外合资企业，由

Fortress和青海省地质调查院（QGSI）于2007年共同成立。2011年QFM和QGSI达成意向共同开发该项目。希尔威是新太平洋金

属公司最大的股东。


Exploration program kicks off at RZY

New Pacific Metals has started exploring silver, lead and zinc mineralization at the RZY project.

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China

MINCO Silver is focusing on permitting for theFuwan Silver Project in Guangdong provinceas well as pursuing a strategy to secure alarge mining group in China as a businesspartner. Several large mining groups have ex-pressed an interest and Minco has hostedsite visits, data reviews and preliminary dis-cussions, but no definitive agreements havebeen concluded.

Following approval granted by GaomingCounty Government for development of theproject in December 2008, Minco has focu-sed on permitting in order to apply for a mi-ning licence. The pivotal aspect of applyingfor the licence is to complete the Environ-mental Impact Assessment (EIA).

The company completed water monitoringfield work last year and received a compre-hensive water monitoring report from Geo-Environmental Monitoring of GuangdongProvince. The report concluded the companyis in compliance with requirements of the newNational Water Guidelines. The company hassubmitted the report to Guangdong NuclearDesign Institute for revision of the original EIA,which will be submitted to the Chinese envi-ronmental protection authority for approval.

Fuwan is along the northeast margin ofFuwan Silver Belt, about 45km southwest ofGuangzhou, the fourth largest city in Chinawith 13 million people. The company has fourreconnaissance survey exploration permitson the deposit, having a total area of172.50sqkm, covering a major part of thenortheast-trending belt. The two-year explo-ration permit for the main deposit area endsin July 2013. Another three silver explorationpermits are held by Minco China in trust for

Foshan Minco and these permits end on April7, 2014.

The preliminary mine design is nearingcompletion and will be released after the re-quirements from the approved EIA are consi-dered. The company has made significantpermitting progress:• The Chinese Preliminary Feasibility Study

was completed by Changsha Non-Fer-rous Mine Design Institute and approvedby an expert panel.

• The Mining Area Permit, which coversabout 0.79sqkm, defines the mining limitsof the deposit and restricts the use of thisland to mining activities, was approved byMOLAR and renewed subsequent to theoriginal approval in October 2009. The re-newed permit will expire on July 20.

• The Soil and Water Conservation Plan wascompleted and approved.

• The Land Usage Permit was approved byGaoming County, Foshan City and Gu-angdong provincial governments. It wasrenewed for a one year period until De-cember 31, 2013.

• The Geological Hazard Assessment wascompleted and approved in September2009.

• The Mine Geological Environment Treat-ment Plan was reviewed and approved bythe Environment Committee of ChinaGeology Association.

• The preliminary Safety Assessment draftreport was completed in December 2011and submitted to the Safety Bureau of Gu-angdong Province for approval.

富湾许可申请工作进展顺利

明科银矿公司目前重点放在广东省富湾银矿

项目许可证申请工作和以商业伙伴的身份在

中国组建大型集团上。多个大型矿业集团对

此很有兴趣，明科为此组织了现场视察，数

据审查及初步讨论，但尚未得到明确结论。

自2008年12月高明县政府批准了该项目的发展后，明科开始着眼于申请开采许可。

许可申请的核心方面在于完成环境影响评估

报告（EIA）。公司去年完成了水质监测实地测量工作，

并从广东省地质环境监测总站得到全面的水

质监测报告。报告表明公司符合新的国家水

质标准要求。公司已将报告上交至广东省核

工业设计院对原稿进行修改，最终修改版将

上交中国环境保护部进行审批。

富湾项目位于富湾银矿带东北边界，距离

拥有1300万人口的中国第四大城市广州西南约45公里。公司持有该矿床的4个普查勘探许可，总面积172.50平方公里，覆盖东北走向带的大部分区域。主要矿床区域为期两

年的勘探许可将于2013年7月到期。其他三个银矿勘探许可由明科（中国）以信用托管

形式代佛山明科持有，将于2014年4月7日到期。

矿山初步设计已经接近完成，待考虑获批

后的EIA要求后公布。公司许可申请工作已取得了显著进展：

• 中国初步可行性研究由长沙有色冶金设计院完成，并通过专家团队审批。

• 覆盖0.79平方公里的开采范围许可确定了该矿床的开采边界，限定了土地开采行为

的使用，已经由国土资源部批准，2009年10月的原始审批结果已经得到了后续的延期。延期的许可将于7月20日过期。

• 土地和水质保护计划已经完成并审批通过。

• 土地使用许可由高明县，佛山市和广东省政府批准。续期一年，2013年12月31日到期。

• 地质灾害评估于2009年9月完成并获批。• 矿山地质环境治理方案由中国地质协会环境委员会审批通过。

• 初步安全性评估报告初稿于2011年12月完成，并已提交给广东安监局等待审批。


Fuwan permitting well advanced

Soil anomalies along the Fuwan Silver Belt in Guangdong province.


SINO Prosper State Gold Resources Hol-dings is continuing with the acquisition ofSuccess State Development which will resultin it holding the mining rights of the Qing JiaoGold Project in Guizhou province. The pur-chase has been delayed by licensing and re-organization issues which are taking longerto resolve than originally expected.

The reorganization involves Success Stateobtaining renewed exploration/mining right ofsome contiguous gold properties and inte-grating these rights into the mining permit ofthe Qing Jiao project. Sino Prosper has re-cently been informed by its legal advisers andby Success State that the reorganization isprogressing but since it is subject to appro-vals by various Chinese authorities of differentlevels, it is taking longer than expected. Theacquisition agreement was signed in Decem-ber 2011 by Sino Prosper and Leung NgaiMan, a director and substantial shareholder

Sino Prosper has also engaged a qualifiedCompetent Person, SRK Consulting(China), with a view to conducting the ne-cessary technical evaluation at Qing Jiaoand the contiguous gold properties. LeungNgai Man has also appointed a local geolo-gical and resource survey institute to con-duct geological survey and resourceestimation. When there is material progressof the reorganization, the Competent Per-son will prepare and issue a JORC-compli-ant independent technical report.

The Qing Jiao project is expected to add tothe company’s existing portfolio of Chineseassets, including the operating Aohan QiGold Project in Inner Mongolia and the explo-ration stage Zhongyi Weiye Polymetallic GoldProject in Heilongjiang province.

Late last year Sino Prosper also signed the‘MFA Agreement’ with Leung Ngai Man forthe acquisition of Treasure Join Limited whichindirectly holds a number of Chinese compa-nies engaged in micro-financing and financialmanagement consulting businesses in JilinCity. The companies are now collectivelyknown as the MFA PRC Group.

The MFA PRC Group began business inDecember 2012 and has reported to SinoProsper that demand for micro-financingloans in Jilin City are overwhelming. It saysthat as it is mainly financed by equity capital

and does not borrow from other entities, theoperating and finance costs are generallyfixed, and the gross profit margin and the re-lated net profit are relatively high.

Sino Prosper has appointed auditors toaudit the financial statements of Treasure Joinand its subsidiaries for the period endedMarch 31, 2013, and it expects that the cir-cular to be despatched to shareholders inconnection with an extraordinary generalmeeting to be convened to consider and voteon the MFA Agreement may be despatchedon or before June 30.

箐脚项目收购推迟

中盈国际资源控股有限公司正在继续跟进对

Success State开发公司的收购，中盈将因此获得贵州省箐脚金矿项目的矿权。此次收

购由于证照与重组问题已经被推迟，所需要

的时间较预期更长。

根据此次重组，Success State公司须取得部分现有邻近黄金矿场的重续勘探/采矿权，并将这些采矿权与箐脚项目中采矿许可

证合并。中盈已接获其法律顾问和SuccessState公司就重组事项发出的更新报告，重组正在进行中，但是由于重组须获得中国各

级审批部门的批准，所以，需要时间较预期

更长。中盈与其主要股东兼董事梁毅文先生

于2011年12月份签订了收购协议。中盈亦已委聘具有资质的SRK咨询（中国）有限公司对箐脚及邻近黄金矿场进行所

需技术评估。梁毅文先生亦委任当地地质及

资源勘探研究所，进行地质调查及资源估

算。若重组出现重大进展，SRK将编制并发布一份JORC合规独立技术报告。箐脚项目预计将增加中盈在中国现有的资

产组合，包括位于内蒙古目前正在运营的敖

汉旗金矿项目和位于黑龙江的正处于勘探阶

段的中谊伟业黄金多金属矿项目。

去年年底，中盈还与梁毅文先生就收购

Treasure Join有限公司签订了小额贷款收购事项协议(MFA)，Treasure Join有限公司间接

持有吉林市众多从事小额贷款及财务管理资

源的中国公司的股权。这些公司现在统称

MFA（中国）集团。MFA（中国）集团于2012年12月开始营业，已经向中盈报告了吉林市对小额贷款需

求的殷切。MFA（中国）集团主要由股本资金提供资金，而非向其他实体借款，经营及

融资成本一般为固定，但利润率及相关纯利

润率相对较高。

中盈已委任审计师审核Treasure Join公司截至2013年3月31日期间的财务报表，预期将于6月30日或之前向股份寄发通函，而有关通函将涉及召开股东特别大会，以考虑及

批准MFA协议。


Qing Jiao project acquisition delayed

China

Underground mineralization at a Sino Prosper gold property in China.


Mongolia

FULL-SCALE operations at Turquoise Hill Re-sources’ Oyu Tolgoi Copper-Gold Project(OT) are imminent. By the end of June thecompany expected production rates at theconcentrator to be consistently running at70% of capacity and to have started shippingconcentrate. It also expected to have signedfinal project financing documents.

As the second quarter advanced, TurquoiseHill and its majority shareholder Rio Tintocontinued to have productive discussionswith the Government of Mongolia on a rangeof issues related to implementation of the OTInvestment Agreement, including project de-velopment and costs, operating budget, pro-ject financing, management fees andgovernance. While progress was made, allparties agreed to continue discussions witha goal of resolving the issues in the near term.

At the end of the March quarter, con-struction of the OT open-pit mine and con-centrator complex was complete, and mineinfrastructure was substantially complete.

Total capital invested in the initial develop-ment and construction of the mine toMarch 31, 2013 was about US$6.0 billion.The final cost for initial development andconstruction is expected to be aboutUS$6.2 billion.

Major updates for the first quarter and plansfor quarter 2 included:• On January 31, 2013, OT produced its

first copper-gold concentrate followingprocessing of first ore through the concen-trator in early January.

• In quarter 1, 24.5 million tonnes of materialwas moved from the open pit, 8.5 milliontonnes of ore was moved to the stockpileand about 875,000 tonnes of ore was de-livered to the crusher. During the quarterabout 525,000 tonnes of ore was proces-sed by the concentrator.

• Production rates have progressively in-creased and achieved daily run rates of upto 60% of nameplate capacity. It is antici-pated that the concentrator will be consi-

stently running at production rates of 70%of nameplate capacity and begin ship-ments of concentrate by the end of June.

• Underground lateral development at HugoNorth deposit continued and 1319 metreswere achieved in quarter 1. As at March31 the total distance excavated was13.7km.

• Construction of Shaft 2 continued. Thedepth of the shaft is 1081 metres belowsurface, 82% of its final depth.

• Sinking activity for Shaft 5 began in April.This will provide primary ventilation for un-derground operations and is expected tohave a final depth of about 1200 metres.

• Construction of infrastructure was behindschedule at the end of quarter 1 due toslower progress in building the road to theborder and diversion of Undai River.

Turquoise Hill and Rio Tinto have been en-gaged with lenders to finalize the project fi-nancing plan and term sheet with the aim ofraising approximately US$4 billion.


Full-scale Oyu Tolgoi operations imminent

THERE has been a 675% increase in JORC-compliant resources covering three clustereddeposits within Haranga Resources’ SelengeIron Ore Project in northern Mongolia. Thenew total resource is 254.4 million tonnes atan average grade of 17.2% iron for 44 milliontonnes of contained metal based on a 12.5%cut-off grade, of which 99.8% is in the mea-sured and indicated categories.

The Dund Bulag deposit hosts 199.9 millionmeasured and indicated tonnes @ 16.4%iron, the Bayantsogt deposit hosts 35.7 mil-lion measured and indicated tonnes @ 22.9%iron and 550,000 inferred tonnes @ 16.7%,and the Undur Ukhaa deposit has 18.2 mil-lion measured and indicated tonnes @ 15.4%iron. It is expected that further drilling at Se-lenge will expand the Dund Bulag and UndurUkhaa resources and confirm further iron tar-gets within the project area.

Initial Davis Tube Recovery (DTR) results in-dicate that a high quality 66% iron concentrateis attainable from the Selenge grades. Progres-sive grind tests are under way to determine op-timal metal recovery conditions and potentiallyfurther enhance the results of the initial DTR

study. Once the grind characteristics are opti-mized it is intended to generate a yield-basedresource estimate for use in preliminary sco-ping studies and a full feasibility study.

Based on the updated resource and me-tallurgical test results, Haranga has startedthe mining licence application process for

Selenge, which is in the heart of Mongolia’spremier iron ore development region withexcellent access to the Trans-MongolianRailway and nearby rail spurs. It is just 15kmfrom the 5 million tonnes/annum Eruu Golmine, Mongolia’s largest magnetite concen-trate rail export operation.

675% iron resource increase at Selenge

The recently completed rail spur line linking the Eruu Gol iron ore project with the Trans-Mongolian Railway. This

line is close to the Selenge project.

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Mongolia

ASPIRE Mining’s Mongolian subsidiary Nort-hern Railways LLC has appointed SnowyMountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC)to help advance planning and developmentof the Erdenet to Ovoot rail project which willconnect Aspire’s Ovoot Coal Project with ex-port markets. The global infrastructure engi-neering company will provide a range ofservices including completing a full re-optimi-zation of the rail alignment.

This process will include site visits, risk andconstraint analysis, permitting and govern-

ment approvals as well as a rail concession,engineering and design to allow for the EPCtendering and a bankable feasibility study. Theappointment follows a revision by SMEC of apre-feasibility study for the western section ofthe proposed rail line which indicated that amore direct route further to the south wouldsave $200 million in construction costs and re-duce ongoing annual operating expenses.

Aspire’s managing director David Paullsays, “The work has been broken up intophases with discrete decision points and per-

formance milestones before the next phaseof work commences. The value of the workto be provided by SMEC is about $9.8 millionto be expended in two stages over 12months. Stage 2 is at the option of NorthernRailways. The cost will be funded from the $5million Noble Group loan facility.” NorthernRailways also retains an option to appointSMEC as EPC Contract Manager.

“We have been working with SMEC for sixmonths on addressing critical rail projectrisks and it makes sense, with their in-coun-try expertise and experience, for SMEC tobecome our rail engineering partner forwhat will be a large and important projectfor Mongolia,” he says.

The SMEC revision also highlights that thealternate route poses less risk from an envi-ronmental, geotechnical and hydrologicalperspective. The revised rail line is 595km inlength, down from 628km and its forecastcost is now US$1.3 billion which includes a20% contingency buffer. This estimate assu-mes annual rail capacity of 22 million tonnesand further construction cost savings can bemade by reducing the initial capacity to 10-12 million tonnes and then increasing it asadditional freight commitments arise.

Aspire says a further advantage of the newsouthern alignment is that it crosses into theZavkhan province to the south, potentiallyproviding rail access to this area.


SMEC appointed to advance rail project

SOUTHGOBI Resources resumed operationsat its Ovoot Tolgoi Coal Project in late Marchand plans to produce 3.2 million tonnes ofsemi-soft coking coal this year. The 2013 mineplan assumes conservative resumption of ope-rations, designed to achieve a cost effectiveapproach that will allow operations to continueon a sustainable basis and align production le-vels with forecast market conditions.

For the March quarter of 2013 SouthGobiproduced 20,000 tonnes of raw coal comparedto production of 1.07 million tonnes of raw coalwith a strip ratio of 2.07 for the same quarter of2012. Production was significantly impacted bythe curtailment of operations from the secondquarter of 2012 until March 22, 2013.

Moving forward, saleable products fromOvoot Tolgoi will primarily be based on a twoproduct strategy and will consist of South-Gobi Standard and SouthGobi Premiumsemi-soft coking coal products. The Stan-dard and Premium semi-soft coking coal pro-ducts will be produced from raw semi-softcoking coals, together with raw medium andhigher-ash coals which can be washed andblended into the semi-soft coking coal pro-ducts. Some higher-ash product will be soldas a thermal coal product as required.

On February 13, 2012, SouthGobi an-nounced the successful commissioning ofthe dry coal-handling facility (DCHF) atOvoot Tolgoi. The DCHF has capacity to

annually process 9 million tonnes of run-of-mine (ROM) coal. It includes a 300-tonne-capacity dump hopper, which receivesROM coal from the mine and feeds a coalrotary breaker that sizes coal to a maximumof 50mm and rejects oversize ash. TheDCHF is anticipated to reduce screeningcosts and improve yield recoveries.

The company has received all permits tooperate the DCHF, however, the 2013 mineplan considers only limited utilization at thelatter end of the year due to higher qualitycoals being mined that likely will not requireprocessing through the DCHF and can besold raw or processed directly through thewet washing facility.

SouthGobi resumes coal production

A more direct rail route to the south of Moron has been identified for the Erdenet to Ovoot rail project.


Indonesia

TWO new mining clubs for Indonesia - DjakartaMining Club and Coal Club Indonesia - werelaunched at a gala dinner in Jakarta in April withmore than 130 people in attendance. Theclubs have been organised by Mining MediaInternational, publishers of The ASIA Miner andCoal Age Indonesia, and will be coordinated bythe Mining Media team in Indonesia with sup-port from the Australian office.

Djakarta Mining Club will meet regularly inJakarta and serves to foster bilateral business

relationships while promoting sustainable mi-neral production through educational outre-ach, promotion of exploration and planneddialogue between mining stakeholders.

Coal Club Indonesia will meet regularly atvarious coal strongholds throughout Indone-sia. It represents a natural development forIndonesia’s thriving coal industry and hasbeen developed to enable B2B and B2Gconnections to be made, thus creating op-portunities for local/domestic and internatio-

nal businesses in a rapidly growing industry.The launch featured addresses from repre-

sentatives of the principal foundation memberof the clubs, Caterpillar, along with gold spon-sors Reed Exhibitions and Weir Minerals.Orica is another sponsor. Further informationis available by visiting www.djakarta-mining-club.com or www.coalclubindonesia.com orby emailing Dimas at [email protected] in Indonesia or Lanita [email protected] in Australia.


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FRESH high-grade gold and silver assays point to the possible dis-covery of a new zone of mineralization at Sumatra Copper & Gold’sTembang Gold-Silver Project in South Sumatra. The results are con-sidered significant because any additional resources from this zonewould be easily and economically accessed via the planned Belinauunderground decline development. Mining at Belinau is expected startin the December quarter.

Two exploration holes were completed in April to test a potentialnortherly vein intersection of the main lode. Assays have been recei-ved for the first of these holes which was drilled to a depth of 125metres and intersected a zone of typical high-grade banded epither-mal quartz veining from 71.2 metres. A wide interval of quartz-calcitestockworks was also intersected from 72.64 metres. The hole endedin mineralization. Results are 13.3 metres from 70.7 metres @ 4.4grams/tonne gold and 8.8 grams/tonne silver from 70.7 to 84 metres,including 3.30 metres from 72.2 metres @ 13.4 grams/tonne goldand 21.1 grams/tonne silver.

Assays are pending for the other hole which was drilled about 50metres to the northwest to a depth of 143.8 metres. It intersectedtwo narrow zones of quartz-calcite stockworks from 84.25 to 84.70metres and from 88.75 to 89.35 metres. This indicates mineralizationmay be decreasing to the north, however, this requires further valida-tion through drilling.

With the recognition of potential splits or hanging wall zones peri-pheral to the main vein system, further infill sampling of previous geo-technical/metallurgical drill holes in 2011/2012 have been completed.A metallurgical hole intersected 2 metres from 39.2 metres @ 13.02grams/tonne gold and 71.5 grams/tonne silver while a geotechnicalhole intersected 2.4 metres from 101.1 metres @ 4.19 grams/tonnegold and 9.3 grams/tonne silver.

These results highlight the continued high-grade exploration poten-tial around the Belinau vein system. The company plans a review ofthe structural controls of gold mineralization followed by further dia-mond drilling which was due to start in June.

Sumatra’s managing director Julian Ford says the results highlight thestrong potential to increase the Tembang resource inventory. “Theseresults suggest we may have a new zone of mineralization which couldnot only supply additional ounces but would also be economically at-tractive given its close location to the planned Belinau decline.”

Tembang has proven reserves of 2.4 million tonnes @ 2.5grams/tonne gold and 38.7 grams/tonne silver for 200,000 ouncesof gold and 3 million ounces of silver and probable reserves of 3.1million tonnes @ at 2.1 grams/tonne gold and 25.6 grams/tonne silverfor 200,000 ounces of gold and 2.5 million ounces of silver.


Assays point to new Tembang zone

Indonesia

Results highlight strong

potential to increase the

Tembang resource inventory


Indonesia

ASSAY results from the 2012 drilling programconducted by Robust Resources at the BatuHitam East prospect of the Lakuwahi projecton Romang Island support the potential foran updated, upgraded and expanded re-source estimate. The company has recentlyreceived results from 26 drill holes with po-tentially economic gold, silver and copper mi-neralization intersected in all holes, indicatingexcellent geological continuity of ore zones.

Results include 30 metres from 11 metres@ 2.28 grams/tonne gold and 40grams/tonne silver, including 8 metres from15.5 metres @ 7.66 grams/tonne gold and121 grams/tonne silver; and 5 metres from20 metres @ 3.01% copper. There is furtherexploration upside potential for oxide gold-sil-ver mineralization with the resource remainingopen to the north, east and south.

The drilling program was designed to sup-

port the potential upgrade of the resourcemodel and expansion of the resource base.The near-surface, high-grade gold and silver in-tersections received from Batu Hitam Eastsupport Robust’s objective to identify additionaloxide material to be used as early stage feedto the intended heap leach mining operation.

The open areas of the resource are subjectto ongoing drilling to test extensions toknown mineralized zones. The company iscurrently drill-testing the area immediately tothe south of the hole that returned the 30metre intersection. This hole was adjacent toprevious high-grade gold intersections whichincluded 16 metres from 30 metres @ 1.42grams/tonne gold and 81 grams/tonnes sil-ver, including 5 metres from 31 metres @ 3.0grams/tonne gold and 122 grams/tonne sil-ver; and 10 metres from 115 metres @ 4.88grams/tonne gold and 13 grams/tonne silver.

Robust’s managing director Gary Lewissays, “The drilling in late 2012 at Batu HitamEast was designed to delineate near-surfaceoxide and transition gold-silver mineralizationwhich could add to the existing oxide mineralresources. The company is encouraged bythe results, with mineralization in all holes,and is continuing the drilling program to testhigh-grade targets and extensions to the mi-neralization encountered.”


Assays support expanded resource estimate

EAST Asia Minerals Corporation has receivedpositive results from its phase 1 drilling pro-gram at the Sangihe Gold-Copper Projectwhich should increase the resources, tonnagesand grades for the Binebase and Bawone de-posits. The program was completed in Apriland East Asia has since started metallurgicalstudies to consider processing options.

The Sangihe project is on the island of San-gihe off the northern coast of Sulawesi. It hasan existing NI 43-101 compliant inferred mi-neral resource of 836,718 ounces of gold andalmost 12 million ounces of silver, using a0.25 grams/tonne gold cut-off. Together withits other projects in Aceh Province, Sumatra,TSX Venture Exchange-listed East Asia hasan NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource ofmore than 4 million ounces of gold.

At Sangihe a second phase of drilling is beingconsidered to begin in the latter half of 2013

comprising 10,000 metres. The objective willbe to identify resource extensions and definiti-ons at Binebase, Bawone and Taware. Thecompany will also drill scout holes to test forextensions from Bawone to Salurlang. Furtherscout holes are planned for the Kuring andKupa valley prospects which are known tocontain high-grade veins and have extensiveartisanal mining activity. Trenching samples re-trieved by the company from Kupa have beenassayed at in excess of 30 grams/tonne gold.

East Asia’s vice president of explorationFrank Rocca says, “The latest drilling resultsidentified two further significant mineralized in-tercepts in the northwest portion of the Bine-base resource with two drill holes extending thenorth-western boundary of the current re-source further to the west. Likewise at Ba-wone, two drill holes will enable us to extendthe current Bawone resource further to the

west and along strike to the southeast. The re-sults further demonstrate the potential at San-gihe to increase the existing mineral resource.”

At Binebase one hole returned 6 metresfrom 3 metres @ 2.50 grams/tonne gold andanother returned 5 metres from 13 metres @5.17 grams/tonne, both in oxide mineraliza-tion. One of the Bawone holes contained twosignificant sulphide zone intersections – 8.5metres from 45 metres @ 6.10 grams/tonnegold and 0.74% copper, and 85.8 metresfrom 80.5 metres @ 1.19 grams/tonne goldand 0.26% copper. Another Bawone hole in-tersected 15.25 metres from 66.6 metres insulphide mineralization @ 3.05 grams/tonnegold and 0.49% copper, including 5 metresfrom 70.6 metres @ 4.33 grams/tonne goldand 0.49% copper, and 3.25 metres from78.6 metres @ 4.89 grams/tonne gold andabout 1% copper.

Successful Sangihe drilling program

Drilling at Robust Resources’ Lakuwahi project on Romang Island.


CHANGES in government regulations alongwith local community commitments haveprompted Indo Mines to review its strategyfor the Jogjakarta Iron Project in Java andfocus on accelerating pig iron production.The new emphasis has led to a significant in-crease in activities relating to full-scale directreduced iron metallurgical testing.

The tests include the coal gasification of In-donesian coal and associated iron sand re-duction and smelting test work. The work tiesin with Indo Mines’ vision to be Indonesia’s

number one producer of pig iron and asso-ciated products from iron sand.

Following completion of a placement ofshares to Rajawali Group, a number of seniorappointments were made to the manage-ment team of Indo Mines’ 70%-owned sub-sidiary PT Jogja Magasa Iron (JMI).Subsequent to the appointments, an in-depth analysis of the company’s short andlong-term strategy was undertaken.

Accelerating pig iron production was thekey outcome of this review. A key componentof achieving successful implementation ofthis project is simultaneous development ofrequired infrastructure, including electricpower generating capacity, port develop-ment, air separation plant, slag handling andprocessing. JMI is in discussion with potentialpartners and reviewing the project manage-ment and integration structure.

The pig iron project will be implemented inphases, depending on export approvals, withstage 1 targeting 500,000 tonnes of iron con-centrate production capacity in the first halfof 2014, climbing to the required 2 million

tonnes capacity by the latter part of 2015.The pig iron plant and associated infrastruc-ture is expected to begin production in thefirst quarter of 2017.

JMI has concluded that the preferred locationfor the pig iron plant is at the western end ofthe Contract of Work (CoW) area. As a resultJMI is required to resubmit its feasibility studyto the government for approval of the new lo-cation but this does not impact the CoW. Landnegotiations to secure the site for permanentplant facilities and associated infrastructure areprogressing well with strong local support.


Indo Mines to focus on pig iron production

Indonesia

The secondary concentrate plant at the pilot opera-

tions of Indo Mines.

A shallow mining pit at Indo Mines’ Jogjakarta Iron

Sands Project.


Papua New Guinea

GOLD Anomaly has received approval todrive an exploration adit and cross-cuts at theHigh Grade Zone (HGZ) of Nevera prospectin the Crater Mountain Gold-Copper Project.This work, along with underground drilling,sampling and metallurgical testing, is targe-ted at defining a gold resource beneath sur-face gouges and shallow undergroundworkings conducted by village miners from2005 to early 2013 in the base of a smallsteep spur at HGZ during which time theyproduced about 15,000 ounces of gold.

The approval by the Papua New Guinea Mi-neral Resources Authority follows submissionby Gold Anomaly’s subsidiary Anomaly Limi-

ted of a Variation of Approved Program forthe Crater Mountain project.

Geological mapping of remnant surfaceexposures and several drill intersectionshas identified the mineralization as steeply-dipping high sulphidation high-gradequartz-pyrite-gold veining and related stee-ply plunging ore shoots, with a strong po-tential for the high gold values worked atsurface to extend to depth. Detailed geolo-gical mapping of the adit, cross-cuts anddrill core will allow the company to developa more comprehensive understanding ofthe mineralization than is possible frommapping and drilling at the surface, and in-

tensive sampling including limited bulk testwork will assist in establishing accurategold grades and provide test material foroptimizing recovery and developing a mineflow sheet.

It is anticipated that simple gravity me-thods will be sufficient to recover a significantproportion of the gold based on observationsof recovery methods practiced by local mi-ners. Bulk samples will be taken from differingmineralized material for trial processing onsite. This is likely to include washing andscreening, hand sorting and crushing of highgrade oversize and recovery of a gravity con-centrate which can be directly smelted.

A mining lease will be applied for as soon asan economically viable deposit can be demon-strated. At this stage it is considered that thelikely method of future underground mining willbe by decline using loaders and undergroundtrucks from a portal 10 to 15 metres lowerthan the proposed exploration adit.

Gold Anomaly has also increased its stake inCrater Mountain to 100%, acquiring interestsowned by Triple Plate Junction (8%) and CelticMinerals (2%). Gold Anomaly paid Aus$250,000for the 10% stake. The company’s chairmanGreg Starr says the move to secure full owner-ship will facilitate ease of administering and ma-naging the project, while also making it moreattractive to potential joint venture partners.


Approval for adit at Crater Mountain

MARENGO Mining has decided that additio-nal work is required in a number of specificareas before a final feasibility study can beprepared for the Yandera Copper-Molybde-num-Gold Project. The major component ofthis work will involve identifying an alternativecost-competitive source of power after Ma-rengo’s preferred third party power providerdecided to withdraw from the proposedpower supply arrangements.

The decision follows a review by Marengoof the progress of recent technical work insupport of a feasibility study. This was carriedout in consultation with the company’s majorshareholder, The Sentient Group.

The feasibility study indicates that Yanderahas the potential to generate substantialcash flows. However, in the absence of apower solution that can support the project,

it is exposed to escalating capital and ope-rating costs. Further opportunities to en-hance the project include a review ofoptimized ore throughput rates; reviewingthe option of Deep Sea Tailings Placement(DSTP) rather than a land-based TailingsManagement Facility (TMF); and further op-timization of the mine plan.

A detailed review of recent technical workin support of the study will be undertakenby the technical committee established byMarengo and Sentient to implement a pro-gram to enhance project returns. The ob-jective is to help ensure the project is robustat all phases of the commodity price cycle.Sentient, which is providing funding supportto Marengo through a recently announcedUS$15 million private placement of conver-tible debentures, will be involved with Ma-

rengo’s project team in this next phase oftechnical optimization. Marengo has startedhigh-level discussions with the PNG Go-vernment regarding other potential powersupply options for the project. Power is amajor issue currently confronting a numberof PNG mining companies seeking to deve-lop major new resource projects.

The company’s Chinese partner, ChinaNonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engi-neering and Construction Co (NFC), has rei-terated its support for the project and willbe closely involved during the technical op-timization. The engineering, procurementand construction pricing provided by NFCin February 2013 provides a strong founda-tion for project development and Yanderaremains one of NFC’s premier offshore de-velopment projects.

Additional Yandera feasibility work required

Workings of shallow high-grade deposits at Gold Anomaly’s Crater Mountain project.

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India

ASTRA Resources is concluding the acquisi-tion of two iron ore mines in the eastern stateof Orissa, with acquisition terms now final.The mines have existing mining leases inplace and Astra is in the process of renewingmining licences covering both sites.

Astra’s CEO Dr Jaydeep Biswas says thefirst of the two sites is a 26.7 hectare non-forest mine which has been producing high-grade iron ore of 62-65% iron. It has upwardsof 40 million tonnes of estimated iron ore.

“The mine is 158km from Halida port, only ashort distance from the railway line, ensuringsmooth logistic connectivity.

“Astra will begin the process of submittingthe mining plan and environmental impactstudy, both of which are mandatory steps toramp up the production on a larger scale.“The acquisition terms of the first mine willhave no effect on the Astra capital structureor profit and loss,” he says.

The second mine, which covers an area of

more than 243 hectares, is in the Keonjhar di-strict of Orissa and has very high grade ironore reserves. Astra’s managing director Sil-vana De Cianni says this mine is also in theprocess of ‘renewal of mining licence’ andAstra will complete an environmental impactstudy on the site.

“A detailed mining plan is to follow, alongwith JORC-compliant drill data. Expected re-serves are well over 500 million tonnes witha grade of 63-plus per cent iron. The large re-serves present on this site will be assessedby internationally qualified geologists to eva-luate whether any additional capital invest-ment in mining expansion is required. Theirfindings will contribute to the JORC-compli-ant mining report, Silvana De Cianni says.

“With a rail line in the vicinity of this miningproperty, logistics will not be an issue, andbottlenecks that hinder many iron ore produ-cers in the area will not affect Astra.” The minehas road access and utilities, and access tothe national rail network to local and interna-tional markets is about 4km away with a newspur to be built at the standard governmentconstruction costs. The cost of contract mi-ning on-site is expected to be between $20-25 per tonne at mine-head. Acquisition for thesecond mine will be on majority scrip basis.


Astra moves closer to acquisition of iron mines

AUSTRALIAN uranium will be needed if Indiais to negotiate energy insecurity issues con-fronting its emergence as the world’s nexteconomic behemoth, according to a formerAustralian Deputy High Commissioner toIndia. Speaking at the Paydirt 2013 UraniumConference in Adelaide, Rakesh Ahuja saidthat next to water shortages, India’s most cri-tical crisis was energy insecurity and the im-plications for Australia of India’s quest forenergy security could not be ignored.

“The current backbone of India’s energy iscoal, with all of its problems but the fact isthat even coal is going to be very scarce atIndia’s present rate of economic growth andwill face an annual domestic shortfall in justfour years of 300-400 million tonnes,” RakeshAhuja said. “That will be good news for Au-stralian coal producers but bad news forIndia. It is all the more reason why that after40 years of being in the nuclear wilderness,

India is set to become a global player in nu-clear-related trade, investment and techno-logy transfer.

“Australia has two things India needs toallow nuclear energy to fuel its emerging mo-dern day economy and that is secure ura-nium supply and uranium at far better gradesthan its own poor quality uranium ore. India’sreserves of uranium are very modest and itsore quality ranges between 0.03% and0.06% whereas it needs to be above 0.2%so India does not have uranium options.

“That is why half of its reactors are workingat less than 60% optimum capacity simplydue to a lack of suitable uranium. The Austra-lian uranium industry has to prepare theground to be ready to compete with othersuppliers, particularly Canada, once the Sa-feguards Agreement with India is in place.”

Rakesh Ahuja said Australia also needed tovalue the fact that the international nuclear

sanctions imposed on India since 1974 hadprovided a catalyst for a concerted indige-nous development of nuclear power stationsand industrial facilities to service military andcivilian nuclear establishments.

“As a result, India has one of the world’smost advanced nuclear energy sectors, hasa large well-trained workforce in the nuclearindustry, has mature technological infrastruc-ture and is providing nuclear related servicesto foreign entities. But Australia’s decision toopen up uranium sales to India is a gamechanger and Australia is in the driving seat toharvest millions of dollars in sales.

“We need to sensitize the Indian side of whatAustralia can offer India compared to Canadaand we must recognize that India’s nuclearmarket is a nationalized one and we need toinitiate discussions equally with the relevant In-dian government agencies and potential pri-vate sector stakeholders,” he added.

India will need Australian uranium

The geology of Orissa with the iron ore belt to the north in a ‘U’ shape.

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AFTER achieving record plant throughput atits two gold projects in central Vietnam, BesraGold expects to increase gold production atthe Phuoc Son project as it starts mining hig-her grade ore at the Bai Go undergroundmine. This was expected to occur by the endof the June quarter and is forecast to conti-nue for the remainder of the year.

The mining of higher grades follows lowerproduction at both the Bong Mieu and PhuocSon projects owing to gold grades beingbelow expectation. Besra’s CEO John Setonsays the Bai Go higher grades are expectedto enable the company to achieve annualmarket guidance of 60,000 ounces.

During the quarter ended March 31, Besraproduced 13,589 ounces of gold and sold12,200 ounces, the difference being an increa-sed holding of gold inventory at the end ofMarch in preparation for settlement of the goldloan commitment in the June quarter. Sales of12,200 ounces of gold in the third quarter reali-zed US$19,812,500 at an average price ofUS$1624 per ounce. Cash operating cost perounce sold was US$794, up from US$658 forthe previous quarter. All-in costs of US$1330were down from US$1357 in quarter 2.

John Seton says, “The past few monthshave seen significant falls in the gold priceand falling equity prices, particularly amongmid and lower tier companies. Lower goldprices will negatively impact cashflow butBesra management has taken a range ofstrong measures to bolster performance.”

He says cost reduction initiatives are beingfulfilled, coupled with improved mine efficien-cies and increasing production ultimately tar-geted on a reduction of cost per ounce ofUS$100-150 per ounce over the next 12months. Additional savings are expected to bemade by reducing selective exploration, cor-porate expenses and headcount at all levels.

“Vietnamese production levels and comple-tion of the Bau, East Malaysia, feasibility willremain unaffected by the proposed budge-tary reductions,” he says. “Exploration conti-nues at Phuoc Son with the aim of expanding

the resource and extending the life of themine. The feasibility studies for the BongMieu extensions at Ho Ray and the world-class development properties at Bau are ontrack. Funding of the Bong Mieu expansion

is expected to be undertaken by domesticbanks in Vietnam. Following completion ofthe Bau feasibility and analysis of the projecteconomics, Besra will consider all availableproject financing options.”


Besra mines higher grade Bai Go ore

Vietnam

A gold pour at one of Besra Gold’s Vietnam properties.

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Australia

RESULTS from a maiden exploration drillprogram at Atlas Iron’s Corunna Downsproject have confirmed a significant disco-very of direct shipping ore (DSO) iron ore.The ongoing drilling is testing one of severalzones of surface iron enrichment previouslyidentified at the project in the North Pilbararegion of Western Australia.

To date 31 reverse circulation (RC) holeshave been completed with the assay resultsreceived for 11 of those holes. The best re-sults include 234 metres from surface @59.2% iron, 194 metres from 6 metres @59.5% iron, 180 metres from 8 metres @58.8% iron and 63 metres from surface @59% iron. The assay results to date indicate

low alumina and moderate phosphorousand appear complimentary to Atlas’ existingshipped product specification.

While no exploration target has been defi-ned for the project to date, the current drillingprogram continues to test the several Ban-ded Iron Formation (BIF) units identified. Themineralization remains open to the north andwest. Further work to define additional drilltargets over the extensive 20km-plus strikelength of prospective stratigraphy that Atlasholds in the region is under way.

Atlas recently exercised its option to com-plete the purchase of the entire underlyingmineral rights to the Corunna Downs projectarea, which is strategically located between

Mt Webber and McPhee Creek.“The first round of drilling results at Co-

runna Downs are spectacular and we lookforward to seeing the remaining outstandingassays from this first pass drilling,” Atlasmanaging director Ken Brinsden says.“They also demonstrate the additional po-tential still to be realized from our North Pil-bara portfolio.”

Atlas has two separate exploration teamsin the field - one drilling at Corunna Downsand the other adjacent to its Pardoo Ope-ration. Additional priority drilling at Abydosand Miralga Creek is expected to be com-pleted in the coming months, in addition tocontinued drilling at Corunna Downs.


Significant DSO discovery at Corunna Downs

THE ramp-up of Gindalbie Metals’ KararaIron Ore Project in Western Australia is conti-nuing to progress with the plant expected toreach annual nameplate capacity of 8 milliontonnes during July. The company has en-countered no material issues during the com-missioning process.

Commissioning of the Karara Concentratoris being undertaken in stages with commis-sioning of seven of nine key areas completeat the end of May. These include the majorcomponents of the critical front-end crushingand grinding circuit of the plant – the primaryand secondary crushers, high pressure grin-ding rolls (HPGRs) and ball mills. All of thesecomponents have successfully operated atup to their design throughput rate.

During June the project team focused oncommissioning the final two remaining areas– the polishing circuit and a group of ancillaryfunctions including the tailings circuit. Twothirds of the polishing circuit had been com-missioned by the end of May and is operatio-nal, resulting in initial improvements to themagnetite concentrate grade up to 65% iron.The final concentrate grade of 68% is expec-ted to be achieved with the commissioning ofthe flotation circuit.

After the initial ramp-up of the plant to 70%production throughput capacity, some relativelyminor filtering problems were encountered withthe tailings circuit which temporarily restrictedplant throughput. To overcome these issues, a

troubleshooting process was undertakenwhich identified an immediate resolutionthrough installation of additional piping andpumping capacity. The necessary additionalequipment has been ordered and the rectifica-tion work was expected to be progressivelycompleted during the second half of June.

The project team is targeting achieving na-meplate capacity and premium concentratespecifications in July subject to the timely in-stallation of the new equipment and in the ab-sence of further issues.

Meantime, product shipments are conti-nuing and at May 27 the Karara project hadshipped 3.4 million tonnes through the KararaExport Terminal in Geraldton. There had been46 shipments of DSO hematite completed for

a total of 2.7 million tonnes and 11 shipmentsof magnetite concentrate for 700,000 tonnes.

As the project has not achieved commercialproduction levels or been declared cash-flowpositive, the slower-than-expected shippingschedule will have an impact on the forecastworking capital requirements of the joint ven-ture company Karara Mining Limited (KML),which is working on a number of potentialfunding solutions to assist with short-termworking capital requirements. KML has com-pleted a $US44 million magnetite concen-trate pre-payment agreement with Ansteeland is working to progress further prepay-ment agreements. KML has also started dis-cussions regarding a potential restructure ofits debt repayment schedule.

Karara plant near nameplate capacity

Construction work on the concentrator at Gindalbie Metals’ Karara project in Western Australia’s Mid West.

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SUCCESSFUL completion of a scopingstudy has prompted Eastern Iron to under-take a feasibility study into development of amining operation at its Nowa Nowa Iron Pro-ject in eastern Victoria. The scoping study en-visages that ore will be mined at an averageannual rate of around 1 million tonnes froman open pit at the Five Mile deposit by a con-tract mining operator.

It recommends that ROM ore would thenbe beneficiated at site by magnetic separa-tion (LIMS) for average annual production of800,000 tonnes of ‘fines’ product, whichwould then be loaded into standard B-doubleroad haulage trucks and trucked to a port onthe south side of Twofold Bay, south of Edenin New South Wales, for loading onto bulkcargo vessels for export.

During the feasibility study Eastern Iron willinvestigate various means to optimize re-turns. These include low-cost methods of im-proving product quality and increasing ironrecovery to product. The first stage in thiswork has been to investigate wet LIMS sepa-ration in contrast to dry separation.

The results of this test work indicate consi-derable improvement in the efficiency of se-parating the various mineral phases. Thetests were conducted on three separate drillcore composite samples crushed to minus

1.6mm and treated by wet magnetic separa-tion at 800 and 1100 gauss.

The results show an enhancement in the ironlevels and a reduction in the silica and sulphurlevels of the final product. Overall averagemass recovery was 66% and iron recovery76%. Further optimization work will focus onscavenging iron (hematite) from the non-ma-gnetic tail to increase total iron recovery.

The resulting wet LIMS product is a highquality iron product similar to many magne-tite concentrates in iron content and the

level of deleterious elements but superior inbeing a coarse product which does not re-quire pelletizing and can be sold as a blastfurnace feed.

The company is now focusing on a reversecirculation/diamond core drilling program atthe Five Mile deposit to infill the current re-source model; to investigate extensions tothe current resource; to provide samples forfurther metallurgical test work including crus-hing tests and ore variability studies; and toprovide geotechnical data for mine design.


Feasibility under way at Nowa Nowa iron project

MOLY Mines has entered into a sale agree-ment for iron ore produced at the SpinifexRidge Iron Ore Mine in Western Australia’s Pil-bara region with Mineral Resources Limited(MRL). The transaction will see wholly-ownedsubsidiary Moly Metals Australia (MMA) sellore from the mine to MRL at the mine gate.MRL will operate the mine to the end of themine life and it is intended to assign variousMMA operating agreements to MRL.

Moly Mines will retain all the tenementsand its rights in relation to its Spinifex RidgeMolybdenum/Copper Project and may con-tinue or re-commence work programs forthat project.

MRL will pay MMA a purchase price calcu-lated on the basis of an agreed minimum pro-duct tonnage. The actual minimum producttonnage will be determined on the basis of

the tonnage available under the current mineplan at the time delivery to MRL commences.Delivery was expected to commence by theend of June at which time about 2.4 milliondry metric tonnes (dmt) was estimated to beavailable under the current mine plan.

Based on these estimates the purchaseprice will total about Aus$38 million. Thisprice is payable in two instalments, mostly byan upfront payment and the remainder by afinal payment once the economic life of theSpinifex Ridge Iron Ore Mine has been ex-hausted. MRL will have the choice of payingfor the majority of the iron ore delivered incash or by issuing MRL shares. The final pay-ment is subject to adjustments to reflect thequantity and quality of iron ore.

MMA’s ongoing contractual and statutoryobligations as tenement holder are estimated

to be between Aus$6 and $7 million for thelife of mine. MMA will also pay out redun-dancy entitlements to its site staff.

MMA and Hanlong Metals had an offtakeagreement in place for the sale of all iron oreproduced from the Spinifex Ridge Iron OreMine for the life of mine. To provide for theMRL transaction, MMA and Hanlong haveagreed to terminate the offtake agreementand the associated parent company guaran-tee by Hanlong Resources in respect of theofftake agreement. MMA and Hanlong havebeen engaged in good faith negotiations toagree a new pricing mechanism for the off-take agreement. As these negotiations havenot resulted in a newly agreed pricing mecha-nism, MMA and Hanlong have agreed to ter-minate the agreement regardless of whetherthe transaction proceeds.

Moly Mines signs iron ore agreement

Australia

The Nowa Nowa project of Eastern Iron is in eastern Victoria.

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Central Asia


KENTOR Gold has sold its interest in the An-dash Gold-Copper Project in the Kyrgyz Re-public to fellow Australian-based explorerRobust Resources. Robust has agreed to ac-quire the Andash Mining Company, whichowns 80% of the project, with the acquisitioncost amounting to Aus$15 million.

The Andash project is in Kyrgyz Republic’snorth-west within the Central Asian OrogenicBelt, which forms part of the Tien Shan GoldBelt that hosts some world-class gold depo-sits, including Muruntau (110 million ounces),Almalyk (80 million ounces gold-equivalent)and Oyu Tolgoi (50 million ounces gold-equi-valent). It is 280km from the capital Bishkekand is well serviced by existing infrastructureincluding road, rail, power and water.

The sale is in line with Kentor’s strategy tofocus on the exploration and development ofthe potentially large and financially robust Jer-vois Copper-Gold Project in Australia’s Nort-hern Territory. Under the terms of theagreement, $1 million will be paid immedia-tely, with the balance payable on completionof the transaction expected in June onceshareholder approval, the completion of duediligence, and regulatory approvals havebeen received.

A 2010 definitive feasibility study (DFS) con-firmed the Andash project could annually de-liver 70,000 ounces of gold and 7400 tonnesof copper over a six-year life of mine. Based

on a US$3.50 per pound copper price and agold price of US$1300 per ounce, the projecthas a net present value of $241 million.

Andash has a reserve of 539,730 ounces ofgold and 63,486 tonnes of copper, with signi-ficant exploration upside. An existing team oflocal mining and exploration professionals hasbeen retained to progress the project’s deve-lopment. The acquisition also includes an in-ventory of mining plant and equipment whichhas already been deployed in the Kyrgyz Re-

public. The DFS also concluded that, whencomplete, the Andash mine would be one ofthe world’s lowest cost producing gold mines.

Robust managing director Gary Lewis saysthe acquisition is an integral step in creatingan Asian-focused low-cost mining and explo-ration company. “The transaction is in linewith our strategy of building a pipeline of ad-vanced, low-cost, precious metal projects inthe Asian region, a strategy we have articula-ted for some time.”

THE greater than anticipated movement ofwaste rock at the Davidov Valley principaldump site of the Kumtor Gold Project in theKyrgyz Republic has prompted Centerra Goldto accelerate the planned relocation of certainmine infrastructure. Employees in the affectedbuildings have been moved to temporary worklocations until new facilities are constructed.

In the December 2012 Kumtor technical re-port and in the life-of-mine plan, the movementof the Davidov Valley waste-rock dump requi-red relocation of certain mine infrastructure in-cluding workshops, administrative facilities andelectrical substations. The company has expe-dited the relocation process to ensure conti-nued safe operations and planned goldproduction to date has not been affected.

As a result of this increase in movement,Centerra Gold has discontinued depositingwaste-rock on the affected portion of the Da-vidov dump. For the interim, the company isplacing waste-rock on permitted sites unaf-fected by the movement. An alternative long-term waste-rock dumping plan is beingfinalized and approval from the relevant Kyr-gyz regulatory authorities and external engi-neering advisors will be expedited. Thegovernment has established a special com-mission to visit the Kumtor mine site and in-spect the waste-rock dump movement.

Centerra’s president Ian Atkinson says it’scrucial the alternative plan is put into actionas soon as possible. “While the company ex-pects that it will be able to develop alternative

plans that will permit the mine to continueplanned operations and that such alternativeplans will receive prompt regulatory approvalfrom the Kyrgyz authorities, the companycannot give assurances in this regard. In theevent that an alternative plan cannot be de-veloped or approved promptly we would ex-pect a negative impact on mine operations,production and financial results.”

Last year, the Kumtor mine complex was atthe centre of a government dispute aboutcontinuing operations and environmental is-sues. In the company’s March quarter reportIan Atkinson said: “We are continuing to havediscussions with the Kyrgyz authorities to re-solve the issues concerning Kumtor to thebenefit of all Centerra shareholders.”

Waste rock movement accelerates relocations

The Andash project is within the highly prospective Tien Shan Gold Belt that stretches across Central Asia.

Kentor sells Andash to Robust

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On the move


St Augustine Copper & Gold has appointed a new chieffinancial officer after the resignation of Robert Orr,due to personal reasons. JuliAnn Issler has as-sumed the role after being company controllersince July 2011.

Medusa Mining has appointed Gary Powell as non-executive director, bringing extensive Philippinesoperating experience. Attorney Raul Villanueva hasbeen appointed executive director following his ap-pointment as president of Medusa’s Philippines op-erating company Philsaga Mining.

Indochine Mining has appointed Dr Michael Leggo asnon-executive director. He has had many years’experience in international mineral exploration &development and environmental & sustainabilitymanagement.

SouthGobi Resources has appointed Bertrand Troianoas chief financial officer. He brings a wealth of ex-perience to his new role, having a strong familiaritywith the mining industry.

Western Mining Limited has announced an additionalBoard member in Christopher J Clower, who has ex-tensive experience in the Indonesian natural re-sources sector.

Red Mountain Mining has confirmed the appointmentof Jon Dugdale as its managing director.

The Steinert Group has appointed David Armstrong asmanaging director Australia and South East Asia. It hasalso appointed Ezio Viti as sales director-global mining.

Straits Resources has appointed Michele Muscillo asnon-executive director. He is a partner specializingin corporate law with HopgoodGanim Lawyers andis also non-executive director of Orbis Gold.

Intrepid Mines has appointed Garry Gill to the role ofcompany secretary. He is a Chartered Accountantwith over 30 years’ experience.

Haranga Resources has appointed Mongolian nationalErdene Tsengelbayar as managing director followingthe resignation of Dr Robert Wrixon. Mr Erdene waspreviously director of operations for the companyand remains executive director of Haranga’s Mon-golian subsidiaries.

PHI Group has retained Agus Budiluhur as seniormanaging geologist to manage its exploration andmining activities in Indonesia and South East Asia.

Chaarat Gold has appointed Mac DeGuire as a non-executive director and David McNee as chief oper-ating officer. Mac DeGuire has been in theinternational mining industry for more than 40 yearswhile David McNee is a mining engineer with 24years of experience in Africa and Central Asia.

Coppermoly Limited has appointed Tom Revy asnon-executive chairman. He is a mining profes-sional with more than 30 years’ experience in theindustry.

Orpheus Energy has appointed John Stone as com-pany secretary replacing executive director DavidSmith who has been acting in the role since July2012. John Stone has more than 40 years’ expe-rience in capital markets for a range of public andprivate companies.

NSL Consolidated has appointed Wayne Richards, as non-executivedirector. He was recently managing director of Brockman Re-sources and previously worked with BHP Billiton Iron Ore andAnaconda Nickel.

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On the move

Asia Now Resources announces the appointment ofDr Wenjin Yang to the Board of Directors. He is chieffinancial officer and director of Yunnan Dong XinMineral Exploration Company and Yunnan NowMineral Exploration Company being Asia Now’stwo joint venture companies in China.’

Altan Rio Minerals has appointed of Anthony Jacksonas chief financial officer. He is a principal of Bridge-Mark Financial Corp and a founder of Jackson &Company Chartered Accountants, a company thatassists private and public companies with their ac-counting and tax requirements. He replaces RobertScott as Altan Rio’s CFO. The company wishes tothank Robert Scott for his contribution over the pastyears and wishes him well with future endeavours.

Baobab Resources has appointed Dr Mohan Kaul as anon-executive director. He was appointed the firstdirector-general and CEO of the CommonwealthBusiness Council (CBC) on its establishment by theCommonwealth Heads of Government in Edin-

burgh in October 1997. He completed his term asdirector-general and was appointed CBC co-chairon March 31, 2012. He is currently a member ofthe Presidential Advisory Councils of Mozambique,Uganda and Zambia. Baobab also announces thatnon-executive director Jon Crowe will step down tomake way for Dr Kaul. Jon Crowe was a foundingdirector of Baobab.

Lithium producer Galaxy Resources announces theresignation of Iggy Tan as managing director afterhe decided to pursue other interests. Under IggyTan’s leadership Galaxy’s management has built aglobal lithium company with assets across fourcontinents. Executive director Anthony Tse has been

appointed interim managing director. Followingcost review initiatives, the following directors de-cided not to stand for re-election - non-executivedirectors Dr Yuewen Zheng and Shaoqing Wu, inde-pendent director Michael Spratt, and executive di-rector Charles Whitfield.

Turquoise Hill Resources announced that directorsLivia Mahler and Peter Meredith would not stand forre-election at the annual meeting of shareholdersas a result of changes in Robert Friedland’s hold-ings in the company. Additionally, Dan Larsen, a RioTinto nominee, did not stand for re-election.

The directors of SolGold plc are pleased to announcethe appointment of Alan Martin as chief executive of-ficer of SolGold and its subsidiaries. Nicholas Matherwill remain as executive director to assist Alan Mar-tin during a transitional phase over the next 12 to 24months. He brings to SolGold more than 20 years oftechnical, commercial and financial investment ex-perience in the Australian resources industry.

PepinNini Minerals has announced the appointment of RebeccaHolland-Kennedy as managing director and Phil Clifford as tech-nical director.

Ivanhoe Australia intends to reduce its Board from eight membersto six, with two of the non-executive directors, Ian Plimer andNeville Henwood, to resign in early August.

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Australian Suppliers Directory

THE Australian Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS)sector contributes 6.4% to the Australian economy and is one of Aus-tralia’s largest export sectors, according to an Austmine study re-leased at the Austmine 2013 International Conference and Exhibitionin Perth during May.

Based on a survey of 860 METS companies, the study found thesector generates Aus$90 billion in revenue and 84% of the companiesare Australian-owned. The surveyed companies export $27 billionwith an estimated $15 billion component generated specifically fromMETS-related activity.

The survey, conducted from December 2012 to March 2013, is thelargest undertaken to date of the sector. It was funded by the FederalGovernment’s Buy Australian at Home and Abroad program, part ofthe Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science Re-search and Tertiary Education, and managed by Austmine.

“This survey is extremely timely in identifying how important mining-re-lated knowledge, skills, manufacturing and services are to the Australianeconomy and the mining sector itself,” says Austmine’s deputy chairElizabeth Lewis-Gray. “Not only is the METS sector significant in sizeand scope, but it is highly innovative and its close collaboration with min-ing companies has become a source of innovation which has beenleveraged to create world-leading, highly sought after mining solutions.”

“METS companies can be found across Australia with capital cities,regional and remote locations benefiting from revenue, jobs and ex-ports. Manufacturing and product supply firms make up 40% of thesector’s total value, rebalancing the dominant emphasis in the Aus-tralian economy on services. METS are highly internationalized andexport to every corner of the globe with 55% of companies surveyedand 41% of exporters having offices or operations offshore. Of thosecompanies that do not currently export, 18% plan to export in thenext 1-2 years,” she says.

“The METS sector is also relatively young with 73% of Australian-owned METS being established in the last 30 years. Reflecting on thelong innovation cycles in the mining sector, this means there is acrowd of younger METS companies that have not yet maximized theirvalue to the mining sector and the best is perhaps yet to come.”

The survey found that METS businesses are highly diversified andoften work across several minerals and more than one phase of themining lifecycle. Many have also transferred their skills into other in-dustries, helping smooth market fluctuations and mitigate risk.

“METS companies spent in excess of $1.6 billion in R&D in FY2012,with 58% of those surveyed contributing to this total,” Elizabeth Lewis-Gray says. “This is well above other industry averages and signifies ahigh level of commitment to innovation. Collaboration between miningcompanies and with other supply companies is equally as high.

“With many capital projects now being deferred, it is a challengingtime for the sector and it is critical that METS and mining companiesaggressively collaborate to deliver the productivity gains required tomaintain Australia’s competitiveness in the mining sector globally. Wefurther need to encourage the government to provide the right policy

framework to support the mining industry as a whole, including sup-porting the globally competitive and strategically positioned sectorthat is METS.”

Austmine is Australia’s leading association of the Australian MiningEquipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector. It promotes theglobal advancement of technology, collaboration and innovation inmining, and proactively works to raise the profile of the sector in Aus-tralia and abroad.

Meanwhile, one of Australia’s most senior trade officials says he isconfident the mining services sector can overcome a sharp drop inlocal orders by selling its expertise to overseas resources hotspots.Austrade chief executive Bruce Gosper, who took the top job at thegovernment-backed export promotion agency in February, citesAustrade as a potential model for deeper engagement with Australia’snorthern trading partners, given his agency has 60% of its resourcestrained on the region and 40% of its staff are fluent in Asian languages.

Despite the challenges of the high Australian dollar, and a drop in min-ing investment, Bruce Gosper says many mining services companiesappear upbeat about their ability to win new work in Africa and Asia. “Itis a much riskier environment at the moment, but they are innovativeand very optimistic about the services they can offer offshore, and notjust to the likes of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.” He says companies suchas Linfox and automotive parts suppliers were others proving that Aus-tralian firms could build successful operations in the region.

Bruce Gosper has also urged exporters not to ignore long-termtrading partner Japan, given its ability to provide links to other Asiancountries such as Indonesia.

The Australian mining suppliers directory (on following pages) con-tains the names, addresses and contact details of many Australianbased mining supply companies.

Steinert Group designs and manufactures a range of magnetic sorting equipment

from its Australian division.

METS SECTOR A Major Australian Exporter




Acquire Technology Solution Pty Ltd24 Moreau MewsApplecross, PerthWestern Australia, 6153 AustraliaAlan FenelonP: 61 8 9316 [email protected] YacopettiP: 61 8 9316 [email protected]

Acumine Pty LtdSuite 206 / 16 NIC BuildingAustralian Technology Park4 Cornwallis Street, EveleighNew South Wales2015 AustraliaEduardo Mario NebotProfessorP: 61 2 9351 [email protected]

Aggreko101 Woodlands DriveBraeside, Victoria3195 AustraliaZoie BurgessCommunications CoordinatorP: 61 3 9586 [email protected]

Aker Solutions Australia Pty LtdAker Wirth Australia, Level 255 Little Edward StreetBrisbane, Queensland4000 AustraliaChris WhiteGeneral MgrP: 61 7 3246 [email protected]

Allight Pty LtdWestern AustraliaAustraliaPatrick WalshManaging DirectorP: 61 8 9302 [email protected]

Alloy Steel Int’l42 Mercantile Way, MalagaWestern Australia

6090 AustraliaGene KosteckiCEOP: 61 8 9248 [email protected]

Alminco Pty LtdNew South Wales, AustraliaJohn LoughlinSales ExecutiveP: 61 2 4966 [email protected]

Alminco Pty LtdNew South WalesAustraliaRhys WilliamsSales & Marketing MgrP: 61 2 4255 [email protected]

ALS Ammtec6 MacAdam Place, BalcattaWestern Australia6021 AustraliaJohn PizimolasGlobal MgrP: 61 8 9344 [email protected]

AMC Consultants Pty LtdLevel 19, 114 William StreetMelbourne, Victoria3000 AustraliaP: 61 3 8601 [email protected]

AMEC MinprocLevel 14, 140 St Georges Terrace,PerthWestern Australia6000 AustraliaStuart RatcliffeGeneral Mgr DevelopmentP: 61 8 9347 [email protected]

Apollo Global2/708 Hampton Street, BrightonVictoria3186 AustraliaGenevieve Riviere

Managing DirectorP: 61 3 9592 [email protected]

Ausenco144 Montague RoadSouth BrisbaneQueensland, 4101 AustraliaP: 61 7 3169 [email protected]

Austin Engineering100 Chisholm CrescentKewdale, Western Australia6105 AustraliaPaul ClarkeGeneral Mgr, Perth OperationsP: 61 8 9334 [email protected]

Austin Engineering173 Cobalt Street, Carole ParkQueensland4300 AustraliaTony ReevesNational Marketing MgrP: 61 7 3271 [email protected]

Australian CoalPreparation SocietyNew South WalesAustraliaJulie-Anne HomanNational SecretariatP: 61 2 4926 [email protected]

B&H Consulting & Engineering Pty LtdNew South WalesAustraliaAlan BroomeManaging DirectorP: 61 2 9153 [email protected]

Bentley Systems Pty LtdLevel 8, 545 Queen StreetBrisbane, Queensland4000 AustraliaPieter NeethlingGlobal Solution Executive

Mining & MetalsP: 61 7 3270 [email protected]

Bentley Systems Pty LtdLevel 8, 545 Queen StreetBrisbaneQueensland4000 AustraliaNigel NewburyIndustry Solution Director, PlantP: 61 7 3270 [email protected]

BLP Training & Services Pty LtdQueensland, AustraliaDavid WoodmanManaging DirectorP: 61 7 3276 [email protected]

Bradken Resources Pty Ltd2 Maud Street, Mayfield WestNew South Wales2304 AustraliaP: 61 2 4941 [email protected]

Bucyrus AustraliaLevel 8, 369 Ann StreetBrisbane, Queensland4000 AustraliaClemence VilleMarketing & Comm. CoordinatorP: 61 7 3009 [email protected]

Bureau Veritas - AmdelSuite 4‚752 Blackburn Road ClaytonVictoria, 3168 AustraliaP: 61 3 9922 [email protected]

Byrnecut Offshore Pty LtdPO Box 205, CloverdaleWestern Australia6985 AustraliaDuncan BradfordGeneral MgrP: 61 8 9373 [email protected]

Australian Mining Suppliers Directory




Carmichael FisherLevel 8, 220 George StreetSydney, New South Wales2000 AustraliaMatthew MitchellDirectorP: 61 2 8247 [email protected]

Cavpower315 Main North Road(PO Box 84)Enfield SA 5085P: 08 8343 1600http://www.cavpower.com

CBC Australia Pty Ltd - Qld DivCBC Campbellfield Factory 2/43 Cooper StreetCampbellfield 3061 VICP: 03 9305 [email protected]

Chambers & Co. International LawyersLevel 41, ANZ Tower55 Collins StreetMelbourne VIC 3000P: + 61 3 9654 [email protected]

Champ Ventures Pty LtdLevel 4 Customs House31 Alfred Street, SydneyNew South Wales2000 AustraliaGareth BanksDirectorP: 61 2 8248 [email protected]

Chemical Plant & Engineering Pty Ltd63-65 Maffra StreetCoolaroo, Victoria3048 AustraliaFred LicciardelloSales Mgr - Chemical Plant & EngineeringP: 61 3 9309 [email protected] TaylorInt’l Business Development ExecutiveP: 61 3 9309 [email protected]

Clean TeQ Holdings Limited(ACN127 457 916)270-280 Hammond Road Dandenong South Vic 3175P: +61 3 9797 6753www.cleanteq.comSean McKinneyBD [email protected]

Coffey MiningLevel 1, 2 Melville StreetHobart, Tasmania7000 AustraliaDavid AtchisonGlobal Business Development MgrP: 61 3 6108 [email protected]

Confiance AustraliaQueensland, AustraliaJo WesthManaging DirectorP: 61 7 3871 [email protected]

Control Systems Technology Pty Ltd37 Stanley Street, PeakhurstNew South Wales2223 AustraliaIan BurrellManaging DirectorP: 61 2 9584 [email protected] SkeltonNational Sales MgrP: 61 2 9584 [email protected]

COOLON LED14 Austral PlaceHallam Vic 3803P: 61 3 8681 3640www.coolon.com.auBrett [email protected]

Corporate Protection AustraliaAustra River Port, Unit 11, 35 Paringa RoadMurrarie, Qld, 4172P: 1300 669 144www.cpagroup.com.auTracy HoganMarketing [email protected]

Crushing & Mining Equipment Pty Ltd (CME)P: 61 8 9437 1477Western AustraliaAustraliaMalcolm SligoBusiness Development MgrP: 61 8 9437 [email protected]

CQMS Razer11/58 Metroplex Ave, Murarrie Qld4172P: +61 7 3902 [email protected]

CSIROQueensland, AustraliaTim McLennanDirector, Business Development & CommercialisationP: 61 7 3327 [email protected] O'DowdTechnology & Innovation AdvisorP: 61 7 3327 4444stephen.o'[email protected]

DASSAULT SYSTÈMES GEOVIALevel 8, 190 St Georges TerracePerth, WA 6000P: 61 8 9420 1359 www.3ds.comKimberley [email protected]

DATAPOD99 Tennant StFyshwick ACT 2609P: 1300 724 405www.datapod.com.auGordon WatsonSales [email protected]

Datavis6/28 Stevenson PlaceNewcastle EastNew South Wales2300 AustraliaJohn HutchingsMining Geo-MechanicsP: 61 2 4925 [email protected]

David Brown Gear Industries13-19 Franklin Avenue, BulliNew South Wales 2516 AustraliaP: 61 2 4283 0300Tom CrossSales Director of Asia [email protected]

DGR GlobalGPO Box 5261, BrisbaneQueensland4001 AustraliaJessica SierInvestor RelationsP: 61 7 3303 [email protected]

DT Hiload Australia Pty Ltd435c Dundas Road, ForrestfieldWestern Australia6058 AustraliaSteve TurnerSales & Marketing MgrP: 61 8 9365 [email protected]

Duratray Int’lHead Office, PO Box 935BayswaterVictoria, 3153 AustraliaP: 61 3 8761 [email protected]

Earth Resource Technology ConsultantsSukiran A-1, Vijay NagarNew Pali Road, JodhpurRajasthan342 001 IndiaSushil BhandariDirectorP: 0291 [email protected]

Ecotech1492 Ferntree Gully RoadKnoxfield, Vic 3180P: 61 3 9730 7800www.ecotech.com.auEmma [email protected]




Electric Control ProductsWestern AustraliaAustraliaMarcus CoyleManaging DirectorP: 61 8 9249 [email protected]

Enware9 Endeavour RdCaringbah NSW 2229P: 61 2 8536 4090www.enware.comAdiono [email protected]

ESCO AUSTRALIA47 Trade StreetLytton, Qld 4178AustraliaP: 61 7 3505 1050F: 61 7 3505 1076www.escocorp.com

Export Finance and Insurance CorporationNew South WalesAustraliaRobert DraversDirector, SME OriginationP: 61 2 8273 [email protected]

FB RiceLevel 23, 44 Market StreetSydneyNew South Wales2000 AustraliaCharles BermanPartnerP: 61 2 8231 [email protected]

FLSmidth ABON Pty Ltd15-19 Marshall RoadAirport West, Victoria3042 Australiawww.abon.com.auStephen BondManaging DirectorP: 61 3 9338 [email protected]

FLSmidth Australia5 Comserv CloseWest Gosford NSW 2250P: 61 7 3121 2900

FOGMAKER AUSTRALIA9 Paddock PlaceRutherford NSW 2320P: +61 2 4932 3644firestormfp.com.auKieran McHattonSales [email protected]

Gekko Systems321 Learmonth Road, BallaratVictoria3350 AustraliaSandy GrayTechnical DirectorP: 61 3 5339 [email protected]

Genalysis Intertek15 Davison Street, MaddingtonWestern Australia6190 AustraliaJohn FlynnDirector, Business Development P: 61 8 9251 [email protected]

General Pump Company97 Gascoigne St, (PO Box 64)Kingswood NSW 2747P: 1300 662 787www.generalpumps.com.auTim [email protected]

GHDQueenslandAustraliaGavin BeckerBusiness Leader, Mining & MetalsP: 61 7 3316 [email protected] BoydBusiness Leader, [email protected]

GroundProbe8 Hockings StreetSouth BrisbaneQueensland4101 AustraliaLorraine ElsmoreGlobal Mgr, MarketingP: 61 7 3010 [email protected]

Hastings Deering98 Kerry Rd ArcherfieldQld 4108P: 13 12 28www.hastingsdeering.com.au

Haulmax Pty Ltd91 Terra Nova Drive, (PO Box 717)Wynyard, Tasmania7325 Australiawww.haulmax.comBob CalvertGlobal Sales & Marketing MgrP: 61 3 6442 [email protected]

Hedweld Group of Companies13 Russell Road, Mt ThorleyNew South Wales2330 AustraliaBlaine ScarrGroup MgrP: 61 2 6574 [email protected]

Hills Industries LimitedCnr Bridge and Cambria Roads,KeysboroughVictoria3173 AustraliaGrant SmithGeneral Mgr, Home, HardwareProductsP: 61 3 9238 [email protected]

Hofmann Engineering Pty Ltd3 Alice Street, BassendeanWestern Australia6054 AustraliaP: 61 8 9379 5522Erich HofmannManaging DirectorLeighton WhiteTechnical [email protected]

ICNPO Box 1882 Darwin,NT, 0801P: 61 8 8922 [email protected]

ICT Int’l23 McCarthy CrescentArmidaleNew South Wales

2350 AustraliaDr Peter CullDirectorP: 61 2 6772 [email protected]

Immersive Technologies4/40 Hasler Road, Osborne ParkWestern Australia6017 AustraliaPaul DavisExecutive Vice President Business DevelopmentP: 61 8 9347 [email protected]

Immersive Technologies4/40 Hasler Road, Osborne ParkWestern Australia6017 AustraliaPeter SalfingerCEOP: 61 8 9347 [email protected]

Inbye Mining Services55-57 Southgate Drive, MackayQueensland4740 AustraliaShane SummersGeneral Mgr OE ProductsP: 61 7 4944 [email protected]

Inbye Mining Services64 Gardiner Street, RutherfordNew South Wales2320 AustraliaRichard EveleighManaging DirectorP: 61 2 4932 [email protected]

Inflatable Packers1 Pitino Court,Osborne Park, WA 6017P: 61 8 9204 2448www.inflatable-packers.comHoward [email protected] AdamsDirector, IPI North AmericaP: 1 406 446 [email protected]




Intierra Resource IntelligenceLevel 1, 6 Thelma StreetWest PerthWestern Australia6005 AustraliaGreg KayCommercial DirectorP: 61 8 9486 [email protected]

Invetech495 Blackburn Road, Mt WaverleyVictoria3149 AustraliaP: 61 3 9211 7700Anthony LeleBusiness Development [email protected]

JacobsLevel 6, 600 St Kilda RdMelbourneVictoria3004 AustraliaMick DougeDirector, MetalsP: 61 3 98272 [email protected]

JDA John Davidson & AssociatesJetstream Business Park A3/5 Grevillea PlaceEagle Farm, Qld 4009P: 61 7 3120 [email protected]

JkTech Pty Ltd40 Isles Road, IndooroopillyQueensland4068 AustraliaDr Dan AlexanderCEOP: 61 7 3365 [email protected]

Jord Int’l Pty LtdNew South WalesAustraliaKevin BarberDivision Head, MineralsP: 61 2 8425 [email protected]

Jord Int’l Pty LtdNew South WalesAustralia

Allan WilsonBusiness Development MgrP: 61 2 8425 [email protected]

Jtagz OZ&EUPO BOX 1084 Yeppoon, Qld, 4703P: 61 7 4930 [email protected]

Keech Australia7/8 Avenue of AmericasNewingtonNew South Wales2127 Australiawww.keech.com.auDavid KeechDirector, Sales & MarketingP: 61 2 9648 [email protected]

Keech AustraliaOffice 5, 31A Cadell Street GoolwaSouth Australia5214 Australiawww.keech.com.auMark AdamsRegional & Export Sales P: 61 8 8555 [email protected]

Kimberley Metals LtdLevel 3, 2 Elizabeth PlazaNorth SydneyNew South Wales2060 AustraliaJim WallExecutive ChairmanP: 61 2 9927 [email protected]

Korvest Ltd580 Prospect Road, KilburnSouth Australia5084 AustraliaP: 61 8 8360 4500Chris HartwigGeneral Mgr [email protected]

Korvest Ltd580 Prospect Road, KilburnSouth Australia5084 AustraliaAlexander Kachellek


L&M Radiator Pty LtdCnr Kew and Kathleen Streets,WelshpoolWestern Australia6210 Australiawww.mesabi.com.auTerry GilchristP: 61 8 9361 [email protected]

LogiCammsPO Box 200, West Perth Western Australia6872 AustraliaGarry McGrechanIndustry Lead, Mining & MineralsP: 61 8 9365 [email protected]

MacMahon ServicesPO Box 542Enfield Plaza SA 5085P: 61 8 8203 [email protected]

Mancala19A Hampshire RoadGlen Waverley Vic 3150P: 03 8562 9400www.mancala.com.auTina [email protected]

MCLANAHAN16 Callistemon Close Warabrook NSW 2304P: 61 2 4924 8248www.mclanahan.comAngela Cox, [email protected]

Maintenance & Project Engineering Pty LtdPO Box 282, SingletonNew South Wales2330 AustraliaPeter BanksDirector & Business Development MgrP: 61 2 6571 [email protected]

Maintenance & Project Engineering Pty LtdPO Box 565, OxenfordQueensland4210 AustraliaMick MeissnerDirector & General MgrP: 61 7 5580 [email protected]

Maptek Pty Ltd63 Conyngham Steet, GlensideSouth Australia, 5065 AustraliaP: 61 8 8338 9222Steve SullivanSales Mgr [email protected]

MaxitoolPO Box 244, EdmontonQueensland4869 Australiawww.maxitool.com.auAnthony PaulMechanical DesignerP: 61 7 4045 [email protected]

MEO Australia LimitedLevel 17, 500 Collins StreetMelbourne, Victoria3000 AustraliaRobert GardCommercial MgrP: 61 3 8625 [email protected]

Micromine174 Hampden Road, NedlandsWestern Australia6009 AustraliaKevin FitzpatrickCFOP: 61 8 9423 [email protected] TuderManaging [email protected]

Mincom182 St Georges Terrace, PerthWestern Australia6000 AustraliaJames BalzarySales Director, MiningP: 61 8 9282 [email protected]




Mine Radio Systems - Pacific13 Pelorus Street, Redland BayQueensland4165 Australia

Mine Site Technologies25-27 Whiting Street,ArtarmonNew South Wales2064 AustraliaDenis KentBusiness Development MgrP: 61 2 9437 [email protected]

MineARC Systems274 Welshpool Road, WelshpoolWestern Australia6106 AustraliaGeoff WhittakerManaging DirectorP: 61 8 9333 [email protected]

Mineral Technologies11 Elysium Road, CarraraQueensland, 4211 AustraliaCarlos PenaGeneral Mgr Business DevelopmentP: 61 7 5569 [email protected]

Minova Australia Pty Ltd102 Albatross Road, NowraNew South Wales2541 AustraliaMatthew BerryCoal Business P: 61 2 4428 [email protected]

Minova Australia Pty Ltd8 Tarlington Place, SmithfieldNew South Wales2164 AustraliaGreg WarrenGeneral MgrP: 61 2 8788 [email protected]

MitrefinchUnit 47, 11-21 Underwood RoadHomebush NSW 2140P: 61 2 8762 7888www.mitrefinch.com.auJamie [email protected]

MPEPO Box 282Singleton NSW 2330P: 61 2 65711537www.mpe.com.auAshleigh Banks, [email protected]

Nepean Group23 Graham Hill Road, NarellanNew South Wales2567 AustraliaChristopher MooneyPrincipal Marketing ExecutiveP: 61 2 4648 [email protected]

New Macey Pty LtdUnit 3/19 Enterprise DriveTomago NSW 2322P: 61 2 4964-9379www.newmacey.com.au

Nov Mono338-348 Lower Dandenong RoadMordiallocVictoria3195 AustraliaMaurice CalderonMarketing MgrP: 61 3 9580 [email protected]

Nov Mono338-348 Lower Dandenong RoadMordiallocVictoria3195 AustraliaNick McNamaraIndustrial Product MgrP: 61 3 9580 [email protected]

ONEKEY RESOURCESPO Box 151New Farm, QLD, 4005P: 1300 008 [email protected]

One SteelLocked Bag 3050, ArtarmonNew South Wales1570 AustraliaIan FinlayMarket Development MgrP: 61 2 8424 [email protected]

Oniqua Enterprise Analytics7900 E. Union Avenue, Suite 920Denver, Colorado80237 USAJoan BrownOffice MgrP: 1 303 952 [email protected]

Oniqua Enterprise AnalyticsPO Box 1119, MiltonQueensland4064 AustraliaSarah RobertsExecutive AssistantP: 61 7 3369 [email protected]

Ophir PartnersLevel 3, 66 Hunter StreetSydneyNew South Wales2000 AustraliaBruce FultonManaging DirectorP: 61 2 8332 [email protected]

OptiroPO Box 1646, West Perth Western Australia6872 AustraliaIan GlackenDirectorP: 61 8 9215 [email protected] [email protected]

ORE RESEARCH & EXPLORATION37A Hosie SteetBayswater North, Vic 3153P: 61 3 9729 0333www.ore.com.auCraig HamlynTechnical [email protected]

OrelogyUnit 1, Bluenote Building162 Colin Street, West PerthWestern Australia6005 AustraliaMark BrightBusiness Development AnalystSteve Craig


Orica Mining ServicesPO Box 196, Kurri KurriNew South Wales2327 AustraliaHolly CooperMarketing CommunicationsAssistantP: 61 2 4939 [email protected]

P&H MinePro Services AustralasiaLevel 3, Building 5Gateway Office Park747 Lytton RdMurarrie, Queensland4172 AustraliaRod ClarkeOEM Capital Sales MgrP: 61 7 3240 [email protected]

P&H MinePro Services AustralasiaLevel 3, Building 5Gateway Office Park747 Lytton Rd, MurarrieQueensland, 4172 AustraliaBernie GuilleminCCC Product MgrP: 61 7 3240 [email protected]

Phillips Ormonde FitzpatrickLevel 23, 367 Collins StreetMelbourne Victoria3000 AustraliaEdwin PattersonPartnerP: 61 3 9614 1944 [email protected]

Prendergast Fasteners Pty Ltd6 Spall Street, CarraraQueensland4211 AustraliaNat PrendergastMgr - Western AustraliaP: 61 7 5530 [email protected]




PRIORITY PEOPLE SOLUTIONSSuites 12A & 13A 51/53 Kewdale RoadWelshpool, WA 6106P: 61 417 996 580www.ppspl.com.auAndrew [email protected]

Pronto Software20 Lakeside DveBurwood East, Vic, 3151P: 61 3 9887 7770www.pronto.netAlbert LauReseller Channel [email protected]

QMASTOR Limited22 Frith StreetMayfield WestNew South Wales2304 AustraliaTrent BagnallManaging DirectorSteve MaxwellP: 61 2 4908 [email protected]

Qld Industries53 Success St Acacia RidgeQLD 4110P: 61 7 3275 [email protected]

Quality Machine Tools Pty Ltd91-93 Malcolm Road, BraesideVictoria, 3195 AustraliaRam ChandraDirectorP: 61 3 9587 [email protected]

Quarry Mining & Construction Equipment Pty Ltd9/14 Yangan DriveBeresfieldNew South Wales2322 AustraliaKari ArmitageP: 61 2 4966 [email protected]

Quarry Mining & Construction Equip-ment Pty Ltd9/16 Transport AvenuePaget, Queensland4740 AustraliaKevin RoyalP: 61 7 4998 [email protected]

RavensgateLevel 3, 44 Parliament PlaceWest Perth, WA 6872P: 61 8 9226 3606www.ravensgate.com.au

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RCR Tomlinson LtdLevel 1The Gateway Business Complex173 Davy Street, BooragoonWestern Australia6154 AustraliaGeoffrey CurtisRCR ResourcesSales & Marketing MgrP: 61 8 9355 [email protected] Dalgleish, CEOP: 61 8 9355 [email protected]

Redpath Australia Pty Ltd63 Lavarack AvenueEaglefarm Qld 04009P: 61 7 3868 5000www.redpathmining.com.auRhiannon [email protected]

Remote Control Technologies Pty LtdPO Box 291, Cloverdale WA, 6985 AustraliaCraig BuchananSales & Marketing MgrP: 61 8 9353 [email protected]

Replacement Inflatable Packers & Elements Pty Ltd29 Wheeler St, Belmont Western Australia6104 AustraliaP: 61 8 9475 0700John MissonManaging [email protected]

Rock Australia Mining & Civil Pty Ltd5 Riversdale Street, WelshpoolWestern Australia6106 AustraliaMichael MooreOperations MgrP: 61 8 9472 [email protected]

Rock Australia Mining & Civil Pty LtdUnit 1, 12 Commerce CircuitYatala, Queensland4207 AustraliaCraig HallBusiness Development MgrP: 61 7 3442 [email protected]

Ronson Gears Pty Ltd18 Teton Court, HighettVictoria, 3190 Australia

P: 61 3 9555 9822Gordon New Managing [email protected] Gavin New Sales & Marketing P: 61 3 9555 [email protected]

RUD AustraliaPO Box 1560Browns Plains BCQld 4118P: +61 7 3809 1300www.rud.com/en-au/[email protected]

Runge LtdGPO Box 2774Brisbane, Queensland4000 AustraliaCathy HalpinExecutive PAP: 61 7 3100 [email protected]

Runge LtdPO Box H170, SydneyNew South Wales2000 AustraliaDaphne KavassilasGlobal Marketing MgrP: 61 2 8248 [email protected]

Russell Mineral Equipment149 Hursley Road, Toowoomba Queensland4350 AustraliaBrett MorganP: 61 7 4698 [email protected]

SAFEmine Technology(Australia) Pty Ltd Unit 4 / 59 Riverside PlaceMorningside Qld4170 AustraliaP: 61 7 3399 [email protected]

Salva Resources Pty LtdLevel 11, 82 Eagle StreetBrisbane, Queensland4000 AustraliaP: 61 7 3211 9911www.salvaresources.com.auTodd WildBusiness Development [email protected]

Sandvik Mining & Construction AustraliaLevel 150 McDougall Street, Milton Qld, 4064 AustraliaKate BillsMarketing & Communications Administrator

P: 61 7 3858 [email protected] LacknerVP MarketingP: 61 7 3858 [email protected]

Scanalyse Pty LtdPO Box 1201, Bentley DCWestern Australia6983 AustraliaPeter ClarkeCEOP: 61 8 9355 [email protected]

Scantech Int’l Pty LtdUnit 14, 2994 Logan RoadUnderwoodQueensland4119 AustraliaHenry KurthGeneral Mgr MarketingP: 61 7 3710 [email protected]

SedgmanP.O. Box 1801, Milton BCQueensland4064 AustraliaRon ScottGeneral Mgr, Client RelationshipsP: 61 7 3514 [email protected]

SedgmanIndonesiaPeter LongGeneral Mgr, Asia RegionP: 86 10 8588 [email protected]

SedgmanSouth AfricaDirk SchenkGeneral Mgr, South AfricaP: 27 12 661 [email protected]

Siemens Australila885 Mountain HighwayBayswater, Victoria3153 AustraliaP: 61 3 9721 [email protected]

Sinclair Knight Merz11th Floor, Durack Centre263 Adelaide Terrace, PerthWestern Australia6000 AustraliaPhil BeddoesWestern Region MgrP: 61 8 9469 [email protected]




Sinclair Knight MerzCnr Cordelia & Russell Streets,South BrisbaneQueensland4101 AustraliaTony OwenEastern Region MgrMining & MetalsP: 61 7 3026 [email protected]

Snowden87 Colin Street, West PerthWestern Australia6005 AustraliaBen WorstBusiness Development MgrP: 61 8 9213 [email protected]

Solarone64 Park RoadMiddle ParkVic 3206 AustraliaP: 61 3 9534 [email protected]

SRA Information TechnologyUnit 24, 23 Plain StreetEast Perth, Western Australia6004 AustraliaJim RoweMgr Business DevelopmentP: 61 8 8995 [email protected]

SRS RELINEPO Box 2777,Geraldton, WA 6531P: 61 8 9926 1197www.srs.reline.com.auDougall [email protected]

Steinert Australia Pty Ltd14 Longstaff Road, BayswaterVictoria3153 AustraliaThomas HudecSales EngineerP: 61 3 8720 [email protected]

Steinert Australia Pty Ltd14 Longstaff Road, BayswaterVictoria3153 AustraliaDavid ArmstrongManaging DirectorP: 61 3 8720 [email protected]

StrataCrete Pty LtdQueenslandAustraliaAlbert LoncaricDirectorP: 61 7 3206 [email protected]

Sykes Group Pty LtdPO Box 606, CardiffNew South Wales2285 AustraliaChris O'Brien, Group Product MgrP: 61 2 4954 [email protected]

The Asset PartnershipSuite 1, 2 Culdees RoadBurwoodNew South Wales2136 AustraliaStuart HyltonBusiness Improvement MgrP: 61 2 9715 [email protected]

Thermo Gamma-Metrics Pty Ltd (operating as Thermo Fisher Scientific)18 Butler Boulevard, BurbridgeBusiness Park, Adelaide AirportSouth Australia, 5950 Australiawww.thermoscientific.comScott FergusonSales Mgr Int’lP: 61 8 8208 [email protected] SennettGlobal Sales & Marketing MgrP: 61 8 8208 [email protected]

ThiessLevel 5, 179 Grey StreetSouth Bank Qld 4101P: 61 7 3002 9000www.thiess.com/mining

Transmin33-35 Denninup Way Malaga, Perth WA 6090Phil GilbertGeneral Sales & Marketing ManagerP: 61 6 9270 [email protected]

TME Group Pty Ltd86 Flores Road, GeraldtonWestern Australia6530 AustraliaPaul AritiGeneral Mgr, Mine ServicesP: 61 8 9921 [email protected]

TME Group Pty LtdUnit 4, 471 Victoria Road, MalagaWestern Australia, 6090 AustraliaAdrian SommervilleBusiness Development Mgr,Mine ServicesP: 61 8 9249 [email protected]

TOMRA Sorting1/12 Yatala RoadMt. Kuring-GaiNew South Wales 2080P: 61 2 9457 8640www.tomrasorting.com/[email protected]

Tsubaki Australia95-101 Silverwater RoadSilverwater NSW 2128P: 61 2 9704 [email protected]

TUNRA Bulk SolidsNewcastle Institute for Energy andResources (NIER),The University of NewcastleOff Vale StreetShortland NSW 2307, AustraliaP: 61 2 4033 [email protected]

Vermeer (Australia)30 Brooklyn Ct, CampbellfieldP: 61 3 9359 1822 www.vermeer.com.au

Veyance Belting Pty LtdLevel 3, 470 Church StreetNorth ParramattaNew South Wales2151 Australiawww.goodyearep.comCon MichaelsDirector Sales & Marketing Asia PacificP: 61 2 8839 [email protected]

Veyance Belting Pty LtdSuite 3, 19 Bishop StreetJolimont, Western Australia6014 Australiawww.goodyearep.comBarry PlummerNational Contracts MgrP: 61 8 9387 [email protected]

Wear Applications & Management Services12 Wickham Street, NewcastleNew South Wales2293 AustraliaRon BellTechnical Support MgrP: 61 2 4962 [email protected] GrovesServices Support MgrP: 61 2 4962 [email protected]

WEIR MINERALS AUSTRALIA86 Fairbank RoadClayton South, Vic 3169P: 61 3 9501 8486www.weirminerals.comMarielle [email protected]

WesTrac NSW1 Crescent Street, HolroydNSW 2142P: 61 2 9840 4600www.westrac.com.au


FOR more than 140 years, innovation has been a tradition at WeirMinerals, a leading supplier to the global mining industry that deliv-ers end-to-end solutions for all mining, transportation, milling, pro-cessing and wastewater management activities.

At Weir Minerals, Material Matters™. The basic premise of Mate-rial Matters is ‘you get more out of a Weir Minerals product because

of its relentless commitment to R&D resulting in superior products,enhanced output and reliability, which improve financial outcomes’.

The cost of operating a mine has steadily increased in the last 20years. According to recent reports, the cost of installing and oper-ating a new coal mine has increased nearly three-fold in the last fewyears. The story is nearly the same around the globe and no one an-ticipates any relief in the near future. As these pressures continue tobuild on the mining industry, mine operators are investing in prod-ucts that are higher quality and last significantly longer, while im-proving safety for employees and the surrounding environment.

Weir Minerals is devoted to the newest and most advanced tech-nologies, constantly striving to extend product performance and re-duce cost. This results in products that simply outwork and outlastanything in the field. The mining industry relies on Weir Minerals forquality and innovative products and services.

Weir Minerals says its’ commitment to the mining industry runsdeep because the company focuses on listening to customers.The company’s personnel are in mining operations around theworld on a daily basis, rolling up their sleeves and working onequipment, talking with mine operators and learning about thepressures they face.

As a leading supplier to the global mining industry, Weir Mineralsis committed to doing its part to understand the global economyand building products that improve mining efficiency, which ulti-mately improve the bottom line.

For example, The Linatex® Wear Indicator System transmits andreceives messages, providing a revolutionary early warning systemto mine operators. This system is superior to competitors’ modelsbecause it detects more than just a break in the wire; it measuresa change in resistance for more accurate results. The system savestime, money and lives by notifying operators when a pipe needs tobe replaced or fixed.

The development of ‘smart’ rubber linings is just one of the manytechnologies Weir Minerals is able to develop in order to improvemining profitability.



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Worley ParsonsLevel 7, OV1 Building250 St Georges Terrace, PerthWestern Australia6000 AustraliaTom Revy, Development DirectorMinerals & MetalsP: 61 8 9278 [email protected]

Xstract Mining ConsultantsLevel 1, 1110 Hay StreetWest PerthWestern Australia6872 AustraliaMark MurphyGeneral ManagerPerthP: 61 8 9327 [email protected]

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COOLON LED Lighting is introducing its unique range of lightingproducts to the mining industry in Asia through the appointment of PTPAZ as its Indonesian-based distributor. It is the next step in an im-pressive growth story for Coolon, which helps light up Australia’s min-ing industry and is now lighting up mines around the world.

Coolon’s industrial LED lighting products are developed and man-ufactured in Australia, at a modern state-of-the-art Melbourne-basedplant to meet the highest of international standards.

LED technology has the potential to bring great benefits to most light-ing applications, offering reliability, energy savings and quality of light.However, LEDs are very sensitive to many environmental conditions,and can easily be irreversibly damaged by overheating, overpowering

and chemical contaminations. These are all typical conditions found inmining applications. Mining is amongst the harshest and most extremeenvironments on Earth, which means creating an LED-based lightingproduct for the mining industry is extremely challenging.

The main difference between Coolon and competitors is thatCoolon’s R&D brings decades of the highest electronics experience.LEDs are completely different to light bulbs because they are an elec-tronic component and have to be treated the same way. Most ofCoolon’s competitors do not have electronics emphasis and try toadopt LEDs into their conventional lighting fixtures, which createsmore capacity for failure.

Monster mining machines are extremely harsh and nothing surviveson them unless it was specifically engineered to do so. Inferior lightfittings barely last a week - vibration cracks brackets and rips threads

off bolts; flying rocks smash lenses and disfigure metal bodies; powerspikes damage electronics inside; improperly engineered fittings in-terfere with modern navigation and communication equipment; andwater and harsh chemicals find their way through every gap in therubber seal and destroy anything that has survived all other elements.

This is where Coolon’s products are different - they are engineeredfrom ground up, to be indestructible LED luminaires and to withstandcontinuous abuse through their entire life. Every inch of the product,every component, every bend and every slot is there to serve the pur-pose, to make the product better than any other alternative.

Coolon’s product development manager Andrew Orkin says Coolonworks closely together with its mining customers, to study how the

products behave in their envi-ronments, and uses thisknowledge to improve theproducts quickly and effi-ciently. All Coolon productsundergo multiple stages of rig-orous testing during develop-ment and manufacture, with100% in production testingbefore leaving the factory.

“The mining industry wantsto minimize maintenance tocreate maximum productivity.If operators change their ex-isting lighting to LED, they ex-pect this product to last,otherwise it’s just a completewaste of money. This is wherethe Coolon brand has takenyears to build its name. Wedon’t try to compete on priceor by taking shortcuts; westay in front by adopting newtechnology and improving ourproduct, which means our

competitors are always trying tocatch up. What they are putting out today, we did two years ago andwe strive to stay that far in front,” he says.

Last year, the rapid growth was recognized with Coolon namednumber 32 among BRW’s top 100 Australian fastest growing com-panies and Coolon’s industrial LED lighting products have received anumber of prestigious industry awards.

Coolon sales manager Brett Cox says, “After attending a miningshow in South America in partnership with Austrade we saw oppor-tunities and established our sales in Chile. We have done a similarthing in Indonesia, attending Austrade’s Ozmine 2013 event inJakarta and are now linking with a distributor to take our productsinto Asia. Our newly appointed distributor, PT PAZ, has 14 branchesfrom Kazakhstan to Papua New Guinea, and is promising to launchour products into the new and emerging Asian mining markets.”

Coolon to light up Asia’s mining industry

Coolon LED lights fitted to a Caterpillar D10.




FOGMAKER Australia, which provides fire and water-mist solutions tothe mining, commercial, civil, marine and industrial sectors in Aus-tralia and New Zealand, is expanding into Asia and intends estab-lishing operations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Thecompany’s mainstay is the Fogmaker AFFF system, a fire suppres-sion solution for mining and construction machinery, which is smaller,lighter and more compact than conventional foam fire systems, andcan take up as little space as a 9kg portable extinguisher.

Fogmaker is a registered trademark for fire suppression systemsintended for extinguishing of fires in engine bays or other semi-closedspaces. The unique extinguishing effect with cold water fog not onlycools down the temperature very rapidly and effectively, but alsoforces out the air, so that the oxygen content is reduced. Extinguish-ing effectiveness increases when the extinguishing fluid is vaporizedmeeting the hot surfaces in the engine compartment.

The Fogmaker system can be installed at any angle providing nu-merous options, especially when space is at a premium. As the sys-tem, which is one-tenth the size of a conventional system, can beinstalled horizontally, it does not obstruct the operators view. This isalso an important security factor where the system is installed in ve-hicles exposed to the risk of roll over.

As water-mist is a very efficient technology, the result is a longer dis-charge period than conventional systems. Due to the compact size ofthe system there is no need for special bracketing or reinforcing. Theagent tank is anodized, high pressure and corrosion protected forharsh environments, with the distribution network primarily stainlesssteel with brass nozzles. Options for activation include automated(pneumatic activation), delayed, manual or a combination of all.

The Fogmaker suppression system comes in a range of agent tanksizes and can be fitted on graders, loaders, dozers, underground ma-chines, 4x4s, buses, generators, compressors, cranes, trains, forestrymachines, in fact most machinery with a semi-enclosed space. In most

cases there is no need for specialized brackets or fabrication.Due to noise control and environmental obligations, engine compart-

ments are being built with sound and suppression enclosures. Noisecontrol has meant engine compartments are more frequently being en-closed with sound suppression. In turn, engine compartments are get-ting hotter and this is where the AFFF Mist System works best.

The Fogmaker product, which has been available since 1996, hasmore than 80% of the public transport market in Australia, Europe andIreland. The technology is widely used in various applications in Europeand there have been more than 40,000 systems installed worldwide.

A combination of Swedish and German design, the innovative prod-uct has been well accepted through numerous markets and has beenintroduced to the Asia Pacific by Fogmaker Australia. It has been em-braced by the mining sector with many mines and contractors choos-ing Fogmaker as their primary product of choice.

Growth of the product resulted in Fogmaker Australia being classedas one of the Business Review Weekly’s ‘fastest growing companies’in Australia in 2010.

Fogmaker Australia to expand into Asia

DATAPOD is a leading manufacturer of modular Data Centre 2.0technology and associated infrastructure products, services and sup-port. The Datapod data centre system is scalable, energy efficientand site-upgradeable, enabling resource sites and other organiza-tions to ‘click on’ extra capacity as their needs grow.

The Datapod approach provides unrivalled levels of flexibility, se-curity and capital cost savings through right-sizing. The Datapod Sys-tem significantly reduces capital cost, mitigates construction projectrisk and reduces the environmental impact of data centre facilities.

The international award-winning and patented Datapod design ispre-manufactured and factory tested for rapid deployment indoorsor out and capable of being deployed in the most remote and haz-ardous locations.

In May Datapod began deploying its first export to Sweden. Dat-apod began the manufacture of the Data Centre 2.0 (DC2) modu-lar data centre technology two months earlier and with final FactoryAcceptance Testing (FAT) completed, it was deconstructed andreadied for export this. It is the first export to Sweden for Datapodand if commercial projections are correct this will be the tip of theIceberg for the company.

Datapod managing director Scott Carr says, “This is a wonder-ful result for our business and is the first step into the Europeanmarket. We are global market leaders in DC2 technology and havegained significant industry acceptance over the last two years. Thiswill translate into significant growth for our business over the shortto medium period.”

Innovative data centre manufacturer

The Fogmaker fire suppression system can be installed on most machinery used

in mining and is much more compact than conventional foam fire systems.




MINING services and environmental solutions company Clean TeQaims to export its unique technology from Australia to the world’smining industry with South East Asia as a stepping stone. Its contin-uous ion exchange and resin processes represent the future in hy-drometallurgy, providing mining clients with higher recoveries, lowercosts and reduced environmental impact.

Clean TeQ was founded in 1989 to provide air pollution control so-lutions using biological-based processes. This was mainly in the mu-nicipal industry, where it is still very active today and is probably theleading biological air treatment company in Australia. Over more than20 years, Clean TeQ has invested in research and development toexpand and develop its technology, which includes separation andpurification technologies for water and metals recovery.

In 2000 Clean TeQ acquired the worldwide exclusive licence, out-side the former Soviet Union, from the All Russian Research Instituteof Chemical Technology, for their resin technology to extract, in con-centrate form, purified metals, which had been developed over a pe-riod of 40 years. From this, Clean TeQ has been developing itsClean-iX® continuous counter-current ion exchange platform for met-als recovery and water treatment. Clean TeQ general manager –Water & Mining John Carr says initially it was predominantly used foruranium and gold recovery but Clean TeQ has further developed it, inconjunction with BHP Billiton, for nickel and cobalt recovery, is doingwork out of Japan for scandium and other high value metal recoveryfrom waste streams, and has done rare earths and gold recovery.

“There are a lot of different applications for the technology. It is veryadaptive and overcomes many issues facing current technologies.”

An innovation unique to Clean TeQ is the adaptation of Clean-iX®to industrial water treatment. “We took the base technology,” JohnCarr says, “and have developed it to solve the growing water issuesaround the world, such as treatment of complex and high scalingwater. We are focusing on water treatment for ground and surfacewater, coal seam gas (CSG), oil and gas industries, and mine watertreatment, specifically targeting those areas where conventional tech-nology won’t work.

“While we have competitors who offer reverse osmosis solutions towater issues, our technology is also complementary to reverse osmosisand can improve its performance. Our technology gives us the oppor-tunity to treat waters that other conventional systems just cannot treat.Complicated and complex waters are our bread and butter,” he adds.

“At the start of last year we formed a JV with Nippon Gas, called As-sociated Water, and its primary aim is to focus on the supply of our watertreatment systems to the CSG industry. Clean TeQ is heavily focused onmine water treatment and we are developing applications to use the tech-nology for acid mine drainage, sulphate removal, metals removal – all thekey issues stopping mines from using water in their process or discharg-ing water into the environment. This has implications for Australia andaround the world, particularly in South East Asia where there are issueswith discharge of sulphates and other contaminants.”

John Carr says Clean TeQ has had success in CSG but other min-ing applications will follow and support is starting toemerge in Australia. Most opportunities to apply the tech-nology are coming from abroad, and in a variety of re-sources, including copper-gold, iron ore, uranium andcoal. “We are at the point where we can take this tech-nology to mines around the world and this is likely to startin South East Asia where there has been considerable,and growing, interest.

Clean TeQ is growing and this has been aided by a recentinvestment by global mining and technology-related per-sonality Robert Friedland who has acquired unsecured con-vertible notes to a value of about Aus$1.84 million, which iffully converted to ordinary shares, represent an 11.35% in-terest in the company. He says, “This is a company with anoperating track record, a strong focus on R&D and a provencapability of developing and commercializing innovative pro-prietary technologies. Clean TeQ’s expertise in separationand purification technologies for water treatment and metalsrecovery makes it a leading innovator of technologies thathave real importance for our future.”

Of the investment, Clean TeQ’s CEO Peter Vogt says,“He has shown an amazing propensity over his career toidentify early-stage technology opportunities and has beenprepared to fund their growth. We look forward to workingwith Mr Friedland and utilizing his expertise to make CleanTeQ one of the leading companies in the world providingsustainable environmental technology solutions.”

Cleaner mining with Clean TeQ solutions

The DeSALx plant is an example of Clean TeQ’s innovative environmental solutions and

mining services technology.




TENOVA Mining and Minerals Projects Australia (TMMPA) is set tobenefit from the increasing South East Asian emphasis to add valueto mineral resource riches by constructing processing facilities. Gov-ernments in countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippinesare encouraging value adding rather than just shipping out bulk quan-tities of raw materials and this is creating new business for Tenova’sAustralian-based divisions.

In Australia Tenova has three divisions – TMMPA, formerly BatemanProjects, in Perth, Tenova TAKRAF in Brisbane and Tenova Delkor inSydney with the latter two being OEM companies. Tenova TAKRAF hasbeen established for about 6 years while the other two have come underTenova’s banner in the past 12 months. TMMPA carries out front-endwork for feasibility studies leading into basic design or feed design work,which means Tenova offers mining companies a complete package asthey move from advanced exploration to development and mining.

TMMPA serves Tenova’s front-end work needs on all continents –Australia, Asia and Africa, Europe in association with the Russian of-fice, in India through an office there, in North America through a Den-ver office and in South America. TMMPA’s managing director RonVittorio says, “We also have design capability and do back-end, de-tailed design work out of our Indian, German, Italian, US or SouthAfrican offices. After the front-end work, Tenova also procures, sup-plies, fabricates and ensures quality control for the shops we haveand other shops we work in.

“As an example for a recent project we did the front-end work inAustralia, back-end work out of Germany and India, fabrication out ofsupply offices in China and Germany, and quality assurance out ofGermany, India and China. It’s the way we operate and our majorcompetitors are doing similar things.”

Asia has been a market for all Tenova group companies for morethan 30 years, although some have been stronger than others. RonVittorio says, “China and India are big markets and Tenova has facil-

ities and people there, including more than 1000 staff in India, butwhat is happening now is that resource-rich countries such as In-donesia and the Philippines require process plant technology in linewith the value-added path they are following.

“We see fantastic growth opportunities in South East Asia. Thereare strong coal industries in Indonesia and the Philippines, particularlyin lignite which needs more processing, as well as in cement andlimestone. They have been good markets for Tenova and we seegrowth in all of them. There’s also gold and copper throughout the re-gion. At TMMPA we’re front-ending the design, the process plant,” hesays, “then our other companies come in with TAKRAF in materialshandling for the stockyard and the port, and Delkor runs with us onthe wet separation for the process plant.

As well as value-adding, he says another change in South East Asiais continuous mining. “Most coal operators in the region use the tra-ditional truck and shovel method but owing to the rising cost of fuel,labour, tyres, trucks, etc, we are seeing the emergence of continuousmining, which is what we do – overland conveyors, mechanizedequipment, de-manning, and the like.”

Another change in the mining industry at a more global level and onebrought about by current economic conditions is the shift in emphasisfrom capex to opex, which Ron Vittorio says will also benefit Tenovaand its OEM suppliers owing to the company’s emphasis on designand plant improvements incorporating technological advances. Alsowith costs in mind, he says Tenova is finding that procurement capabilityat its Asian offices and with people it works with in Asia is bringing costadvantages into Australia and its operations around the world.

While staying ahead of new mining trends is important, Ron Vittoriosays, “Tenova’s point of differentiation is that while we have our own fab-rication facilities and quality assurance people, we are not beholding tosuppliers who in the current marketplace are fairly small fish in a big pondand who can hold you to ransom in terms of program and cost.”

Tenova to benefit from value-adding in minerals

Tenova Mining and Minerals Projects Australia carries out front-end work for feasibility studies leading into basic design or feed design work.




STEINERT Group’s Australian division serves the mining industryin Australia through its production facilities in Melbourne and islooking to increase its presence in South East Asia’s burgeoningmining sector. The company’s wet drums are designed and man-ufactured out of Melbourne along with associated magnetic andelectro-magnetic equipment.

The group has two streams of mining equipment – magnets andsensor sorters – with the former produced in Melbourne while thesensor sorting stream emanates from Germany. The latter, involv-ing use of x-ray and induction-type sensors to sort and separatematerials, is quite new to the mining industry, which according toSTEINERT’s managing director – Australia and South East Asia,David Armstrong, is typical of the German-founded group’s stronginnovation focus.

He says another example is STEINERT’s development of a conceptto containerize large machinery by placing it into three containers – a40-footer and two 20-footers. It can be transported easily betweenmine sites and essentially just plugged in so that sorting and sepa-rating technology can be tested on site. “The technology is from Ger-many but we have a 1-metre wide X-Ray test machine in Australiawhich has recently been trialled successfully at a tungsten mine inQueensland, and has returned to Melbourne for maintenance beforegoing to another mine.

“The Australian division adds value to the group and provides serv-ice through a strong after-sales team complete with service engineerswho can visit mine sites for Wet drum separator (WDS) and Over-head suspension magnet audits. As part of our sales strategy wehave rolled out a program whereby we intend to make contact withevery user of the above equipment in Australia to inform them of ouraudit service, which involves our engineers doing an audit of ma-

chinery to determine bottlenecks, process improvements, etc. Thishas only involved coal so far but we intend moving into iron ore andother minerals requiring separation.”

STEINERT established a presence in Australia through acquisitionof Sturton-Gill Magnetics about eight years ago with the group in-tending the division to become a centre of competence and exportinto the world’s other mining regions. “We do however, have a teamdesigning and engineering wet drums and other mining technology,and transferring the IP to factories in the USA, Brazil and South Africafor fabrication and manufacture,” David Armstrong says.

Earlier this year, STEINERT Australia, which has responsibility forAsia Pacific, opened a Singapore satellite office to help develop thebusiness. The group’s Asian presence is strongest in Indonesia, thePhilippines and Vietnam, and primarily for coal but also other miner-als needing separation. “Until recently in this region separation hasbeen largely manual,” he says, “but customers are becoming inter-ested in mechanized separation and its efficiencies. With the expenseof providing this technology, we see that containerized technologycan play a major role.

“Mobility of heavy equipment is a problem and a more portable so-lution, such as containerization, can help overcome it. The aim is tomake equipment truly mobile so it can be put on the back of a truckand taken to mine sites almost anywhere then operated quickly andsafely. The technology is relevant in these times when mines are look-ing at cost effective ways to improve productivity. By the end of 2013we hope to have two containerized test machines in the Asia Pacificas there are benefits in using them in South East Asia.”

David Armstrong has been in the role since mid-March and says hevery much values STEINERT’s emphasis on technology as well as beinga privately-owned company in existence for almost 125 years along,

with the culture that goes with this. “Ex-pectations are realistic and not having acorporate culture, they are not focusedprimarily on the monthly P&L return andhave a medium to longer term view.”

He is an Irish-born mechanical engineerwho, after graduating from university inDublin, spent five years as a sales engi-neer in Japan before spending 18 yearsat Swiss-owned Sulzer, a global com-pany involved in supply of equipment intothe petroleum and mining industries. “Thelast 12 years I was managing director ofSulzer’s Australian/New Zealand opera-tion and lived in Singapore for three yearswhere I had the added role of lookingafter South East Asia.

“STEINERT has given me an opportu-nity to continue my career in a companylooking at long-term, engineered solu-tions, and one that is technically-orien-tated and customer-focused,” he says.

STEINERT has strong Asia Pacific focus

The STEINERT X-Ray test machine has been trialled at a tungsten mine in Queensland.




MINING productivity and training firm One Key Resources haslaunched a range of animated training video programs for use in theinternational open cut mining industry. The company has releasedthe first of a series of videos which immerse participants in the min-ing environment and provide detailed information and familiarizationwith equipment and procedures.

BHP Billiton is running the training program in its iron ore mines inWestern Australia and now One Key has the technology available inany language internationally.

“This was a first in the Australian mining industry and an innovativetraining solution for excavator and dump truck operators,” says OneKey Resources’ managing director Grant Wechsel. “Using high qualityanimation, the video trains operators on the sequence of mining in-cluding exactly where the excavator should dig to where the truck needsto be parked to take its load. Australia is a leader in mining technologyand one of the most productive and efficient end-users of large miningequipment. By developing this technology in Australia in collaborationwith large mining houses we have been able to increase operatingmines’ efficiency, standardize processes, move more material and ulti-mately make more money for our clients. The progression to then takethis technology internationally is a natural step for us.”

The animated videos are an ideal tool for developing nations with lit-eracy or language issues as they are visual with voice over and onscreen text available in multiple languages which reach a greaternumber of staff learning styles. This not only increases productionand the skill set of machine operators but highlights preventative

maintenance and safety issues, potentially saving large amounts ofmoney in equipment damage or incidents.

Grant Wechsel says interest in Asia is high so far with a number or cur-rent proposals in place to assist coal, gold and other open cut mines.There are a number of modules available, all fully customizable to indi-vidual mine sites, including excavator, shovel, dozer, grader, water cartand haul truck. “All online modules are supported by our network ofspecialist proficiency trainers working on site implementing the stan-dards from the animated videos out in the field. We have also devel-oped our own technology that captures results and information onindividual operators in the field and stores the data online, such as in-dividual operator report cards and analysis of cycle times and dig rates.”

The videos were developed by One Key Resources director AndyHolder in Brisbane with a team of the company’s in-house anima-tors. It is hosted online and can be accessed on any mine site in theworld in any language. Andy Holder says such training is usually donein-field or in simulators. “In both cases, only so many people can betrained at one time. This video can be used anywhere and with anyamount of people. It also reduces training costs because mines won’thave to fork out for expensive simulators.

“The mining industry is increasingly realizing each piece of machin-ery has to perform at its peak in the face of softening demand andlower returns. This technology can assist greatly with any mine’s pro-duction performance.”

For details visit www.onekeyresources.com.au or email [email protected]

New animated mine training videos

ESTABLISHED in 1835 in the US, McLanahan Corporation has re-mained a leading provider of custom engineered solutions for mineralprocessing. Among its capabilities in sizing, feeding, washing, scrub-bing, dewatering and classifying, McLanahan provides its customerswith an extensive line of crushing solutions.

Based in Newcastle, the corporation’s Australian division, McLana-han Australia, offers mineral and aggregate processing and bulk ma-terial sampling equipment. There are also McLanahan offices inBrisbane and Mackay. The Australian operation provides the miningsector in the Asia Pacific region with engineering design and manu-facture of key mineral processing equipment such as sizers, feederbreakers, reclaim feeders, rotary scrubbers and sampling systems.

In keeping with McLanahan’s corporate goals of delivering de-pendability and reliability to customers, the Australian operation seeksto combine innovative design with over a century of experience. Thiscombination allows McLanahan to provide custom made equipmentto meet the unique and changeable conditions that each of our cus-tomers face with every new plant.

In the late 1800s, Samuel Calvin McLanahan secured a patent for

the first Single Roll Crusher. This first innovation led to the develop-ment of a full line of roll crushers including single, double, triple andquad roll crushers. Each McLanahan roll crusher features a heavy-duty fabricated steel frame design, abrasion-resistant steel plate lin-ers and easy-to-maintain parts.

Roll elements in these crushers can be designed to meet most anyapplication. Available in a variety of diameters, widths, configurationsand surface patterns, designs include a solid, cast shell with throughshaft, flanged shaft and solid shell, or segmented design either boltedto a through shaft with hubs or a barrel with flanged shafts. Driven byelectric motors and V-belts, all McLanahan Roll Crushers have in-creased efficiency, high throughput for increased production and lowroll speeds that minimize dust and fines. Low headroom and a com-pact design reduce installations costs.

The McLanahan Universal Jaw Crusher is typically capable of a 6to 1 ratio of reduction when used as a primary crusher. Available inmany model sizes, each crusher is designed with a deep crushingchamber for optimum nip, as well as a steep toggle angle for maxi-mum crushing force.

Key processing equipment from McLanahan




TWO new geological data management and exploration and minedesign solution products have been released by MICROMINE, offer-ing clients a range of new and enhanced features. The Perth-basedsoftware company says its Geobank 2013 and Micromine 2013 willincrease the user-friendliness of the established software and en-hance user productivity.

MICROMINE chief executive officer Kevin Fitzpatrick says, “I am ex-tremely proud of Geobank 2013 and Micromine 2013, and I am con-fident that our clients will realize the benefits the solutions have tooffer. Like all of our applications, these releases have been developedaccording to clients’ needs. MICROMINE is committed to listeningto its clients and developing solutions that are fit for purpose, intuitive,easy to use, logical and flexible.”

MICROMINE channels a significant investment into not only re-search and development but its intensive Beta Testing Programs,which ensure the latest software versions satisfy the needs of stake-holders when released to the market.

Geobank 2013 includes a variety of new and enhanced featuresand benefits designed to improve data security, data accuracy andreliability, and reporting capabilities, facilitating increased data confi-dence. It is a flexible, reliable and secure data management solutionspecific to the resource industry. The application provides a solutionfor the entire mining process by offering a framework for data capture,manipulation, synchronisation, validation, geological information, drillhole management, quality assurance and reporting.

Geobank product manager Steve Bastick says, “MICROMINE’sGeobank development team has worked tirelessly over the past twoyears to develop new functionality that will further benefit our clientsand the industry at large. Geobank 2013 includes a new AdvancedReporting module and major features like charting, data-binding,master-detail reports, sub-reports and a fully featured graphical end-user chart designer.”

The solution also includes a new Data Model Framework modulewhich allows users to build their data model quickly and easilythrough the provision of tools that support common data processesand data requirements. Other function-alities specific to this module include anew Audit Framework which increasesdata accountability by tracking the username, date and time data is added andupdated in the database, and newmulti-lingual support which allows usersto work in their preferred language.

“To further assist clients to reducedata errors and the time spent convert-ing data between formats, Geobank2013 includes a new Excel Importer,meaning data can be directly importedfrom Excel documents into databasesand multiple worksheets can be im-ported simultaneously from XLS andXLSX formats.”

Australian coal exploration and development company, Endocoal,says the software fulfils its data management, validation and report-ing criteria. Endocoal resource geologist Charlie Lord says, “From ourexperience with Geobank, areas such as importing and exporting areeasy, yet powerful. Our internal and external workflows are moresound and consistent. And most importantly, we have total confi-dence in the quality of our data.”

Micromine is a modular exploration and mine design solution whichallows for the capture, management, and interpretation of critical min-ing and exploration data. Micromine 2013 follows on less than twoyears after the release of Micromine 2011.

Micromine product manager Daria Lvova says, “Consistent with allMicromine releases, the new features in Micromine 2013 focus on in-tuitive usability with enhanced workflow methodologies and logicalprocesses. Productivity gains continue to be an area of focus throughfaster processing speeds, flexible import and export functions andcomputability with third-party applications.

“The release includes two new modules; Stratigraphic Modellingand Implicit Modelling, along with many enhancements and furtherimprovements to all other modules”.

JAB Resources’ chief executive officer Reso Kamberaj says, “I ama long-time user of Micromine for gold, platinum, chromite, copperand coal ore deposits. It is a very useful mining software applicationwith an easy interface. It is also reliable and quick, especially in ex-ploration where database changes/increases occur often. The newmodelling modules in Micromine 2013 are welcome additions. Theyare very efficient and enable ore modelling to be conducted quicklyand accurately.”

With clients in more than 90 countries, MICROMINE is a leadingprovider of intuitive software solutions for the entire mining process.MICROMINE understands the software and consultancy needs of ex-ploration and mining operations around the world. Located in 18 ofthe world’s major mineral producing capitals, the team is close tomost mining operations. This means MICROMINE can provide localsupport and services in your language and time zone.

MICROMINE 2013 solutions released

An image of drill hole cylinders created using Micromine 2013 software.




HEDWELD Group of Companies’ focus on product innovation andexport growth in the mining industry has led to the Hunter Valley, NewSouth Wales-based operation taking out Austmine’s Craig SengerExport Award 2013. Hedweld exports to 23 countries and has 46staff involved in export operations.

Hedweld Engineering was started in 1980 by Ian Hedley and ini-tially provided repair and maintenance services to the Hunter Valleymining industry. Hedweld then began to develop solutions to engi-neering problems, including a safe method of accessing and egress-ing large earthmoving equipment and a safe, efficient method ofcomponent handling.

The group now consists of Hedweld Engineering, Hedweld USA andMecensol, and has become a leader in the design and manufacture ofequipment, including the Trilift range of workshop component handlingequipment and the Safe-Away range of ladder and stairway access sys-tems. Both offer technologically advanced, innovative and high qualityproducts designed to improve safety and efficiency.

Safe-Away systems offer improved safety for maintenance and oper-ational personnel accessing mining and heavy earthmoving vehicles. Ac-cess solutions are available for most makes and models of truck, dozer,loader, grader, scraper, shovel, excavator and drill rig. Safe-Away offersunique functionality, real time data recording and safety features.

The Trilift range of maintenance support offers improved safety andefficiency for personnel involved in removal and installation of miningand heavy earthmoving vehicle components. Products suit a largerange of standard components and offer improved alternatives to tra-ditional component lifting and handling options.

To keep pace with ever-changing developments in heavy machin-ery design, Hedweld works closely with OEMs to custom design in-novative products to make vehicle access and component handlingsafer and more time efficient. Export sales represent 54% of totalsales. In the 2011-12 financial year Hedweld experiencedgrowth of about 20% in exports and believes this will con-tinue. Contributing factors are:• New products like the Trilift Cat 797 Transmission Hoist

going to Chile and Canada.• Success of Trilift Variable Work Tables in Mozambique,

China, South America and Mongolia.• 46% growth of Safe-Away Access System sales in

South Africa and development of new markets such asBrazil.

Hedweld is innovative in exporting, becoming the ‘Ikeaof the mining industry’ because it ‘flat packs’ steel prod-uct components to be assembled in the US. This has al-lowed Hedweld to strengthen its relationship with OEMs,shorten lead-times, optimize warehouse space and re-duce shipping costs. It also aims to use this model togrow into new markets, like South Africa and Brazil. Usingits engineering division Mecensol, Hedweld strives to de-sign products at the forefront of innovation for safety andefficiency with modular products that are easy to trans-port, assemble and maintain.

Hedweld has expanded exports by establishing agents and devel-oping a global support network, including agent partnerships in SouthAfrica, China, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Canada. Utilizingagents rather than branches means Hedweld can sustain/supportexport sales within existing and new markets. The local marketknowledge and experience agents possess is invaluable to the suc-cess of its export business.

Hedweld is expanding US facilities to improve lead times and providemore cost effective opportunities for agents and distributors, and haspurchased a warehouse/manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, Idaho. USfactory installations on OEM equipment have ensured export sales andthe strength of these relationships will sustain export growth.

To further develop markets, Hedweld has employed a dedicated,full time global markets development manager. Within the next twoyears it aims to increase exports by:• Tapping into emerging markets including India, Indonesia, Tanza-

nia, Mongolia, Russia, Zambia, New Caledonia and Belgium.• Increasing the number of agents and distributors.• Exporting ‘flat packed’ products to be assembled in the US.• Increasing product knowledge through research, which includes

customer surveys and product performance reviews. For this pur-pose Hedweld has employed a head of product research in the USand another person in Mackay, Queensland.

In 2012, Hedweld was recognized for innovation and exporting ex-cellence, winning the Small to Medium Manufacturing Exporter of theYear Award at the NSW Premier’s Export Awards and becoming oneof seven finalists in the 50th Australian Export Awards. Director IanHedley won The Warren Centre 2012 Innovations Hero Award, rec-ognizing innovation in engineering technology while Hedweld alsowon the 2012 Hunter Manufacturers Awards - Excellence in Exportof Manufactured Goods Award.

Hedweld has focus on exports and innovation

Kristy and Ian Hedley accept Austmine’s Craig Senger Export Award for 2013.


FOR more than 140 years, innovation has been a tradition at WeirMinerals, a leading supplier to the global mining industry that deliv-ers end-to-end solutions for all mining, transportation, milling, pro-cessing and wastewater management activities.

At Weir Minerals, Material Matters™. The basic premise of Mate-rial Matters is ‘you get more out of a Weir Minerals product because

of its relentless commitment to R&D resulting in superior products,enhanced output and reliability, which improve financial outcomes’.

The cost of operating a mine has steadily increased in the last 20years. According to recent reports, the cost of installing and oper-ating a new coal mine has increased nearly three-fold in the last fewyears. The story is nearly the same around the globe and no one an-ticipates any relief in the near future. As these pressures continue tobuild on the mining industry, mine operators are investing in prod-ucts that are higher quality and last significantly longer, while im-proving safety for employees and the surrounding environment.

Weir Minerals is devoted to the newest and most advanced tech-nologies, constantly striving to extend product performance and re-duce cost. This results in products that simply outwork and outlastanything in the field. The mining industry relies on Weir Minerals forquality and innovative products and services.

Weir Minerals says its’ commitment to the mining industry runsdeep because the company focuses on listening to customers.The company’s personnel are in mining operations around theworld on a daily basis, rolling up their sleeves and working onequipment, talking with mine operators and learning about thepressures they face.

As a leading supplier to the global mining industry, Weir Mineralsis committed to doing its part to understand the global economyand building products that improve mining efficiency, which ulti-mately improve the bottom line.

For example, The Linatex® Wear Indicator System transmits andreceives messages, providing a revolutionary early warning systemto mine operators. This system is superior to competitors’ modelsbecause it detects more than just a break in the wire; it measuresa change in resistance for more accurate results. The system savestime, money and lives by notifying operators when a pipe needs tobe replaced or fixed.

The development of ‘smart’ rubber linings is just one of the manytechnologies Weir Minerals is able to develop in order to improvemining profitability.



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AIMEX 2013 Preview

THE Asia Pacific’s premier mining exhibitionAIMEX is returning to Sydney’s Olympic Parkin August, with a focus on innovation to helpdelegates make efficiency savings and liftproductivity in the face of softening global re-sources prices. Organizers are expectingmore than 600 exhibitors to showcase thelatest in mining equipment, products andservices from August 20-23.

Reed Mining Events says the show isgrowing exponentially with more than17,000 visitors going through the turnstilesfor the 2011 event, an increase of 40% onthe previous exhibition. The 2013 event isthe first biennial event with previous ver-sions held every four years.

“The mining industry is going through a veryrapid rate of change and innovation, with acorrespondingly fast pace of product devel-opment. In the two years since our lastAIMEX, the industry has also really focusedon productivity and efficiency, and the needto reduce costs,” says Reed’s exhibition di-rector Paul Baker.

“In response to this, the emphasis amongexhibitors and displays at AIMEX 2013 will re-ally be all about innovation; how the very lat-est processes, systems, services andproducts can really meet miners’ demandsfor productivity and efficiency gains,”

Exhibitors will include a wide range ofsuppliers of innovative equipment, productsand services aimed at lowering costs pertonne and increasing production and min-ing efficiency. “These include suppliers oflarge items of capital equipment, such asultra-class dump trucks, underground load-ers and trucks, longwall equipment and drillrigs, through processing equipment andsystems, as well as training, safety and in-formation management solutions. It is verymuch a national exhibition; we will have newproducts and services covering metallifer-ous and hard-rock mining, as well as coalmining – in both surface and undergroundapplications,” Paul Baker says.

Product development among suppliers tothe mining industry means visitors to AIMEX

2013 are guaranteed to learn about innova-tive products, services, processes and solu-tions that they have not previouslyencountered.

“This exhibition will truly offer something foreveryone involved in the mining industryacross all regions of Australia – whether theyare from the central Queensland coalfields,the Far North Queensland hard rock mines,the Pilbara iron ore operations or WA’s East-ern Goldfields, or whether they are closer tohome in the NSW Hunter and Illawarra coal-fields, or the gold, coal and other operationsin the NSW Central West,” says Paul Baker.

“For long-term participants in the industry,there will definitely be new products and serv-ices they have not seen before, as well as thechance to network and catch up with col-leagues and suppliers, and make new con-tacts. For new entrants to the industry – atany level – it is an unmatched opportunity tovery quickly get up to speed on what makesthe industry tick, and what are the key prod-ucts, trends and developments,” he adds.

AIMEX returns to Sydney in 2013

The busy dome at Sydney Showground during AIMEX 2011

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LAST November the Pniówek hard coal minesaw the end of mining its C-1 longwall, thefirst one in the Polish mining industry that hadbeen equipped with an automated longwallsystem intended for mining thin and medium-thickness coal seams and ensuring muchhigher productivity than achieved so far inlongwalls with similar parameters. The suc-cess was owed not only to the technologyencompassing a series of innovative solutionsbut also to properly qualified people who op-erated it on a daily basis.

The automated longwall system was due tobe turned on again in the spring of 2013 atthe new C-2 longwall that is also classified ascategory 4 of methane hazard and methaneand coal outburst hazard.

When the C-1 longwall opened in April 2012,no employee suspected that some of the workmight be done by an automated system or,even more so, that the mining work might endahead of schedule. The C-1 longwall wasmined in the 404/1 coal bed, about 1.45 me-tres thick, at a depth of 1000 metres. The sys-tem ensured higher output than previouslyunder comparable conditions, ie with methaneemission of about 60 cubic metres/minute.

“I’ll repeat the words of my departmentemployees after they ended the works thatthey would not like to go back to the previ-

ous solutions they used to apply, primarilyowing to the automatic travel of the shield,advancing of the conveyor, partly auto-mated operation of the longwall shearer andpredominantly the fact that they did nothave to work directly in the area where theshields were adjusted,” says SławomirPolak, head of the department selected bymine management to operate the system.

In the automatic operation, the shields per-form the travelling and advancing cycle inde-pendently along the move of the longwallshearer. The system allows the shields tomove and the conveyor to advance eitherfrom the bottom road (in automatic mode) ordirectly from the longwall, but nevertheless ata distance even four times higher than previ-ously. Improvements offered by the systemallowed for a reduction in the number of em-ployees in the longwall. “For employees, theautomated system means comfort of work aswell. Some of the responsibility is assumedby the system that records every event in thelongwall and gives them a proper notificationin emergency situations. Then, the employeefeels comfort that beside him there is some-one to control it,” says Slawomir Polak.

Power and mechanical operation dis-patchers monitored the system on the sur-face, watching the real time progress of the

work in the longwall and in an emergencysituation could respond quickly. “If therewas a failure, a message popped up toshow which component required repairing,thus we got more time that could translatedirectly into output,” says mine’s power andmechanical operation dispatcher.

Technical facilities of the system include aKSW-460NE1 longwall shearer, TAGOR-11/26 powered roof support with an electro-hydraulic control system made byTIEFENBACH, Rybnik-850 armoured faceconveyor, GROT-850 beam stage loader anda SKORPION-1800P coal crusher. The long-wall system has electrical equipment alongwith the IPC integrated control, visualization,parameter adjustment and monitoring stationsupplied by Kopex Electric Systems SA anda loud speaking, locking and signalling sys-tem SSG-2 by ATUT. The modern technicalsolutions relied on technologies used by thecompanies composing the KOPEX Group.

All machinery and equipment making upthe system were connected through thetransmission channels with one another andwith the underground central control and vi-sualization station in the operator’s booth tomonitor the operation of the system. Anyprocesses performed by the machines in thelongwall were monitored and recorded by thecomputers in the C-2 heading. The under-ground central control station was connectedthrough the fibre optic link with the surfacewhere they analysed the system operation inthe surface work stations.

“When mining operations were performedin an automatic mode, the work of the long-wall shearer was supervised by shearer op-erators who were able to take control of themachine, if required,” says Andrzej Meder,member of the Management Board, Directorof Development and Implementation ofKOPEX SA. “At that time, the machine couldprogress along some shield of the longwallwithout any corrections of the pattern cuts orcould have the pattern cut parameters ad-justed to achieve the necessary adjustments.In addition, a person in the longwall was ableto block the operation of some or all of theshields at any time.”

KOPEX SA will be on stand 0222 at AIMEX 2013.

KOPEX makes the impossible possible

The automated longwall system used at the Pniówek mine. The modern solutions relied on technologies supplied by companiescomprising the KOPEX Group.


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JOY Global has introduced the Track ShieldCollision Detection & Mitigation System, thefirst dipper-track collision avoidance technol-ogy solution available for electric miningshovels. Designed with extensive shovel op-erator input, the system uses precise mathe-matical modelling and prediction based onreadings from sensory devices and the P&Hbrand Centurion® electrical control system tomonitor and minimize structural impact of thedipper and crawler shoes.

Repeated dipper-crawler strikes are a majorcontributor to reduced crawler shoe life andstructural cracking. This can result in un-planned and unbudgeted shoe, pin and hard-

ware replacements. Long term, it can alsomean more costly repairs to crawler framesand car body structures.

“Dippers are increasingly becoming largerand deeper. Mining operations in applicationssuch as oil sands require wider tracks to ac-commodate floatation,” says Joy Global Sur-face Mining’s product manager - technologyEric Hsieh. “Under these circumstances it isdifficult even for the most experienced oper-ators to avoid repeated dipper-track strikes.”

Joy says the Track Shield system can giveshovel operators the confidence to maintainfull speed in order to achieve optimum cycletimes. It can also assist new operators by

guiding them in where they need to be in re-spect to distance to the digging face forproper fill factors. Reinforcing best diggingpractices for both new and experiencedshovel operators, combined with improvedmachine availability, can result in a significantincrease in productivity.

By focusing on customers’ needs and har-nessing the power of technology, Joy Globalcontinues to help customers reach enhancedlevels of financial performance in today’s chal-lenging mining environment and for years tocome. The Track Shield System is availableimmediately for all P&H brand Centurion en-abled 2800 Series and 4100 Series AC and

DC electric mining shovels.Joy Global is a world leader in

high-productivity mining solu-tions. Through its market-leadingP&H and Joy brands, Joy Globalmanufactures, markets and serv-ices original equipment and re-lated aftermarket parts for thesurface and underground miningindustries. Joy Global’s productsand related services are used ex-tensively for the mining of coal,copper, iron ore, oil sands, goldand other mineral resources. JoyGlobal will be on stand 0110 atAIMEX 2013 in Sydney.

JOY Track Shield first for shovels

BAUER Group will launch a new compact hy-draulic drilling rig as well as a new de-sand-ing plant on stand 3422 at AIMEX 2013.Bauer says the Klemm KR802-3 drilling rig isan all-purpose drill rig with extensive kine-matic mast movements, making it suited tomost light to medium size applications.

“The standard boom with its 6x90 degreeswivel head allows the highest possible flexi-bility and sufficient carrying capacity to oper-ate the medium to heavy rotary heads of theKlemm KH and KD series at a maximum us-able rod length of 4000mm,” says Bauer rep-resentative Franz Fink.

KR802-3 options include a strengthened

boom for double-head drilling applicationsand an extended reach boom for soil nailingand de-watering applications, he says.

Bauer’s new MAT BE250-60 de-sandingplant is designed to remove particles in mudsand slurries used in mining, dredging anddrilling. “It can handle various materials, suchas processing water, bentonite or sediments,and its regeneration or cleaning capacity, de-fined in cubic metres per hour, is determinedby the intake capacity of contaminated sus-pension,” Franz Fink says. De-silters, cy-clones and centrifuges are available toenhance the unit’s capacity and cutting pointto every desired extend.

Bauer Equipment Australia’s portfolio includes:• Liquid-solid separation technology• Mud-handling and mixing equipment• Exploration and construction drilling/sheet

piling rigs• Deep drilling rigs for gas, oil and geother-

mal energy• Marine drilling equipment• Water and soil treatment plants• De-watering, drill and blast drilling rigs.

The combination of Bauer’s German-man-ufactured equipment and the group’s unique,versatile expertise, means Bauer is capableof providing solutions for a wide range of min-ing requirements, Franz Fitz says.

New BAUER rig and de-sanding plant

Joy Global’s Track Shield system generates an alternate path to mitigate dipper to crawler shoe impact.


VERMEER is a global agricultural, construc-tion, environmental and industrial equipmentmanufacturing company. Its equipment canbe found on jobsites around the world, serv-ing the forage, underground infrastructure,pipeline, tree-care, landscape, wood wasteprocessing, organic recycling and surfacemining markets.

Established in 1948, the Vermeer corporateheadquarters is nestled in America’s heart-land. Pella, Iowa, is a small farming commu-nity, which juxtaposes the global presence ofVermeer. In addition to its 111,483.7 squaremetre facility in Pella, Vermeer also has amanufacturing facility in South Dakota, US,

and one in Beijing, China. It has regional salesoffices in the Netherlands, Singapore andBrazil, and offers worldwide sales, support,service and parts through an industry-lead-ing, independent dealer network.

Vermeer has been long established as acompany that strives for a better way ofdoing things. It is this mindset that allows Ver-meer to look for new opportunities in newmarkets and continually evolve. Precision sur-face mining, as developed by Vermeer, allowsmine operators to selectively extract mineralseams in surface mining applications. Re-duced shock, vibration, dust and noise fromprecision surface mining enables mining op-

erations to take place closer to roads and ex-isting structures than would be permitted bydrilling and blasting.

Today’s mineral prices are driving mine op-erators to explore new methods to extractmineral seams. Where the desired mineralsare in thin layers, precision excavation can fol-low the layers and help prevent unwantedmixing of materials. Since it is entirely possi-ble that all layers are economically valuable,but not compatible, the ability to separatethem through precision excavation providesbenefits over drilling and blasting. Precisionexcavation allows this process to be closelycontrolled so that almost all available prod-ucts are recovered, resulting in a product ofhigher quality and value.

The process utilizes Vermeer Terrain Levelersurface excavation machines (SEM). The firstTerrain Leveler SEM was developed when Ver-meer took a rock trencher, removed thetrencher attachment, and added a patentedtilt-head milling attachment with top-downcutting action. Top-down cutting allows thecutter teeth to gain penetration without usingthe machine’s tractive effort to drive the teethinto the minerals. As the unit travels forwardand the drum rotates, the teeth on top of thedrum advance over the top of the mineral sur-face. As the teeth come down toward the min-eral surface, they make contact to instantly cutthe material into uniform-sized product.


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VERMEER establishes solid ground

KLAUSEN will promote mining productsfrom Jyoti Ceramic Industries on standB1073 at AIMEX. Klausen will also high-light its own WAB milling and mixingequipment line.

Jyoti products on show will include:• Zirconox and Zircosil ceramic grinding

media designed to improve the effi-ciency of ultra-fine wet grinding mills

• Alu-Cera composite panels combiningabrasion-resistant ceramic cylindersand tiles with a rubber base for improv-ing the life of feeders, chutes, bins andconveyor transfer points

• Aluma Coat ceramic coating for corro-

sion, abrasion and chemical resistanceon ferrous and non-ferrous materials,stone, concrete, wood and plastics

• Zircoat, a zirconia-based coating withhigh temperature resistance up to1800°C and high chemical resistance.

Klausen’s WAB line includes the WABDyno-Mill, described as being suited tosmall-scale production or speciality prod-ucts, with more than 8000 installed world-wide. The WAB Turbula shaker mixer willalso be on display at stand B1073.

“The Turbula is designed for small volumeapplications such as testing laboratorieswhere minimum mixing times together with

the highest homogeneity standards are re-quired,” says Klausen spokesman AnthonyKlein. “It is ideal for homogenous mixing ofpowdery substances with different specificweights and particles sizes.”

Klausen says the Turbula is exceptionallyefficient due to its use of rotation, transla-tion and inversion according to the Schatzgeometric theory. “The mixing containergoes through a three dimensional move-ment that exposes the product to an al-ways-changing, rhythmically pulsingmotion, delivering the highest requirementsin a minimum amount of time,” AnthonyKlein says.

KLAUSEN to showcase Jyoti products

The Vermeer T1655 Terrain Leveler SEM in action.


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ALTRA Industrial Motion brands WichitaClutch, Twiflex, Stieber Clutch, FormspragClutch, Marland Clutch, Industrial Clutch, TBWood’s and Bauer Gear Motor will exhibittheir latest product lines on stand 6916 atAIMEX. Visitors will be able to learn aboutAltra’s broad offering of products which meetthe specific power transmission and motioncontrol requirements of all types of mining,quarry and material handling equipment.

Stieber Clutch will feature its new compact,load sharing, high speed releasable RDBKbackstop. Twiflex will display a number ofnew products to complement its modularbrake range, including the VBS, VCSD andVKSD-VR. Formsprag, Stieber and MarlandClutch have the widest range of backstops,including more than 30 low speed designswith torque capacities up to 1626000 NM,and will be showcasing products from thisline at the Altra stand.

Altra brands will also be highlighting theproduct solutions that can be applied to im-prove efficiency, productivity and safety in

mining operations. From heavy-duty brakesfor draglines and electric rope shovels, tocaliper brakes and disc couplings on windersand ventilation fans, a wide array of Altraproducts keep mining operations runningsmoothly worldwide.

The companies of Altra IndustrialMotion are industry leaders in brak-ing, engaging, overrunning, gearingand load transmitting products.Whether a power transmission cou-pling is required or a highly engi-neered torque limiting device isneeded, Altra Industrial Motion hasthe expertise and knowledge to de-sign, manufacture and market reli-able products with the lowest cost ofownership.

Additionally, visitors to stand 6916will be able to learn about Altra min-ing products which can be foundthroughout the world, including loca-tions in China and Asia Pacific, Aus-tralia, Europe, South America, South

Africa, and North America. Altra sales asso-ciates and application engineers are welltrained to understand precise product needsand recommend the right power transmissionsolution for specific applications.

ALTRA brands to exhibit at AIMEX

INDEPENDENT consulting group, METS (Min-eral Engineering Technical Services), will featurean expanded range of engineering services andtraining courses for the mining, oil and gas in-dustries at AIMEX 2013 in Sydney. The Asia-Pa-cific’s International Mining Exhibition (AIMEX) willbe held at Olympic Park from August 20-23.

METS’ mineral processing engineering ex-pertise has been expanded following the re-cent acquisition of CDMS ConsultingEngineers, a provider of mechanical design,structural design and design verification.CDMS provides services including mechani-cal and structural engineering design, engi-neering design verification, fitness-for-serviceassessments, product development, projectmanagement, design of fabrication and con-struction aids, and expert witness assistance.

These services complement the company’sestablished mineral processing testing and in-terpretation, civil and structural engineeringdesign services, as well as its People for Plants

labour hire service. “Pooling our expertise hasmeant a wider range of service offerings,” saysMETS’ director Damian Connelly. “Visitors toour AIMEX stand (B1057) can find out aboutour comprehensive range of engineering serv-ices that can add value at any stage of a min-ing operation’s lifecycle.”

Mineral processing, mineral project econom-ics, water management, and metallurgy for non-metallurgists are also part of the Perth-basedcompany’s training program. The new half-daycourses and training packages cover subjectsranging from process plan design to gold ex-traction, and visitors to the METS stand atAIMEX will be in the running to win a one-daytraining course of choice.

With Australian expertise and engineeringconsulting services becoming more soughtafter internationally, demand for assistance increating, re-writing and updating commis-sioning and operating manuals is at an all-timehigh at METS. Overseas clients in particular

are approaching METS to have their commis-sioning and operating manuals reviewed orentirely written up from scratch. Cost pres-sures are transferring equipment purchasesto lower cost countries, however the expert-ise of Australian engineering is continuing tobe sought after to plan, operate and maintainbeneficiation plants and operations.

The digital revolution is taking over frompaper-based manuals. “For years we havebeen assisting clients with writing and updatingcommissioning and operating manuals and as-sociated face-to-face training of operators inthe classroom and on site. While the contentmay be the same, clients are now increasinglyrequesting digital delivery options for their op-erator training,” says METS Training Teamleader Tina Mucha. “Now clients are requestingdigital solutions and we have developed the e-Trainer – a tablet version of the traditional papermanual, that clients can take to location on-siteand use as a reference tool.”

New training courses from METS

Some of the Altra Industrial Motion products that will be exhibited at AIMEX 2013.


WHEN an operation is mining one of themost precious metals in the world, time ismoney. Every piece of equipment is expectedto be in top shape because every minute ofdowntime adds to lost profit. Lonmin, theworld’s third largest platinum producer,knows this all too well.

Two different types of platinum ore aremined and processed by Lonmin which alsoproduces Platinum Group Metals (PGM),consisting of platinum, osmium, palladium,rhodium, iridium and ruthenium. AlthoughSouth Africa has more than 80% of globalPGM reserves, these minerals are scarce.

Lonmin is considered a low-cost producer,generating 694,000 platinum ounces and600,000 PGM ounces in 2012, so when theKaree K3 Concentrator plant in Rustenburgwas experiencing very high operating costson the transfer points, a solution was needed.“The premature failure of our impact bedswere resulting in mounting maintenancecosts and downtime,” says Hannes Potgieter,the plant’s mechanical foreman. “We weredesperate to improve the situation.”

He has been working in the platinum in-dustry his entire career and knew the prob-lem was the garland-style impact system. Hesays the monthly costs of replacing the gar-land impact stringers and rolls at only onetransfer point was in the region of US$4000.

Since they are not permanently mounted,garland idlers have a bit more give, allowingthem to absorb slightly more impact energy.However, they have the possibility of bearingfailure and are not rated for impact by the

manufacturer. The 6306 bearings have a dy-namic load bearing capacity of 26700N andwhen overloaded they experience brinelling,which causes a dent in the track that the ballbearings run in and will increase the rolling re-sistance until enough heat builds up that thebearing fails. This is a problem with idlers ingeneral and is not limited to garland types.

Garland idlers also have two additional con-nection points between the cans that canwear and fail. Most importantly, garland idlers,just like standard idlers, do not continuouslysupport the belt. While some garland bedswere lasting six months, at one transfer point,links and rolls were being replaced weekly.

“The impact systems simply weren’t up tothe job,” Hannes Potgieter says. “The plat-inum ore is very heavy and transfer pointshave high drop points. We needed somethingmore durable.” The maximum lump size ofthe ore is 400mm x 400mm x 400mm, withspecific gravity of between 3.7 and 4.1. Themaximum height material falls is 1.5 metres,which equals 384kg/M.

Another drawback of garland idlers is thatthey do a poor job of centring the load. Theirflexible nature does not resist off-centre load-ing as well as standard idlers or an impactbed. Off-centre loading can lead to guiding ortracking issues with the belt. Kareeprocesses 255,000 tonnes/month, so havinga system that performed well, and was quickand easy to service, was important.

When Hannes Potgieter was approachedby R&C Mining with a demonstration of theFlexco DRX™ (Dual Relief Extra) 3000 im-

pact bed, he was impressed by its action.The exclusive Velocity Reduction Technol-ogy™, which deadens impact energy andreduces reaction forces for less rebound andmaterial degradation, was perfect for theheavy ore. The ultimate goal is to get mate-rial safely deposited onto the belt with as lit-tle stretching or over compressing of the beltcarcass as possible. When using idler sta-tions in general, if the material strikes the idlerbetween two stations, the belt will stretch toabsorb the load. If the material strikes directlyon top of an idler, it will over compress andpinch the fabric. In both cases, belt carcassdamage is occurring.

The DRX3000 has an initial absorption ofimpact energy in the impact bars. For mostapplications, this is enough, but when loadsget too high, the four side-mounted rostas re-ally shine. The main structure is ‘livemounted’ on these rostas and will allow theentire bed to be compressed about 75mmbefore hitting solid. Belt carcass damage,caused by loading, is minimized by increasingthe time at which it is loaded onto the belt.By allowing this much travel in the frame, theDRX3000 impact bed can absorb large loadssafely and effectively.

After 26 months, the beds were still run-ning well with no noticeable wear on thesystem. During this time, no downtime wasrequired for any of the transfer points at theplant. The Karee K3 Concentrator has or-dered and installed around 40 DRX ImpactBeds. The success of the beds has spreadto other Lonmin plants.


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Impact beds make difference at platinum mine

FLEXCO will showcase a wide range of newconveyor belt technology on Stand 3116 atAIMEX and will also use the Women in MiningDay on Wednesday, August 21, to raise moneyfor the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Flexco’s new product releases will include:• CoreTech heavy-duty nylon conveyor rollers• Australian-made impact and slider beds• A heavy-duty floating blade belt plough• The MHCP heavy-duty cartridge primary

cleaner• A pneumatic single rivet driver

Flexco’s CoreTech heavy-duty nylon con-

veyor rollers are made of high-strength, corro-sion-resistant, abrasion-resistant compositematerials. According to Flexco’s national mar-keting manager Mark Colbourn, these fire-re-sistant anti-static (FRAS) rollers are suitable foruse in harsh underground environments, aredurable and emit less noise than their steelcounterparts. “In addition, as they are up to60% lighter than equivalent steel rollers, instal-lation is quicker and less costly and the risk ofworker injury is reduced.”

The Australian-made impact and sliderbeds are designed to provide containment

around load zones and absorb the impactfrom falling material while minimizing dragon the conveyor.

Flexco’s MHCP heavy-duty cartridge pri-mary cleaner was developed for tough miningenvironments and features FRAS-approvedSuperShear self-adjusting blades, and quickand simple blade replacement.

Also, Flexco will donate $2 to the Na-tional Breast Cancer Foundation for everyentry in an AIMEX Women in Mining Dayoperator’s competition involving its newsingle-rivet driver.

FLEXCO to release new products


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BMT WBM is collaborating with Adani Min-ing on the detailed design of an expansion atits Abbot Point coal terminal in northQueensland. The agreement involves BMTengineers from Australia and India workingwith Adani’s head office team in Ahmed-abad, India. BMT WBM representatives willbe on stand 5825 at AIMEX.

The proposed expansion will result in thecoal terminal having annual capacity of 70million tonnes of product coal, and coupledwith the existing T1 terminal, will annually de-liver a total 120 million tonnes. The AbbotPoint terminals will support the newCarmichael mine in the Galilee Basin, north-west of Clermont.

BMT WBM’s Tony McAlister says, “The mar-ket reputation BMT has carved over the past40 years as a leader in mining and port infra-structure development and support servicesin Australia positioned us as the partner ofchoice for Adani Mining. In collaboration withour Indian offices, we have forged a strong re-lationship with Adani, to cover all aspects ofcivil infrastructure, mechanical and electricaldesign for the proposed port facility.”

BMT has a comprehensive knowledge of de-sign principles, standards and quality assur-ance systems, making it well placed to provideexpert advice and guidance to help deliver alarge-scale project such as this in Australia.

“We also promise attention to detail, knowl-edge of specific Australia standards, as wellas adherence to quality control practices thatwill play an integral role in ensuring the suc-cessful delivery of the detailed design phase,”says Tony McAlister. “We’re hard at work withthe assembled teams to refine the initial de-signs in order to create the most energy effi-cient systems and designs which will help tominimize initial capital expenditure and on-going operational costs for this importantproject for both Australia and India.”

BMT WBM is a leading edge consultancy inmechanical, water and environmental engi-neering and hydraulics. It employs about 190highly qualified engineers, biologists, ecolo-gists, scientists, and field and office techni-cians. Initially based in Brisbane, Australia,BMT WBM has expanded to include officesacross Australia and North America. It is partof the BMT Group, an international design, en-

gineering and risk management consultancy.Comprising 23 operating companies, in-

volved in activity across five continents, theBMT Group continues to concentrate on itscore maritime-focused offering in the organiza-tion’s three sectors of defence, energy & envi-ronment and transport. Highlights of the pastyear include acquisition of Oceanica Consult-ing, a specialist coastal and marine environ-mental consulting company based in Australia;a contract win to provide specialist dredgingconsultancy services to Rio Tinto in WesternAustralia; the delivery of weather forecastingservices in the Java Sea; and the UK Ministryof Defence’s Land Environment Tactical Com-munication and Information Systems contractwhich saw BMT lead its partners in support ofthe early phases of this acquisition program.

To help improve safety in mining, BMT ispartnering with Skill Pro Services in Australia todevelop a new way of suppressing coal dustexplosions. The innovative Active Barrier tech-nology has the potential to revolutionise safetyin the mining industry and recently picked upan excellence award from ACARP (AustralianCoal Association Research Program).

BMT WBM and ADANI collaborate

BRISBANE-BASED Hard Metal Industries (HMI) will showcase technology forwear protection on ground-engaging equipment and continuous mining ma-chines on Stand 6805 at AIMEX in Sydney from August 20-23.

“When it comes to mining, inadequate protection from wear can lead to re-duced operating times, high repair costs and expensive shut downs,” says HMI’srepresentative Andrew Dry.

Betek tungsten carbide TungStuds and TungChip overlay, designed tocounter such issues, will headline the company’s AIMEX display. “TungStudsare a cost-effective, low maintenance system for extending the life of equip-ment. Live demonstrations of TungStud welding, to show how easy andquickly this breakthrough system is applied, will feature on our stand,” An-drew Dry says.

The HMI display will also include longwall/continuous miner radial and coni-cal tungsten-tipped tools and tool holder systems as well as the latest additionsto HMI’s product range, Robit canopy tube systems and top hammer tools.

Established in Australia in 1999, HMI also has operations in Mackay(Queensland), NSW, WA, New Zealand and South Africa with clients in themining, tunnelling, drilling, construction and trenching industries. HMI’s Bris-bane head office incorporates design and manufacturing facilities to developtools for specific projects.

Wear protection systems from HMI

Hard Metal Industries’ TungStuds being applied to heavy equipment.


LOADRITE will show a new onboard weigh-ing system for large mining excavators andshovels, on Stand S150 at AIMEX. The newLoadrite X2650 is designed to ensure accu-rate and instant haul truck payload weightdata, helping mining operations increase pro-ductivity while reducing operational costs.

Designed for excavators from 200 to 800tonnes, it will be launched at AIMEX on Au-gust 20, following a successful trial at a largeNSW mine. The X2650’s ability to deliver ac-curate weight information for every bucket ofmaterial loaded makes it stand out from otherproducts, says Loadrite product manager,Excavator Series, Gordon Hain.

“Until now, most mining operations have re-lied on payload systems on haul trucks tomeasure payload weight. However, on haultrucks the data is not provided until after thebucket has been dumped into the truck, soaccurate data is only available after the truckhas left the load out location.”

The result is a flat payload distribution curvefor the fleet, with the mean not matched withthe target payload. “By then, precious timehas been wasted if you discover the truck isover- or under-loaded,” he says. “In contrast,by using the X2650, which is fitted to the ex-cavator, operators can accurately measureeach bucket-load before it is put into the

truck. This puts the power back into thehands of the operator, allowing them to makebetter decisions.”

The X2650 is a dynamic in-motion weighingsystem, meaning it measures the payloadduring the loading procedure, thereby havingno impact on the loading time. “This maxi-mizes overall productivity as it reduces under-loading trucks or the need for trucks to returnto the face if they’ve exceeded the overloadcapacity,” Gordon Hain says. “The result is apayload distribution curve centred on the tar-get payload with low variance. Realtime datais very valuable to large mining operations,which are focusing more on enhancing pro-ductivity and reducing operating costs asthey strive to increase profitabil-ity and overcome falls in com-modity prices.”

Following the success of theinitial trial at the NSW mine, it isnow fitting the X2650 across itsexcavator fleet of six machineswith the goal of maximizing po-tential cost savings the systemcan deliver. “When you considerthe ownership and operatingcost of the fleet over a year, eachtime a large haul truck needs toreturn to the face, plus the asso-

ciated lost time, and machinery stress, the sav-ings can add up to hundreds of thousands bygetting loads right the first time,” Gordon Hainsays.

The X2650 also makes it easy for mine op-erators to comply with the 10-10-20 OEMload policy, which can result in the warrantybeing voided if the haul truck is 20% over-loaded. “To comply, all loads must be below110% of the target payload with only 10% ofall loads between 110 and 120%,” he says.“The bucket-by-bucket accuracy delivered bythe X2650 takes the guesswork out of theprocess, enabling excavator operators tomeet these load requirements and protectingthe investment made in equipment.”


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New LOADRITE excavator weighing system

IMMERSIVE Technologies will display what itdescribes as the world’s first complete mineoperator training system at AIMEX at SydneyOlympic Park from August 20-23. The newsystem incorporates the company’s ad-vanced equipment simulators.

Features of the new training system include:• A training model blending eLearning, in-

structor-led training, and medium and highfidelity simulators with a customized con-tent and curriculum – designed to ensurehigh levels of staff readiness, operationalimprovement and trainee output in a cost-effective manner

• SimCloud technology offering mining op-erations complete visibility of local orglobal simulation training programs via a

secure website• Global operator benchmarking tools so

mining operations can benchmark theirequipment operators against global normsbased on data captured from more than23,000 operators

• A trainer productivity station designed toalleviate the industry shortage of experi-enced trainers

• SimDesktop, allowing trainers and man-agers to use, anywhere and anytime, theirImmersive Technologies’ simulator dataanalysis and scenario configuration tools

• SimMentor facilities for briefing before sim-ulation training sessions, and debriefing af-terwards to help increase trainingeffectiveness and free up simulator time.

“This is the mining industry’s most ad-vanced, complete and scalable solution formining equipment operator development,”says Immersive Technologies’ global eventsmanager Ashley Mullaney.

“AIMEX attendees will be able to experiencethe results of years of dedicated R&D, collab-oration with hundreds of users of the industry’slargest installed fleet of advanced equipmentsimulators, and exclusive partnerships withleading OEMs, including Caterpillar, Hitachi,Komatsu, Liebherr and P&H Mining.”

The new system is supported by ImmersiveTechnologies’ training consultants, backedby a mining operator development best prac-tice R&D team. Immersive Technologies willbe on stand 3120 at AIMEX.

Complete mine operator training system

Loadrite’s X2650 is designed to ensure accurate and instant haul truck payload weightdata for excavators from 200 to 800 tonnes.


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APC Technology will be exhibiting a range ofrugged computing solutions designed to sur-vive in the harshest locations, whether aboveor below ground, on Stand H119 at AIMEX. Afeature product will be a customized taggingsystem, which has been designed and man-ufactured at the Adelaide factory for a largeAustralian mining company.

“This tagging solution met a range of re-quirements, as specified by the client,” saysAPC’s regional sales manager Ken Duldig.These included the incorporation of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) card readersystem; connectivity and integration from theunit to existing systems on location; plus

meeting the budget and additional scope ofwork as set by the company.

“Key features include stainless steel con-struction to maximize durability, dual sealingto prevent dust and liquid getting in, and cus-tomized metal work and electrical controlpanel wiring,” says Ken Duldig. “The successof stage one production led to an expansionof the initial order.”

Australian-owned and operated, APC Tech-nology has more than 30 years’ experience ofmanufacturing for harsh and hazardous envi-ronments. APC’s rugged computing solutionsfor the energy and resources industry are engi-neered to excel in harsh environments charac-

terized by dust and high temperatures. De-signed and manufactured to meet industrystandards in ingress protection as well as shockand vibration, APC’s industrial computing solu-tions are ideal for use in any environment.

Shatterproof fascia and a variety of humaninterface options such as touchscreens,keyboards and pointing devices ensure aturnkey solution can be provided to fullymeet most needs.

At AIMEX APC will also be demonstratingsome of its latest rugged mobile solutions andInternational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)certified solutions, including input devices,touchscreen displays and panel PCs.

APC to display customized tagging system

REDSTAR Equipment will showcase a newAustralian-designed Sumo Jumbo electricaldistribution board on Stand B1074 at AIMEX.A new Denyo generator for prime fixed andprime mobile applications will be anotherhighlight of the Redstar stand.

Redstar says its Sumo range of distributionboards are designed to provide mine specelectrical distribution capability in a compact,lightweight design. They can be run frommains or generator power and can be cas-caded or daisy-chained together if required.

“The Sumo Jumbo model includes boththree-phase and single-phase outlets, all

individually RCD and MCB protected with amain isolating switch for overall protec-tion,” says Redstar national sales managerPaul Sass. The boards are manufacturedusing the highest-quality European electri-cal components and are assembled inAustralia, he says.

Sumo Boards also include lightweight alloytie-off rails that double as convenient, certi-fied lift points, enabling the units to be movedaround a site with ease and safely by hand,forklift or crane. Portability was further en-hanced by a briefcase-style design. “SumoBoards combine state-of-the-art functionalityand performance with superior safety stan-dards compliance.”

Paul Sass says initial customer feedbackabout the practicality and efficiency of theSumo Jumbo design has resulted in the dou-bling of initial production estimates for the Aus-tralian market. Redstar is looking atestablishing international distribution channels.The Sumo Jumbo is the latest addition to Red-star’s Sumo range, which includes the SumoHalf Squat and Squat. A Super Jumbo boardwill be added to the range later this year.

Redstar will also use AIMEX to promote itsrange of generators, welders, compressorsand fuel tanks, including new Denyo Series2 machines. One of the largest fixed speeddiesel distributors in Australia, Redstar serv-ices many of Australia’s largest mining, con-

struction, industrial, government and rentalorganizations.

Denyo’s new series II generators, designedwith input from Redstar engineers, offer signif-icant cost and efficiency benefits for primepower applications such as remote mines andremote accommodation facilities, said Sass.

“Denyo and Redstar have built a 10-yearassociation resulting in a generator productthat is famous for its reliability, efficiency andability to withstand the harshest conditionsof the Australian environment. We have de-ployed Denyo generators running 24-7 overmulti-year periods in weather extremesranging from the 50° Pilbara to the snowcountry in NSW, Tasmania and Victoria,”Paul Sass says.

Redstar upgrades all Denyo products withmine-spec features such as 110% bunding,emergency stop buttons, three-way fuel valvesand auto cut out switches on access doors.Paul Sass says that in addition to representingDenyo generators, Redstar is able to offer allthe capabilities of a one-stop-shop provider.“Our services include in-house engineering,electrical, mechanical and fabrication capabili-ties, as well as a variety of customisation andmodifications to suit any spec.”

Redstar stocks a full range of spare parts,backed by service vehicles and techniciansable to cover emergency breakdowns and re-pairs around the clock, 365 days a year.

New REDSTAR electrical distribution board

A Sumo electrical distribution board will be displayed by Redstar Equipment at AIMEX.


AUSTRALASIAN Pacific Engineering Group(APEG) will launch Belaz, one of the world’slargest manufacturers of mining dump trucks,onto the Australian market on Stand R090 atAIMEX. Belaz recently started offering itstrucks in Australia, with the opening of a newdistribution and support facility near Newcas-tle, gateway to the coal-rich Hunter Valley.

Based in Belarus, one of the Common-wealth of Independent States (CIS), which in-cludes Russia, Belaz began manufacturingmining equipment in 1948, moving into truckdesign and manufacturing in the early 1960s.It has supplied more than 130,000 trucks tomarkets including the former Soviet Union,the CIS and other regions, including EasternEurope, South America Mongolia, Kaza-khstan and China.

It manufactures the largest mining trucksoutside of the US and during 2013 plans torelease a 450 tonne capacity truck, which willbe the world’s largest. In Australia, Belaz hasrecently appointed the Australasian PacificEngineering Group (APEG) as its distributionand support partner.

“We see this as a big development for theAustralian resources sector,” says APEG direc-tor Shane Halliwell. “Belaz views the Australianmarket as being very solid in the medium tolong term and this move is a key part of a globalexpansion program by the company.”

With more than 14,000 employees in op-erations covering 33 countries, Shane Hal-liwell says, “Around the globe, one in threeoperating dump trucks is manufactured by

Belaz – giving an idea of the size and reachof the company.”

Belaz trucks are designed and built in amodern manufacturing centre in Zhodino,Belarus, which is producing 2000 units ayear. Shane Halliwell says the Belaz range of-fers mining companies and contractors anumber of benefits. “Firstly, while the initialpurchase price certainly delivers significantsavings over better-known brands, inde-pendent studies conducted over a 10-yearoperating cycle have shown that Belaz trucksare considerably cheaper to operate.

“Secondly, our delivery times are typically sig-nificantly shorter than some other brands. Forexample, a 240 tonne dump truck can be as-sembled in our factory and be ready to gowithin four days – giving delivery times betweenthree and five months. For some competitive

product there’s up to an 18-month wait.”APEG has recently supplied Belaz dump

trucks to one of Australia’s leading mininghouses and since April 2013 has had fiveunits operating on a ‘hire-to-buy’ basis whilebeing evaluated against its existing fleet.

Shane Halliwell says initially APEG will besupplying two models in Australia - the 240tonne and 360 tonne capacity trucks. “Theseare all built to ISO standards and specced tomeet the stringent mine site requirements ofour client. Due to our flexible production line,the factory is capable of making changes tothe trucks as required to ensure they meetAustralian mining spec standards. This en-sures there is no need for re-engineeringwhen the unit gets here, something which isboth costly for the client and can dramaticallyaffects delivery times.”


AIMEX 2013 Preview

APEG to launch Belaz in Australia

MODULAR Mining Systems will highlight itsnew MineAlert™ safety management toolsat AIMEX in Sydney from August 20-23.AIMEX visitors can learn about MineAlertand other Modular Mining products by call-ing by Stand 135S.

According to Modular Mining’s productmanager, Machine Guidance and Safety Sys-tems, William Nassauer, the company’sMineAlert technology detects hazards and in-forms mine personnel, in real time, so imme-diate action can be taken.

“MineAlert, along with our other IntelliMine

products, addresses five key safety areas: in-dividual competency, ability and perform-ance; fitness (with an emphasis on fatiguemanagement); situational awareness; proce-dural compliance; and equipment perform-ance,” says William Nassauer. “It alsoprovides mines with the reports and analysistools necessary for proactive safety policiesand procedures to be established.”

William Nassauer says that Modular Min-ing’s IntelliMine mine management suite fol-lows a multi-layered approach, which relieson integrated solutions to empower mine

personnel. “When operators are alert and in-formed of how to best operate their equip-ment, they are better equipped to achievesafe operation and zero incidents.”

Also included in the IntelliMine suite are Mod-ular Mining’s DISPATCH® fleet management,ProVision® machine guidance and MineCare®maintenance management systems. “Theseproducts integrate seamlessly to provide pow-erful reporting and maintenance managementcapabilities and gives mines with the tools theyneed to carefully manage operations at alltimes,” says William Nassauer.

MODULAR MINING to unveil mine safety suite

The two Belaz truck models offered in Australia through Australian Pacific Engineering Group.


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Foreword: German Mining Technology Serves the GlobalMining Industry

Germany’s Mining-equipment Manufacturers Achieve Another Year of Record Sales,Developing New Markets Worldwide ................................................................................................4Research and Development: Laying the Foundations for a New Generation ofWorld-leading Technology ................................................................................................................6Enhancing Safety in the Workplace ..................................................................................................7Underground Mining Technology: Centuries of History Form the Foundation for Today’sSophisticated Systems ....................................................................................................................8Underground Mining Technology: Systems for Safety and Productivity ..........................................12Materials-handling Technology: Moving More as Mines Get Bigger ................................................13Surface Mining Technology: Mining Machines for all Applications ................................................14Drive Technology: A Worldwide Reputation for Reliability ..............................................................17Innovative Technology to Keep Mines More Productive ..................................................................20Vendor Matrix and Buyers Guide ....................................................................................................22

Table of Contents:

A Special Supplement to Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ)Produced by Mining Media International11555 Central Parkway, Suite 401Jacksonville, FL 32224, USATel: +1-904-721-2925Fax: +1-904-721-2930www.mining-media.comCopyright 2013 Mining Media

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Welcome to the 2013 edition of Best of Germany, highlighting the expertise of German companiesthat supply equipment and services to the exploration, mining and mineral-processing industriesaround the world. Expertise in engineering is not something that is achieved easily. Many of thesecompanies have histories that date back to the 19th century, and have prospered since then onlythrough investing strongly in research and development.

With such foundations, it should come as no surprise that Germany leads the world with itsmining-sector technology. Germany’s reliance on its own hard- and brown-coal resources led to thedevelopment of technology that was suited first to local conditions, and then later transferredsuccessfully to other applications in different parts of the world. However, many people forgetthat German hard rock mining also led the world in terms of its technology, with a legacy of in-novation that continues to this day. Consequently, two of the country’s three principal mining in-stitutes are located where they could best serve local metal producers.

Innovation, research and development are key features that support German success in worldmarkets. This edition of Best of Germany focuses on work being done by VDMA mining branchmember companies in this area, from new chain links or electronic control systems, to energy-ef-ficient drives for big mining machines, mills or pumps.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this publication, wherever you are in the world.

Glückauf!

Dr. Paul RheinländerPresident of the VDMA-Mining Equipment Association

VDMA, the German Engineering Federation, Mining Equipment AssociationLyoner Strasse 18D-60528 FrankfurtGermany

Published by Min-ing Media Int’l in cooperationwith the VDMA

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The Bucketwheel photo on the cover was supplied by Johannes Ewers (E-mail: [email protected]), a semi-professional photographer who retired from RWE.Articles in this publication were researched and written by Simon Walker, European Editor for Engineering & Mining Journal. For additional information about thearticles or the manufacturers highlighted here, please contact Mining Media ([email protected]) or one of our regional representatives.


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Manufacturers Achieve Another

Year of Record Sales, Developing

New Markets Worldwide

Germany’s manufacturers of mining machinery built on the massiveincrease they achieved in sales turnover in 2011, with another 20%rise predicted for 2012. This was the message Dr. Paul Rheinländer,president of the VDMA’s mining branch, had for the press conferencetimed to coincide with the branch’s annual meeting in Essen in lateNovember. “We are one of the few sectors in Germany that has contin-ued to grow despite the financial and sovereign debt crisis, with an av-erage of about 13% growth each year since 2007,” he said.

Basing his comments on figures for the first nine months of the year,Dr. Rheinländer predicted that between them, the near 130-strong min-ing branch members will have achieved sales worth some€5.8 billion ($7.4 billion) during 2012, compared with €4.83 billion theprevious year. Of this, no less than €5.33 billion will have been won in ex-port markets, he added, accounting for 92% of total turnover.

Speaking later in the day to an audience composed mainly of branchmembers, Dr. Rheinländer pointed out that in value terms, new ordersfor mining equipment have doubled since 2005. In comparison, he said,other machinery sectors have had markedly less success in terms ofbusiness recovery since the economic downturn struck during 2008-09,with current sales values standing only slightly higher than thoseachieved seven years ago. “While mining is certainly a cyclical busi-ness, the downturn in orders experienced in 2009 was short-lived andthe situation is still clearly positive,” he said.

Exports are the key to ensuring that Germany’s manufacturing sec-tor continues to thrive, especially since the domestic hard coal miningindustry has become a smaller market for its products. Nonetheless, in2012 the VDMA’s branch member companies expected to increase theirsales into the local market by some 15%,Dr. Rheinländer told his audience, with a sales value of around €470million compared with €410 in 2011.

By way of an illustration for the potential of Germany’s mining andquarrying industry, Dr. Rheinländer drew attention both to the range ofminerals currently being won in the country, and to deposits that are

known about and could be worked under the right economic conditions.“We produce somewhere over 770 million mt of minerals a year,” hesaid. “We have the world’s largest brown coal mines. Add to that theconsiderable tonnages of potash and salt that we produce, and the mil-lions of tons of building and construction raw materials, and you cansee that mining is a bigger business than most people in Germany re-alize.

“And other things make us quite optimistic about the future for thedomestic market,” he added. “Just as an example to show that miningin Germany can be worthwhile, the Storkwitz rare-earth deposits in Sax-ony contain a resource of 38,000 mt worth €1 billion. Or the Erzebirgetin deposits—these have resources of around 160,000 mt, makingthem one of the largest in the world. And don’t forget, the copper de-posits in Saxony. The Kupferschiefer there has a 200 million mt resourcefrom which about 2 million mt of copper could be recovered.

“Once Germany’s last three hard coal mines have been shut, thecountry will be totally dependent on imports,” he reminded his audience.“Some day, hard coal mining here will pay off again, but we will needto make substantial efforts to make this happen.”

Export Markets: The Balance ChangesLooking at the specific details of VDMA branch member companies’success in exporting worldwide during 2012, Dr. Rheinländer noted thatalthough there had been a near-halving in orders from China year-on-year, increases won in other parts of the world had more than compen-sated for this. “In Australia alone, revenues are expected to grow by afactor of four,” he said. In percentage value terms, this meant that Ger-man companies’ exports to Australia last year were almost equivalentto those achieved in China in 2011. Accounting for 15% of export sales,Australia was their most important market, a gain of five positions inthe export league table in 12 months.

Other major success stories have been the increase in exports to theUnited States and Latin America, where there has been steady growthover the past three years. Meanwhile, demand for new equipment inthe sector’s second most important market, Russia, has been main-tained during the period.

Looking specifically at the Chinese market, Dr. Rheinländer notedthat a number of factors had combined to reduce demand there. Thecountry’s economy has cooled overall, he said, and growth rates havefallen, leading both public and private investors to be more cautious.Steel demand has also fallen, which has impacted coking-coal pro-duction. On top of that, there has been good progress in expanding theoutput of the new large coal mines in the country, and Chinese manu-facturers are becoming increasingly able to produce equipment them-selves for their own market. “Against this background, we hope to beable to maintain our turnover in the future,” he said.

Dr. Rheinländer went on to say that there are other factors that mayinfluence demand in some of the major markets. These include the im-position of new mining taxes in Australia and the rapid development ofshale gas resources in the U.S., which will undoubtedly have an im-


pact on the coal industry there. Overall, however, the VDMA is expect-ing that its mining branch members will be able to maintain theirturnover in the short term, while looking further ahead, there is good po-tential for resumed growth.

International Cooperation IncreasesThe VDMA has been focusing specifically on raising the profile of Ger-man engineering in Latin America over the past few years and this,said Dr. Rheinländer, is now beginning to pay off. In Chile alone, hesaid, the value of equipment sales quadrupled from 2011 to 2012, andmarkets are growing in Colombia and Peru as well.

In addition, he welcomed the raw materials partnerships createdduring the year with both Kazakhstan and Mongolia. These, he said,have the potential to make an important contribution to Germany’s raw-materials supply in the longer term as well as opening up new marketsfor German industry. The “Future Mongolia” trade fair, which was firstheld in Ulan Bator last year and for which the VDMA is a conceptualsponsor, is to be repeated in June 2013, providing what he described as“an outstanding platform” for raising awareness about German com-panies and their products in the region. Of the nearly 100 companiesthat exhibited there last year, VDMA mining branch members includedGHH Fahrzeuge, Putzmeister Solid Pumps, Prakla Bohrtechnik, RWEPower International, Tenova Takraf, Voith Turbo, Düchting Pumpen,Eirich and Caterpillar, with a number of others amongst the strong Ger-man contingent.

International Marketing Continues StronglyIn his presentation during the branch’s annual meeting, held as alwaysat the historic—and architecturally world-renowned—Zollverein con-ference center in Essen, Dr. Rheinländer spoke of the work that theVDMA carries out on behalf of its members at conferences and tradeshows. He also made special mention of the value of publications suchas Best of Germany in helping the organization in doing so.

While bauma heads the list of mining-equipment exhibitions withVDMA participation this year, as shown in the table, the organization willalso be marketing German engineering and expertise worldwide. Tradeshows in Australia, China, Indonesia and Mongolia cover the PacificRim, while its drive to secure larger markets in Latin America will con-tinue at events in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

“We are using the VDMA brand as a synonym for mining technol-ogy from Germany,” he said, adding that there is a proposal to use thename “VDMA Mining Equipment” for the branch in order to increaserecognition internationally. With a group of new members acquired dur-ing 2012, the branch is going from strength to strength. So is Ger-many’s contribution to the world mining-equipment market.

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Date Show Location

15-21 April bauma Munich, Germany17-21 June Exponor Antofagasta, Chile19-22 June Future Mongolia Ulan Bator, Mongolia20-23 August AIMEX Sydney, Australia4-7 September Mining Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia16-20 September EXTEMIN Arequipa, Peru23-26 September EXPOSIBRAM Belo Horizonte, Brazil25-27 September Colombia Minera Medellin, Colombia22-25 October China Coal & Mining Beijing, China


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Research and Development:

Laying the Foundations for a

New Generation of World-leading

Technology

As VDMA Branch President Dr. Paul Rheinländer notes in his forewordto this edition of Best of Germany, German companies’ developmentof successful products and services has been founded on decades—in some cases, well over a century—of dedicated research. These pro-grams often require substantial financial commitments, especially astechnology is continuously becoming more sophisticated, which in turnleads to the need for companies to target those areas that will best ful-fill their customers’ requirements.

The VDMA-sponsored series of “Future Mining” conferences, whichtook place during 2010 and 2011, gave industry and academia the op-portunity to discuss current research projects and to identify where fu-ture research needs to be targeted. Workshops run concurrently withthe meetings, which took place at Aachen, Clausthal and Freiberg tech-nical universities, looked at ways in which mining equipment could beoptimized, not only for individual customers, but also on a regionalbasis by taking appropriate levels of technological sophistication intoaccount.

Speaking at the VDMA branch annual meeting in Essen, the chair-man of the organization’s research and technology steering committee,Dr. Holger Lieberwirth of Tenova Takraf GmbH, offered a view on how newR&D programs can be driven forward. First, however, he reminded hisaudience of an illustration of the risks involved in not carrying out ade-quate R&D. He used a slide from a presentation given in 2010, in whichan imagined news report from 2020 discusses the closure of the coun-try’s last manufacturer of mining equipment. “We have to ensure thatthat will not happen,” Dr. Lieberwirth said, as he outlined some of thechallenges facing the equipment-manufacturing sector.

“What has happened in the market over the past two years?” heasked. Aside from it having been a boom time for German mining equip-

ment sales, there has also been an increase in merger and acquisitionactivity worldwide, with new suppliers in the international market bring-ing increased competition. “And what do we need to do in order to en-sure that German mining equipment remains competitive in the longterm?”

Dr. Lieberwirth looked at some of the suggested themes that hademerged from the Future Mining conferences. Improved training, morepractical relevance in university courses, better transfer of expert knowl-edge to customers, better energy efficiency, a better understanding ofrock mechanics, the development of unmanned production faces, au-tomated transport systems both on surface and underground, and im-provements in wireless data transmission and control systems; all ofthese could help make mining safer, more environmentally compatibleand more productive, he said.

Of course, a lot of effort is already being spent on addressing thesepoints, he added, giving examples such as selective mining that can re-duce the amount of waste being handled, the use of backfill as a meansof reducing the industry’s environmental footprint, and using rock me-chanics to reduce or minimize the effects of unwanted ground move-ments on operations.

“There is no lack of ideas, the challenges are more to do with re-sources to get them implemented,” he stated. “When the market isbooming, qualified people are in short supply, while if the market isquiet, obtaining the financial resources needed to carry out the R&Dbecomes more of a problem.

“One option to help overcome this is the establishment of a pre-competitive research community,” Dr. Lieberwirth suggested. In thisway, German companies would be able to work together in the earlystages of R&D, each gaining valuable information that they could usefor their own product development while retaining competitive integrity.He gave the example of a current three-way project being undertaken byCaterpillar, Eickhoff and Tenova Takraf that is evaluating the funda-mentals of rock cutting from different perspectives.

Eickhoff is looking at the development of a simulation model to opti-mize the design of shearer drums, he explained, while Caterpillar’s role inthe partnership is to focus on rock properties for optimizing the extractionprocess. Tenova Takraf is contributing work on simulating the comminu-tion processes involved in rolls crushers as a way of saving energy. “Manyaspects of rock characteristics are still not used in optimizing rock cut-ting,” he said. “By doing so, the partners are looking at ways of saving en-ergy, reducing wear and making better products.”

Many of the companies featured in this edition of Best of Germanyhave chosen to highlight equipment that has come from extensive R&Dcarried out over many years. That there is a very wide range of techni-cal expertise within the VDMA’s mining branch can be seen very clearly,covering everything from high-precision pumps, valves and electronicsto the real heavyweights of the mining world; high-capacity loading,hauling and materials-handling machines. Today, German manufac-turers continue to lead the way as they develop the next generations of21st century mining and mineral-processing equipment.Dr. Lieberwirth speaking at the VDMA branch meeting in November.


No one will dispute the need for safety to be at the top of any min-ing operation’s agenda. The industry has unquestionably come along way in improving its safety performance, through better train-ing, management and equipment. Here too, companies in Germanyare helping the industry to achieve even higher safety standards,with technology to support the human element in day-to-day oper-ations and during emergencies.

Making Underground Mining SaferWhile the hazards associated with mobile equipment, such as LHDsand mine trucks, is well-recognized, longwalls and room-and-pillaroperations are also high-risk areas for personal injury. To help ad-dress this, Caterpillar has developed Cat® Detect Personnel: a per-sonnel proximity-detection package that forms part of the Detectcapability set within the company’s Cat MineStar™ system.

Using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags worn by each indi-vidual, and detection units mounted on the mining machines, Cat DetectPersonnel identifies where people are and transmits their location infor-mation to the machine control system. This then takes the appropriate ac-tion—such as inhibiting machine movement and providing warningsignals—when necessary, to avoid potentially unsafe situations.

For longwall operations, the system involves equipping each roof sup-port with a detection unit that transmits data to the control system gov-erning automated roof-support advance. Where Caterpillar’s PMC-Relectro-hydraulic control system is in use, Cat Detect Personnel woulddelay roof-support advance when people are detected in the affected area.

Enhancing Escape and Emergency InterventionFounded in 1889, and with its world headquarters in Lübeck, Drägeris an international leader in the fields of medical and safety tech-nology. Present in more than 190 countries, the Dräger group gen-erated revenues of around €2.26 billion in 2011.

The company notes that conventional emergency escape sys-tems, centered on self-escape with a self-contained self-rescuer(SCSR), refuge station and aided rescue, are commonly used in themining industry across the globe. However, SCSRs are designed toenable a person to escape to a place of safety in an emergency—andusers may put their lives at risk by attempting to provide assistanceto others or to try to fight a fire.

Dräger says that a new emergency escape philosophy can becreated by integrating self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)and a refill station into a conventional SCSR self-escape system.Recent experience in several underground mines in New South Walesand Queensland, Australia, has shown that an integrated systemlike this can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of a self-es-cape system, as well as improving the chance of quickly containingand controlling an emergency underground.

Building on its experience in other industries such as tunnellingand oil and gas, Dräger introduced its ChargeAir System to the Aus-tralian mining industry more than 10 years ago. Comprising aChargeAir Station and Dräger SCBA sets, the system allows usersto recharge up to five SCBA sets in minutes, the company says.

Given a defined maximum travel distance from a fresh-air base,the SCBA set could allow trained personnel to undertake emergencyinterventions right away, such as containing a small- to medium-sized fire, or helping casualties. In this way, for example, a fire couldbe contained and an incident brought under control before surface-based rescue teams arrive. During firefighting in particular, Dräger’sSCBA set not only provides breathing protection against smoke andheat, but also offers the possibility of communication among theteam. Once the air pressure in the set gets low, the response teamcan top up their cylinders at the ChargeAir Station, then continuewith their response activities. The company points out that inte-grating such a system into an emergency escape procedure obvi-ously entails detailed risk assessment and cautious planning.

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Using a Dräger ChargeAir station to recharge a SCBA set.


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Underground Mining Technology:

Centuries of History Form the

Foundation for Today’s Sophisti-

cated Systems

Specialization in designing and producing highly efficient undergroundmining equipment is nothing new to Germany’s engineering compa-nies. Look underground at some of the machinery at the historic Ram-melsberg silver mine near Goslar, and the ingenuity shown by theminers of the Middle Ages is nothing short of staggering. Move forwardin time, and the coal deposits of the Ruhr and the Saar basins provideda fertile foundation for the development of world-leading coal-miningmachinery, made by companies with reputations for investing in inno-vation time and time again.

Rammelsberg may have closed, and the German hard coal indus-try is but a shadow of its former size, but the legacy of high-quality, re-liable mining machinery remains as strong as ever. Consolidationamongst manufacturers has led to the formation of modern compa-nies that can compete effectively in international markets, with a grow-ing trend toward the transfer of technologies that have already beenproved in the coal sector into applications in hard rock mining as well.And, of course, there is a continuing groundswell of new, often smallcompanies emerging that provide niche and highly specialized systemsand services that more than complement those from the country’s es-tablished manufacturing base.

Take, for instance, GTA Maschinensysteme GmbH, which joined theVDMA mining branch during 2012. Based in Hammelkeln, the companyspecializes in producing machines for roadway support systems in bothmining and tunnelling. Its concepts are largely based on using theupper space in a development heading, with drills, support manipula-tors and work platforms that are either track-mounted or are operatedfrom monorails suspended from the heading roof.

Or DAT Bergbautechnik GmbH, featured in the last edition of Bestof Germany, which both produces and renovates longwall face equip-ment, as well as custom-building pump stations and other machinery.The company recently introduced a new conveyor-belt cleaner, replac-ing a drum with a spiral-surfaced frame that strips dirt from the driveside of the belt and removes it from the belt line.

Specialist Drilling, Cutting and Loading MachinesToday part of Deilmann International Mining & Tunneling GmbH, Deil-mann-Haniel Mining Systems (dhms) specializes in the production ofroadheaders, drill rigs and loading/dinting machines for undergroundmining. Its sister company, Canada-based J S Redpath, now includesDeilmann-Haniel’s shaft-sinking services, while dhms focuses exclu-sively on its range of mining machines.

“Dhms can design and build complete roadway driveage systems,”said the company’s sales manager for Europe, Michael Maas. “Road-headers, drill jumbos, bolters, loaders and dinters, back-end systems,drill rigs for methane drainage, drilling tools—in fact everything thatthe customer needs.

“We have been actively developing new markets in Russia, Chinaand South Africa, and have added our new roadheader family to ourproduct list,” Maas added. “After a year-long development programme,

we now have three roadheaders working in the Czech Republic andthree in Russia—with the next three machines scheduled for deliveryin early 2013.”

Currently available in three versions, the R60t and R75t with a tel-escopic boom and the R75 without, dhms’ roadheaders are designed forcutting rocks up to 80 or 100 MPa respectively. As an example, the R75carries 355 kW of installed power, 200 kW of cutting power and is de-signed for heading sections of between 14 and 31 m2. Wide crawlertracks help distribute the machine’s 77 mt weight, while it stands just2.5 m high. Customizing is common, and Maas told Best of Germanythat one Russian customer had requested a modification to a slewableconveyor overhang on its machines, enabling them to load direct intoshuttle cars rather than on to a bridge conveyor. A key safety feature onthese machines is the use of two separate remote-control systems, onefor cutting and one for operating the on-board bolting rig.

Dhms has also developed its own 15 kW hydraulic drifter for use onits drill rigs. A key feature here is the unit’s very short length, while itcan use a range of interchangeable male and female shanks and canbe run on non-flammable fluids. “The short drifter gives more usabledrilling depth relative to the overall feed length, which is important forbolting feeds,” Maas said.

Highly innovative, dhms’ EQ200 compact underground excavatorcan carry a whole range of tools on its boom, allowing it to be used withdifferent buckets for loading, as a drilling/bolting machine, with a hy-draulic hammer for scaling, or with a working platform. Basically de-signed for multi-function use during shaft-sinking, the excavator canalso be used effectively for underground infrastructure work, the com-pany believes.

Practical Vehicles for Underground MiningFounded in 1968, Hermann Paus Maschinenfabrik GmbH has beensupplying equipment to the mining industry for almost 40 years. Thecompany says that right from the beginning, it was successful in break-ing into markets in the CIS countries, where it remains one of the majorsuppliers. It also had significant involvement in the mechanization ofGermany’s coal mines during the 1980s, when rubber-tired vehicle tech-nology was introduced.

The EQ200 from dhms can be fitted with a range of attachments.


However, with the decline in coal mining in Germany and elsewhere

in Europe, Paus is now using its experience in flame-proofing for other

markets in the world, such as in China, where it has a joint venture for

manufacturing personnel carriers for coal mines. The company also re-

ports that Latin America is now one of its strongest markets, along with

Russia, and that it has established a sales and service subsidiary in

Chile and an office in Moscow.

According to Paus, it now offers a virtually unrivalled range of serv-

ice and production vehicles for underground mining: utility vehicles, LHDs,

dump trucks, scalers and the company’s well-known MinCa, used mainly

for personnel transport. For special applications, it has developed a rail-

based ditch cleaner to help increase productivity and safety during the

maintenance of drainage ditches alongside underground track systems.

And its 853 S8 scaler is—unlike most of the other scalers on the mar-

ket—a small, versatile machine that can be used for very sensitive

checking of haulage roofs before scaling, replacing manual scaling.

In production now for more than 20 years, Paus’ MinCa is a front-

steered, all-wheel-drive transport vehicle that can handle payloads of up

to 4 mt. It has a number of add-on cassettes, such as passenger cabs for

up to 18 people, crane platforms and tank and service units, to meet spe-

cific customer requirements. Despite this capability, the MinCa is com-

pact and can turn a 90° bend in a tunnel only 4.3 m wide—or narrower

if equipped with four-wheel steering, Paus says.

Powered by 90 kW Deutz emission-controlled engine with a hydro-

static drive system, the MinCa has a top speed of 33 km/h (20 mph) and

can climb inclines of up to 60%. Paus has recently introduced a new

chassis design for the vehicle, featuring a suspension system that en-

sures that all four wheels remain in contact with the ground as well as

improving the ride quality for the operator and passengers. A hinged cab

that gives improved maintenance access is also part of the new design.

Shotcrete Spraying in Southern SpainFounded in 1958, Putzmeister produces a wide range of high-pressure

concrete pumps, concrete-placing booms and solids pumps,

as well as concrete spraying equipment for mines and tunnels.

Putzmeister’s underground division has been designing and building

concrete-spraying equipment for more than 30 years, with its systems

being used in mining and tunnelling projects all over the world. Its

spraying systems apply shotcrete at output rates of up to 30 m3/h and

spraying reaches of up to 17 m, the company says.

To complement and improve the concrete-spraying process in min-

ing, Putzmeister has designed a low-profile concrete mixer, the Mixkret

4. With a concrete capacity of 4 m3 and a tank for transporting and

transferring liquid additives, it saves costs each time concrete is trans-

ported, the company claims. The machine is equipped with a 130 kW

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Paus has recently undertaken a complete redesign of its MinCa personnel carrier.


(174 hp) engine that provides it with good climbing and moving power,as well as the possibility of working at high altitudes, while the com-pact design gives a high level of mobility in narrow haulages. Its hy-drostatic transmission has a stepless variable-gear motor, and there isan automatic speed-control system for moving down slopes fully laden.

Putzmeister reports that the Mixkret 4 has already been used suc-cessfully at several jobsites since it was launched. Together with anSPM 4210 Wetkret, the company’s latest model of concrete-sprayingequipment for low-height tunnels, one unit is being used at Trafigurasubsidiary Iberian Minerals’ Aguas Teñidas mine in the Iberian PyriteBelt in southern Spain.

Working volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, Aguas Teñidasmines 2.2 million mt/y of ore to produce copper and zinc concentratesplus lead, gold and silver. Most of the ore production comes from long-holeopen stoping, with the main stope layout consisting of a 20 m-wide trans-verse panel system that extends over the strike length of the deposit.

After each development blast, the SPM 4210 Wetkret shotcretingsystem is used to provide roof support. The vertical reach of the ma-chine’s reinforced spraying arm has been increased to 10 m, which alsoprovides a 25% increase in the spraying speed at the arm tip as wellas increased manoeuvrability, Putzmeister says. Its double-piston pumpprovides a maximum concrete output of 20 m3/h. The equipment alsouses the company’s latest software to optimize its operation as well assynchronizing the concrete and additive flows, using a proportional re-mote control that can be operated both by cable and wireless.

Experience has No Substitute—Eickhoff Since 1864Eickhoff’s story began almost 150 years ago when the companystarted manufacturing parts for the local mining industry; mining trol-

leys and shaft hoists were the first components produced right in theheart of Bochum. The first complete Eickhoff coal-cutting system wentinto operation in 1914, the first bulk order from Russia was signed in1926, and Eickhoff mining machines also found their way to the U.S.In the 1970s, it became the first foreign company to deliver miningmachinery to China. Today, the company says, more than 95% of itsmining-equipment turnover comes from international customers.

Continuously pushing the boundaries of technology, in the 1950sand 1960s Eickhoff introduced the world’s first high-powered hydraulic-driven shearer-loader with the Eicotrack chainless haulage system.During the 1970s, it developed the first fully electric-powered multi-motor shearer, the EDW 150L. It followed this in 1980 with the EDW300LN, the first fully electrical thin-seam shearer, featuring frequency-converter technology. The SL 500, introduced in 2000, was then theworld’s strongest and biggest shearer-loader, with a 5.5 m seam ca-pability, and in 2007 the company launched the SL 1000, which is ableto cut as high as 7.1 m with a total installed power of up to 2,600 kW.This constant development of mining machinery has allowed Eickhoffto achieve the highest sales numbers of longwall shearers in the in-dustry, the company claims.

Today, Eickhoff says, its coal-cutting machines are operating in al-most all countries where coal is produced underground. From the remoteregions of Vorkuta in Russia to winning potash in Belarus—requiringvery specialized, high-powered machines—to Anhui and Shanxi provincein China with deep mines and challenging mining conditions, it has thereputation for delivering equipment that works without compromise.

Eickhoff reports its machines hold several unrivalled worldproduction records. The first monthly record of 1 million mt was achievedat the Shangwan mine in China in 2003, being equalled in 2007 by SL750-equipped Oakey Creek in Australia, working a mere 3 m face. In theU.S., meanwhile, Eickhoff shearers help Consol Energy’s Bailey mine con-stantly to be one of the country’s top underground producers.

Looking ahead, the company says that its engineers are alreadyworking on the next generation of mining machinery. Its online com-puter support combined with onboard maintenance systems and intel-ligent automation options help to make underground coal mining saferand more efficient. With the help of the latest computer-aided designand simulation processes, and using the latest foundry and manufac-turing technology in its own facilities, Eickhoff is continuing to pushthe envelope of shearer technology.

Pioneering Continuous Haulage for HardRock Mass MiningWith Caterpillar’s German operations one of the world’s foremost inte-grated suppliers of underground coal-mining equipment, it was logical

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Putzmeister’s Mixkret 4 low-profile shotcrete mixer and transporter.

The record-breaking Eickhoff SL 750 shearer at Consol Energy’s Bailey mine in Pennsylvania.


for the company to investigate the potential for transferring its tech-nology concepts to the hard rock mining environment as well. Headingthe list of developments in terms of bulk materials handling, its RockFlow system has the potential to redefine the way in which large un-derground mines are designed, the company states.

Caterpillar believes that with the Rock Flow approach, mine oper-ators are looking at the best of both worlds, since the system meansthat block-caving mines can increase their production rates as well ascut the amount of underground infrastructure needed. It also allowsthem to replace the concept of using LHDs to move rock from the draw-points to an orepass—which is a cyclical operation—with more en-ergy-efficient continuous haulage.

Rock Flow uses a Rock Feeder under each drawpoint, using a re-ciprocating hydraulic push-beam system to provide a continuous flowof ore on to a Rock Mover—a chain conveyor that takes output from aseries of adjacent drawpoints.

Caterpillar already had one such unit on trial at Codelco’s Salvadormine in 2007, with a second, more extensive system scheduled for in-stallation at the company’s Andina operation in 2013. Major Rock Flowbenefits include fully automated, continuous high-performance oper-ation supervised from a surface control room, the company says, aswell as ease of maintenance and system redeployment. In addition,ventilation requirements are lower because of the replacement of dieselLHD engines with electric drives, while the system needs significantlyfewer people working underground.

Changing Mining Concepts with R&DAt the beginning of this year, Aker Wirth GmbH released some updated in-formation on its MTM 6 mobile tunnel miner, developed in cooperationwith Rio Tinto (See Best of Germany 2011, p.55). Designed to achieve ad-vances of up to 10 m a day, the machine is now scheduled to be putthrough full-scale trials at Rio Tinto’s Northparkes copper mine in Aus-tralia during 2013, the company said. Carried on a crawler and walking

mechanism, the MTM 6 excavates rock with six hydraulic arms fitted withdisc cutters, with the muck being handled by a loading apron and a chainconveyor. Using undercutting technology, it can handle hard rock with acompressive strength of up to 300 MPa, and although it is 75 m long, ithas a turning radius of just 30 m, according to Aker Wirth.

The company is also supplying a smaller version of the machine, afour-arm MTM 4, to Codelco for use in development in preparation for theunderground production phase at Chuquicamata. Just 40 m long with a12 m turning radius, the MTM 4 should be able to achieve up to 12 m ad-vance a day, more than double existing drill-and-blast rates, Aker Wirthbelieves, adding that tunnelling costs should be at least 30% lower thanfor drill and blast, depending on the conditions. The MTM 4 is scheduledto begin trial development at Chuquicamata in mid-2014.

Aker Wirth provided an update on progress on its conceptualseabed-mining system, developed in cooperation with the German Fed-eral Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) between2009 and 2012. Designed for mining manganese nodules from waterdepths of up to 6,000 m, the system consists of two nodule collectors,a transport system for conveying the material, and a specially-designedproduction vessel. During 2012, the company and its partners under-took a profitability analysis for the complete system, concluding thatdeep-sea mining is very lucrative, even given current prices of raw ma-terials and anticipated price developments.

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The Rock Feeder component of Caterpillar’s Rock Flow system.

Aker Wirth’s MTM 6 mobile tunnel miner will be trialled this year.


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Underground Mining Technology:

Systems for Safety and Productivity

Underground mining is not, of course, solely about the hardwareinvolved. Ancillary equipment such as specialized pumps,valves and control systems is playing an increasingly importantrole in ensuring that operators can win the best productivitypossible from their investments in machinery. As well as sup-plying underground mining, loading and hauling machines, Ger-many’s equipment producers offer the complete range ofsupporting systems, from individual components to completecommunications infrastructure.

Rock cutting is of particular significance for mining in gen-eral, not just underground, especially as companies continue towork in expanding the range of rock that can be excavated bycutting rather than by drill-and-blast. Kennametal’s Germansubsidiary, for instance, is a VDMA mining-branch member withlong-standing expertise in the design and manufacture of tung-sten carbide picks for shearers, continuous miners and surface-mining machines.

High-pressure Pumps for Longwall MiningHaving been established as the European subsidiary of a U.S.company 10 years before, since 1984 Kamat-Pumpen GmbH &Co. KG has been focusing on the development of high-pressurepumps for use in mining, metallurgical plants and a number ofother industries. The company points out that its R&D activi-ties have enabled it to become one of the leaders in the field ofhigh-pressure technology.

Kamat began working in mining water hydraulics in 1990,since then it has consistently gained new markets. It now has sys-tems working in longwall mines in the U.K., the U.S., Turkey, Aus-tralia, China, Ukraine and Russia—where it commissioned its firstunderground pump station during 2012. “We are very strong in theU.S. market,” Managing Director Andreas Wahl told Best of Ger-many, “and we have a significant market share in Australia andChina. We are also seeing a trend toward companies using fewer,

bigger pumps, as well as using pumps with variable-speed drivesthat help to reduce valve wear by adjusting the fluid flow in re-sponse to actual needs on the face.”

Kamat’s product range includes high-pressure pumps, pumpsystems and accessories for pumping various kinds of fluids atworking pressures up to 3,500 bar. “Customers are often look-ing for turnkey units, so we provide tailor-made systems, in-cluding a choice of motors, variable-speed drives (VSDs) andan electronic control system,” Wahl explained.

Introduced in early 2012, the company’s 3G series of pumpsis now well-established, according to Wahl. With Kamat invest-ing heavily in new machining facilities for its operation in Wit-ten, it is also aiming to have all of its ranges optimized by thebeginning of this year. “With less vibration and less noise, thedifference is really impressive,” he said.

Used for applications with power inputs currently in therange 100-530 kW, and with an 800 kW unit being introducedthis year, the G pump family opens the possibility of usinglighter base frames, as well as putting less stress on pumpparts and the whole pump unit assembly, according to Kamat.In addition, the G pumps are optimized for the use with VSD-driven motors and with diesel engines, allowing them to be runat between typically 20 and 100% of nominal speed. The rangeretains the advantage of straight-forward maintenance andwear-part replacement seen on earlier Kamat pumps.

Kamat’s K50000M-5G, five-plunger pump is designed foreven more demanding applications. With a maximum powerinput of 530 kW, the mining version can handle up to763 liter/minute, and up to 640 liter/minute without the need forbooster pressure.

Aside from its longwall pumps, Kamat produces pumpsfor dust-suppression in underground mining, for descalingin foundries, smelters and steelworks, and for high-pressurecleaning.

Kamat supplied this pump car to the Westcliff mine in Australia.


Materials-handling Technology:

Moving More as Mines Get Bigger

Mining and quarrying companies around the world are facing newchallenges, especially in relation to the tonnages of material thatthey need to move as ore grades continue on their long-term down-ward trend. And it is not just a question of handling ore—increas-ing tonnages being run through the mill mean greater volumes ofwaste rock to handle as well.

German companies have long been at the forefront of materials-handling technology, not just for mines, but for overland conveying,stockpiling and reclaiming, shiploading and unloading. The boom inseaborne commodity trade—especially for coal and iron ore—has ledto increased demands for port facilities that can handle the volumes in-volved, while the opening of new mining areas has required the instal-lation of complete new materials-handling infrastructures.

Belt Conveyors—an Economical AlternativeThe Beumer Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG group, based inBeckum and with affiliations around the world, has been developingcustomized system solutions for conveying, loading, palletizing andpackaging technology for more than 75 years.

Belt conveyors, Beumer says, provide an economical and eco-logical solution for transporting bulk materials and packaged goods.They can overcome long distances, steep gradients and tight curves,and can be individually matched to the particular task and topog-

raphy of the terrain. Their impact on nature is minimal, while satis-fying the greatest demands of nature conservation.

Beumer’s systems use tension-resistant, durable conveyor belts,with the company applying a range of design criteria to determine theoptimum belt configuration. These enable tensile forces to be calcu-lated, together with the forces that occur during drive accelerationand deceleration while taking the intrinsic weight of the belt and thetransported material into account. Software is used to calculate pos-sible curve radii and the required power of individual drives.

The company also undertakes feasibility studies on conveyor sys-tems so that the best match can be achieved between the belt lineand the site environment. Belt systems can be used to move materialover rough terrain and other obstacles such as rivers, roads, build-ings and rail tracks, with both horizontal and vertical curves as nec-essary. Encroachment on the landscape is rarely necessary, Beumersays, apart from the support pillars and the steel structure. Compa-nies can save considerable costs in terms of the earth-moving thatwould otherwise be needed, while installing these belt systems is rel-atively straight-forward, even where site access is difficult.

By choosing the belt system on a more direct route, transporttimes have been reduced while the conveyors can be operated withsignificantly fewer personnel. The system also uses less energy andso has lower CO2 emissions, Beumer says.

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Few other companies in the world have comparable expertise in de-signing and building surface-mining machines to those based in Ger-many. While it is true that two out of the three major suppliers ofhydraulic mining excavators with production plants here are foreign-owned, the undisputed fact remains that the technology involved isfundamentally German, representing decades of continuous researchand product development.

German companies have also been at the forefront of developingcontinuous mining technology, with systems that encompass the fullmining, transport and waste-handling process. Indeed, according tocompanies interviewed by Best of Germany, there is an increasingtrend toward further applications for continuous mining systems, es-pecially where mines are being operated in remote locations where in-frastructure and fuel are expensive.

New Excavators and Mine Trucks from LiebherrLiebherr AG took the opportunity afforded by last year’s MINExpo showin Las Vegas to launch new mining excavators and haul trucks, whichare made in Colmar, France and Newport News, U.S., respectively. Theface-shovel version of its R 9400 excavator was one of the machinesfeatured, while the introduction of the R 9150 came as a replacementmodel for the earlier R 984 C. Of the two trucks, the T 284 replaces thecompany’s former top-of-the-range T 282 C, while the T 264 marks its

return to the 240-ton class of hauler after a number of years.With an operating weight of 353 mt, the R 9400 is matched to load-

ing 150 ton-class trucks. It is available in both diesel and electric ver-sions, and carries a 22 m3 (28.8 yd3) bucket in standard configuration.Power for the diesel version comes from a 1,250 kW (1,675 hp) Cummins QSK50 Tier 2-compliant engine, with Liebherr sug-gesting that the electric drive option is an efficient alternative for ma-chines working in cold climates.

The company says the 130 mt R 9150 has been built to outperformall competitors in the small-class mining market. It uses a Tier 2-com-pliant 565 kW (757 hp) Liebherr V12 diesel engine equipped with astate-of-the-art engine-management system; when less power is re-quired, “Eco-Mode” can be selected via the machine monitor panel toreduce the engine load, thereby improving the fuel efficiency and re-ducing carbon emissions. The R 9150 carries an 8 m3 bucket.

Both new excavators have been designed for maximum perform-ance by improving the efficiency of all the individual subsystems, thecompany states, and have been engineered for straightforward serv-iceability to give maximum uptime.

Liebherr claims the T 284 offers the highest ultra-class payload inthe industry, combining the benefits of a low empty vehicle weight and anelectric drive system. Developed and built by the company, the LitronicPlus AC drive determines the optimal way to extract power from the en-

The face-shovel version of Liebherr’s R 9400 excavator.

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Machines for all Applications


gine, it says, so that more power is available to accelerate the truck andclimb grades. The system also conserves fuel when the engine is idling,minimizing fuel consumption and maximizing performance.

The T 284 supports engine options with power ratings up to 3,000 kW (4,023 hp), allowing customers to select an engine that willdeliver productivity targets under their specific conditions. It also sup-ports high-capacity tires.

Meanwhile, the T 264 is sized to match the R 996 B and R 9800 hy-draulic excavators, as well as electric shovels and wheel loaders. It canbe fitted with engines up to 2,013 kW (2,700 hp), with an advanced trac-tion-control system that helps operators to maintain steering control andtruck stability, even in wet or icy haul-road conditions.

KMG: Mining Excavators for Tough ConditionsWith its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Komatsu Mining Germany GmbH(KMG) is part of the worldwide equipment manufacturer, Komatsu ofJapan. Within the group, KMG is responsible for the development, pro-duction and marketing of super-large excavators for open-pit mining.

KMG’s history goes back to the early 20th century. In 1907, CarlshütteAG built the first electrically driven rope shovels, with the company laterbeing taken over by Deutsche Maschinenbau AG (Demag). The currentproduction plant was built in 1939, and over the years, Demag repeatedlyset new milestones in developing mining equipment. In 1949, the BL 335rope shovel was the biggest in the world and five years later the companyintroduced the world’s first fully hydraulic, diesel-driven excavator. Demagfollowed this in 1972 by developing the first hydraulic excavator with atotal machine weight of more than 100 mt.

Following a 20-year period when Demag was part of the Mannes-mann group, in 1999 the company was bought by Komatsu, and was

renamed Komatsu Mining Germany. Today, it is a global player, claim-ing a near-30% share in the international market for extra-large exca-vators for open-pit mining. It also claims market leadership in the 700mt-plus class of excavator, reporting that the 100th PC8000 machine isscheduled to leave the factory during the first few months of this year.

KMG produces four different types of super-large hydraulic exca-vators and shovels at its Düsseldorf plant, with machine weights of between 250 and 760 mt. Buckets sizes range from 15 m3 tothe 42 m3-capacity bucket carried by the company’s flagship, thePC8000. A variety of customization options are available, in addition tothe standard equipment specifications, with customers able to chosebetween diesel and electric drives as well as between backhoe or frontshovel configurations.

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A Kleemann mobile crushing and screening plant.


The company points out that it has a policy of continuously improv-ing its products to reduce emissions and increase safety on and aroundthe machines. It is certificated to ISO 9001 and 14001 as well as OHSAS18001 (health and safety management). In terms of technical develop-ments, it is continuing to implement additional IT solutions, such asModular Mining, into its excavators, while for special applications, it canequip its machines so that they are capable of working at high altitude(above 5,000 m) and down to temperatures of -50°C.

Wirtgen Group Mineral Technologies—Reliable and EfficientWith Wirtgen surface miners and Kleemann crushers and screens (seephoto on previous page), the Wirtgen Group GmbH’s Mineral Technolo-gies division says that it offers a well-matched product range for miningand processing minerals. Mining and processing mineral raw materialsimpose high demands on man and machine, so durable, high-perfor-mance equipment is essential, the company adds, pointing out that itcontinuously channels experience gained in practical applications intofurther technological advances.

Wirtgen offers three models of its surface miners, which can be cus-tomized to meet the needs of each project: the 2200 SM, 2500 SM and4200 SM. More than two dozen cutting drum designs are available as stan-dard, the company says, and further designs can be developed and builtfor specific applications. More than 420 surface miners are now in usearound the world, selectively extracting soft laminar deposits, as well asin special applications in salt, granite, kimberlite and oil-shale mining.

The company recently introduced Wirtgen Pick Inspection (WPI), asystem that measures the wear of surface-miner cutting tools. Consist-ing of eight very rapid measuring sensors integrated into the miner’s cut-ting-drum compartment, the system takes just a minute to measure pickwear, so it can be used while changing trucks without incurring downtime.

Specific applications where Wirtgen surface miners are at work in-clude the Paragominas bauxite mine in Brazil and Fortescue MetalsGroup’s (FMG) iron ore operations in Western Australia. In Brazil, a 2500SM has been extracting bauxite since 2011, cutting and loading around800 mt/h directly into trucks. FMG now has a 43-strong fleet of sur-face miners, including 28 4200 SMs. In 2012, general overhauling of thesurface miners in Perth was added to Wirtgen’s service program.

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A Wirtgen surface miner loading directly into a haul truck.Inset: the operator’s screen.


Drive Technology: A Worldwide

Reputation for Reliability

Several of Germany’s big-name suppliers of industrial drives havebecome virtually synonymous with the technology worldwide. Reliabledrives are essential throughout the mining cycle, from shovels in thepit to mills, pumps and fans.

Two of the VDMA mining branch’s new member companies,Maschinenfabrik Völkmann GmbH and AEM-Anhaltische Elektro-motorenwerk Dessau GmbH, have interests in the drive-technologysector. Völkmann is an engineering firm that carries out structuralfabrication and produces hydraulic systems, together with over-hauling and repairing industrial gearboxes. It also provides repairservices for Voith Turbo, handling work on fluid couplings for the Eu-ropean market. AEM produces slip-ring and squirrel-cage electricmotors for use in applications such as conveyors, crushers, millsand pumps, as well as three-phase synchronous generators forpower generation.

Electrification and Automation for Materials HandlingLocated in Cottbus, ABB’s main technology center for material han-dling has its roots in the local lignite-mining industry, which stillplays an important role in German power generation. The center ispart of ABB’s mining business unit, which serves the mining andminerals-processing industry worldwide with electric and automa-tion systems, and mining-specific products. In addition to providinglifecycle services to the local industry, its focus is as a sub-supplierto mining-equipment manufacturers such as Tenova Takraf, Sand-vik, Joy Global, ThyssenKrupp and FAM.

Large open-cast mining operations throughout the world haveused ABB control and drive systems for decades, with ABB being oneof the leading suppliers of electrification, automation, control anddrive systems for the full range of mining equipment. This includesbucket-wheel and bucket-chain excavators, spreaders, stackers, re-claimers, crushers, shovels, draglines, belt-conveyor systems, beltwagons and stockpilers. The company says its equipment has beenproved to withstand extreme conditions—dust, severe vibration andtemperatures ranging from -50°C to plus-50°C—in more than 1,000large mining machines during the past 50 years. Its standard ACmulti-drive installations have been mechanically reinforced to makethem suitable for the mining sector.

In 2012, ABB won an order for an automation system at a new60 million mt/y-throughput iron ore distribution hub on the west coastof Malaysia that will distribute ore shipped from Brazil to steel millsin the Asia-Pacific region. Its system will automate the materials-handling process, including stockyard management, with autonomousoperation for maximum efficiency and personnel safety.

The company is also working on export terminal projects in east-ern Russia (with Tenova Takraf) and in Colombia with Sandvik.

With the growing trend for “greener” mining, energy efficiency isbecoming increasingly important, especially for long-distance ma-terials transport. ABB is now cooperating with Tenova Takraf to de-velop solutions for gearless conveyor drives, and reports that thefirst project to be developed jointly will be undertaken in Chile.

Elsewhere, ABB and Joy Global completed a shovel retrofit proj-ect for the largest merchant coke producer in the U.S. last October.ABB replaced the shovel’s obsolete drives and relay controls, giving

it another 10 years of life as well as cutting its energy consumptionby up to 20%.

Energy-efficient Drive Systems from NordGetriebebau Nord GmbH & Co. KG (Nord Drivesystems) has beensupplying drives to users in all sectors of industry since the companywas founded in 1965. Today, it has subsidiaries in 35 countriesaround the world, complementing its headquarters in Bargteheide,near Hamburg, and its other plants in Germany.

The company specializes in drive technologies such as drivemotor-gearboxes, frequency converters and servo-controllers. Typicalapplications in the minerals industry include drives for mills, con-veyors and other materials-handling systems and, as Nord’s man-ager for the cement and minerals sectors, Robin Werner, told Best ofGermany, these areas now form one of the company’s most impor-tant markets. “Our aim is to optimize the energy efficiency of ourmotors and gearboxes,” he added.

Nord offers motor-gearbox sets with capacities from 10 to morethan 200,000 Nm, while building its own electric motors up to200 kW size. In fact, it says, its customers have something like 40 mil-lion potential design variations to chose from, enabling them to selectexactly the right unit for the job. “We help customers through theprocess of selecting the correct gearbox,” Werner said, pointing outthat customers can use online tools as part of the process. Time-crit-ical orders can be turned around in 24 hours, the company claims.

As an example of minerals-sector use of its drives, Nord reportsthat the major European cement and aggregates producer, Holcim,has equipped its operations in Croatia with these units. At the Sum-ber and Ocura quarries, for instance, they are fitted to all of the con-veying systems, including belt conveyors, bucket elevators and screwconveyors, each of which has markedly different operating charac-teristics and loadings.

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Siemens’ gearless drive for Los Pelambres’ ball mill.


At Holcim’s 750,000 mt/y-capacity Koromacno cement plant,meanwhile, Nord drives are used for all of the materials-transportsystems, including conveyors. The company has supplied helical,parallel and bevel-geared motors for these applications which, insome cases, require the units to be manufactured to explosion-proofstandards. As it has been using a uni-block casing system for morethan 30 years, Nord says, this presents no problems, with all of thegearbox bearing seats and sealing surfaces being machined to hightolerances on the latest CNC-machining centers. Nord reports thatHolcim has been so pleased that it recently signed a three-year con-tract to replace existing units with Nord drives at all of its operationsin nine eastern and central European countries.

Gearless Drives: The Key toHigher ProductionCompanies in the global mining industry are facing major chal-lenges, says Siemens. If they are to improve productivity whilesimultaneously cutting costs, mining companies need high-per-formance products that are also energy-efficient and offer max-imum availability and flexibility. Such products also need tocomply with environmental regulations while providing maximumsafety for employees, machines and material.

Siemens’ Drive Technologies division supplies all-around solu-tions that meet customers’ individual requirements. The companystates that with its Simine product family, it links up automation,drive and power-supply systems to provide one all-around solution.

According to Siemens, its gearless drives for mills, hoists, con-veyors, excavators and pumps are setting a new standard for produc-tivity in the mining industry. Benefits claimed for these drives includethe highest availability on the market, the highest efficiency and in-telligent use of energy in weak grids, and a proven design that canhelp keep an operation ahead of its competition, with systems thatprovide answers to the challenging demands of the mining industry.

The company explains that the gearless mill-drive conceptavoids any contact and wear between the rotating mill and themotor stator, with the same concept being used for gearlessdrives for hoists and conveyors. This allows production to carry

on continuously without any need for maintenance on couplings,gears and pinions.

The high availability of the gearless drive is based on maturetechnology, the company says, which it continually updates with newproven features. As an example, the cyclo-converters used in the de-sign are just one of the reasons for this, since they are highly effi-cient, reliable variable-speed drives.

In March 2012, Siemens reported that it had completed mod-ernizing a gearless grinding-mill drive at Newcrest Mining’s CadiaValley operations in New South Wales, Australia. It fitted the 40 ft-diameter, 20 MW SAG mill with a Sinamics SL150 cyclo-converterfor closed-loop control as well as with a Sinamics DCM control mod-ule for the excitation circuit—the first time that both types of con-verter had been used in a gearless drive, the company says.

Late last year, Siemens Drive Technologies division commis-sioned a gearless belt-conveyor system from ThyssenKrupp at Xs-trata Copper’s Antapaccay mine in Peru. The first large-scalereference for this technology outside Germany, the gearless driveswill help to boost the efficiency and reliability of the conveyor sys-tem, as well as reducing maintenance requirements.

Siemens’ scope of supply also included the entire switchgearand gearless drive systems for a 40 ft SAG mill and two 26 ft ballmills, with the gearless drive system using the latest version ofthe SL150 cyclo-converter. The success of the Antapaccay systemled to Siemens receiving a follow-on order from ThyssenKruppRobins to supply a gearless drive system for an overland conveyorsystem at Xstrata’s Las Bambas copper mine.

Fluid Couplings for Conveyor DrivesA group division within Voith GmbH, Voith Turbo specializes in hy-drodynamic drives, coupling and braking systems for road, railand industrial applications, and in ship-propulsion systems. Voithexplains that the hydrodynamic principle of a fluid couplingmakes it easy to accelerate driven machines gently. At the sametime, fluid couplings limit torque, provide load sharing anddampen torsional vibrations. The coupling protects the drive sys-tem from damage, even under extreme operating conditions, soreducing downtime and helping to ensure continuous production.

The company’s product portfolio for mining and raw-materialshandling includes constant-fill and fill-controlled fluid couplings,as well as customer-specific drive solutions that are reliable andspecifically tailored to the requirements of each application—fromindividual couplings to complete drivelines that can transmit powerin the range of 300 W to 6 MW, it says.

Developed especially for the drives on open-pit mining belt con-veyors, its latest fluid coupling technology—the TurboBelt780 TPXL—transmits twice the power previous couplings of a sim-ilar size could achieve. This, according to Voith, is because of its in-novative XL blade wheel profile. The fill-controlled coupling isdesigned for 6- and 8-pole induction motors operating at speeds of900-1,200 rpm. The start-up procedure, with a precisely-controlledintroduction of torque, protects not only the belt but also the entiredriveline. Start-up times of up to several minutes can be individu-ally set in the control system, and even overloaded belt conveyorscan be started reliably, the company says.

In May 2012, the first installation to use this technology wascommissioned at one of the biggest sea terminals in northernBrazil. To handle increasing tonnages of iron ore, the mining com-pany decided to install three TurboBelt 780 TPXL couplings in thedrives of a 1,451 m (4,760 ft.)-long main conveyor that carriesaround 10,000 mt/h. Reliability is, of course, a high priority for the

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ABB upgraded the drives on this BWE at Vattenfall’s Welzow-Süd mine ineastern Germany.


customer, and Voith reports that the TurboBelt 780 TPXL couplinghas given a system availability of up to 99.8 % when combinedwith reliable mechanics.

The company also points out that maintenance can be cut to aminimum since hydrodynamic power transmission is com-pletely wear-free. Compared with traditional couplings, the TurboBelt780 TPXL requires only half as much installation space and is alsosignificantly lighter, so installation and alignment was quick andstraightforward.

As well as fluid couplings, Voith supplies drive packages thathelp operate belt conveyors in the most efficient way, including thedrive hardware, PLC controller and supervision of installation, to-gether with commissioning.

Drive Technology: Always on the Safe SideSpecial preventive measures are needed when machines and sys-tems operate in areas where there is an explosion risk, and SEW-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG highlights the fact that its motors andgear units meet regulatory requirements for this type of equipmentas set out by ATEX in Europe, IECEx (international) and HazLoc-NA forNorth America. Being certified according to these standards makesthem suitable for worldwide use, the company adds.

With its headquarters in Bruchsal, SEW-Eurodrive has opera-tions in around 45 countries worldwide, producing drive systemsthat range in application from the highly precise to bulk materi-als-handling. As an example of the latter, the company suppliedindustrial gear units to ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik for use ontwo 3,900 mt/h mobile-crusher/belt wagon/conveyor systems thatwere recently installed for handling overburden at Vale’s Carajásiron-ore operations in Brazil. From its plants in Germany and

Brazil, SEW supplied 20 XM and XL gear units for the belt drives,and another four for the double-roll crushers. TKF installed 10SEW X2P planetary gear units in the crawler drives for the crusher,belt wagon and spreader, with a further 20 PHF planetary gearunits in the crusher’s slew drives, the tripper-car trolleys and theapron conveyors.

SEW offers gear-motors for use in potentially explosive areasaccording to IECEx equipment-protection levels Gb and Gc for gasprotection and Db and Dc for dust protection. They also complywith ATEX requirements for categories 2G, 2GD and 3GD, and3D for zones 1/21 and 2/22, while being available in categories3GD and 3D as a brake-motor. The combined gas/dust approvalsfor its gear-motors simplify the selection process for the relevantdrive components, SEW points out, reducing the number of vari-ants and allowing customers to use these machines in combinedgas/dust zones.

The company says that its explosion-proof gear units and motorsare produced with special components, with particular attentionbeing paid to quality assurance. Features include an IP54 or higherlevel of protection for motors in a gas environment, and protectionto IP5x/IP6x for motors in dusty conditions. The gear-unit lubricantused can withstand high temperatures, with high-quality oil sealsbeing used, while terminal boxes are made from aluminium or greycast iron with seals that can withstand high temperatures. Unitsalso have improved earthing, and all fixing screws are securedagainst unwanted loosening.

SEW’s series D MOVIMOT® decentralized drives can also be com-bined with its new EDRx explosion-proof motors. These drives havefour-pole EDR motors that are suitable for operation with an inte-grated frequency inverter, with a motor power range of 0.25-3 kW.

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Innovative Technology to Keep

Mines More Productive

German companies’ investment in R&D is by no means limited to heavyequipment. Right across the board, they are continuing to develop newand innovative technologies that find ready markets within the miningand exploration sectors—worldwide.

The range of specialization within the VDMA’s mining-branch mem-bership is nothing short of staggering. In this chapter, Best of Germanylooks at some of the other ways in which these companies contribute tomaking mining safer and more productive. In some cases, they offer tech-nology that has been transferred from other industrial sectors to findvaluable uses within mining and mineral processing. Conversely, thereare situations where equipment has been designed specifically for min-ing, and now finds applications elsewhere. There are also companiesthat specialize in providing their skills and expertise to OEMs, either fornew machinery or through repair or renovation services for equipmentthat has already given good service in the field.

A Successful Provider of Winder SolutionsWith its origins dating back to 1871, and more recently an offshoot fromthe mining logistics division of Siemag GmbH, Siemag Tecberg hasbeen an independent company since 2007. Today a leading specialistin mine hoisting technology, the company’s product range covers thecomplete field of equipment required for the operation of mine winders.Besides the winders themselves, it supplies auxiliary equipment forrope handling, rescue purposes and mine cooling. The design and de-velopment of all of its products is based on expertise that the companyhas accrued during the development and construction of more than200 complete systems and 1,000 winders.

Siemag Tecberg says that many of the world’s leading companies

from the mining and energy industries rely on its systems, with its140 years of experience forming the basis for many successful projectreferences all over the world. Long-term customer-orientated supporthas laid the foundations for continuous technological improvementsand developments related to its systems and equipment, the companyadds, noting that it holds more than 50 international patents and au-thorised components according to BVOS regulations.

During 2012, Siemag Tecberg signed two contracts for the supplyof mine winders to customers in China, as well as delivering a custom-designed mobile winch system for use in shaft inspections and mine-rescue operations. In June, it won an order from Lu’an Group for thedesign, manufacturing, delivery, installation, commissioning and serv-ice of two hoisting systems for the 8 million mt/y Gucheng coal mine.Siemag Tecberg is working with Siemens on the project, which is the 10th

system that the company will have supplied to Lu’an since its first con-tract from the company in 1988.

Siemag Tecberg followed this in September 2012 with the award ofan order for a high-capacity shaft-hoisting system for Jincheng An-thracite Mining Group’s Zhengzhuang coal mine in Shanxi province.Centered around a 6 m-diameter, 3.5 MW winder, the system will havea 51 mt payload. This contract again illustrates the company’s long-term relationship with Jincheng Anthracite, which began with the de-livery of a high-performance brake system.

Between these events, the company presented its mobile winch to cus-tomers at its factory at Haiger in August. Supplied to Xinwen Coal Group Co.,the winch is mounted on a four-axle truck and is equipped with two rescuecages for carrying up to four or 10 people each on two decks. The 1,300 m-long rope includes a communication cable in its core.

Siemag Tecberg has supplied more than 1,000 mine winders.


Air-powered Lifting Expertise from JDNJ D Neuhaus GmbH & Co. KG has been supplying handling equipmentfor more than 250 years, and pioneered the use of compressed air forpowering handling equipment in the early 1950s. This ensured that itslifting and pulling equipment is suitable for use in hazardous areas andwhere there was a potential explosion risk, the company says.

JDN products, which now include optional hydraulic-powered opera-tion, are used worldwide in all of the major heavy industries. With a rangethat covers lift capacities from 250 kg up to 100 mt, it offers high-per-formance products that can be used wherever there is the need for safelifting, moving and the precise placement of loads. The company statesthat its Ex-rated hoists ensure the highest levels of safety for operatingin potentially explosive or other dangerous atmospheres.

JDN notes that over the years, it has developed many purpose-de-signed products for use in mining. Typical applications for its hoistsinclude positioning shields on longwalls, lifting and lowering workingplatforms, uses together with monorails for materials transport, andlifting and lowering equipment and service ranges in shafts.

Its hoists are also widely used for tensioning and pulling in factoriesand repair shops, and for mounting equipment such as loader bucketsonto machines. Advantages offered as standard by JDN mining hoists in-clude their very robust, low-maintenance design, the company adds, whilethey are also compact and low-weight, making them easy to handle. Airhoists require an operating air pressure of 4 or 6 bar, with its Profi seriesable to run on oil-free air, so reducing any emissions impact.

JDN products designed specifically for mining and other undergroundapplications include the M-series air hoists. These operate off 4 barpressure and can be supplied in lift capacities of 1, 2, 3 and6 mt. Twin chain pulls are provided for alternate working, and all hoistsfeature a top hook mounting to accommodate oblique or horizontal load-pulling. These hoists can be equipped with two optional control systemsfor single- or two-handed operation, the company says.

Its Profi TI series hoists are also suitable for use underground andoperate off air pressures of 4 or 6 bar, with hydraulically operated unitsalso available. With lift capacities of up up 100 mt, these can be fittedto traverse monorail trolleys for lifting up to 20 mt. Suited for applica-tions in hazardous areas, as defined under EC regulations, versions areavailable with both standard and enhanced spark protection.

Erlau: New Concepts in Tire Protection This year, Erlau AG celebrates 70 years of producing tire-protectionchains. Since 1943, when it adapted its snow-chain technology for useon pneumatic-tired loaders shovels, the company has established itselfas a world-leading supplier of tire-protection and traction chains. As ex-amples of its ongoing research and innovation, Aalen-based Erlau saysthat its top innovations during 2012 were its fully patented Easylockand Sideflex.

Traditionally, the free ends of the tire-protection chain mesh are joinedwith a set of open-ended “Omega” rings, the open ends of which are closedby a hasp held in place by hammering home a pair of steel pins. This ex-ercise is not without its dangers: as well as bruised fingers and hands, theinstaller risks injury from flying steel fragments. When it comes to remov-ing the chain, corrosion will invariably have locked up the pins, with the onlysolution being to use flame-cutting equipment. Not only is this laboriousand turns the rings into scrap, but using a live flame against rubber tirescontravenes health and safety regulations.

Erlau says that Easylock does away with pins, hammers and flame-cutting, and wastes no components. Using an integral locking deviceembedded in the hasp, Easylock is quickly secured and released quicklyby a single 90° turn of a hex key. Benefits include significant reductionsin installation and maintenance times, as well as improved safety, re-duced material costs and the facility to retro-fit to any make of chain,Erlau adds.

Under the banner of advanced asset protection, Erlau’s tire-protec-tion chains protect earthmover tires from heavy abrasion and sudden-death sidewall damage, and provide essential traction safety over clayeyand frozen haul roads. Until recently, however, these chains have notbeen suitable for use on high-cost haul-truck tires, which remained atrisk of sidewall damage from debris during haul-road use.

In addressing this problem, Erlau’s designers looked outside tradi-tional round-link chain manufacture for a solution, and produced Side-flex. This, the company explains, consists of a set of replacement boltsand extensions, and a steel ring that supports a circular shield ofplatelets. Made of a sophisticated light-weight “memory” polymer usedin the automotive industry, the Sideflex platelets flex and deform to de-flect shards of rock away from the tyres. Following extensive quarry tri-als, Sideflex gives truck owners a viable, cost-effective truck tireprotection system for the first time, the company says.

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Using a JDN air-powered hoist to lift equipment underground.

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ABB Automation GmbHGeschäftsbereich Open Pit MiningGaglower Str. 17 - 1803048 CottbusWeb: www.abb.com/mining

ABEL GmbH & Co. KGAbel-Twiete 121514 BüchenWeb: www.abel.de

AEM -Anhaltische Elektromotoren-werk Dessau GmbHDaheimstr. 1806842 Dessau-RosslauWeb: www.aemdessau.de

ANDRITZ Ritz GmbHGüglingstr. 5073529 Schwäbisch GmündWeb: www.andritz.com

Apollo Maschinenbau GmbHGrünauer Fenn 4414712 RathenowWeb: www.apollo-maschinenbau.de

Atlas Copco MCT GmbHLangemarckstr. 3545141 EssenWeb: www.atlascopco.de

AUMUND-Fördererbau GmbHSaalhoffer Str. 1747495 RheinbergWeb: www.aumund.com

AViTEQ Vibrationstechnik GmbHIm Gotthelf 1665795 HattersheimWeb: www.aviteq.de

BARTEC Sicherheits- undSchaltanlagen GmbHHolzener Str. 35 - 3758708 MendenWeb: www.bartec-mining.com

BAT Bohr- und AnlagentechnikGmbHBorntalstr. 1136460 MerkersWeb: www.bat-maschinenbau.de

Bauer Maschinen GmbHBAUER-Str. 186529 SchrobenhausenWeb: www.bauer.de

Becker Mining Systems AGBarbarastr. 366299 FriedrichsthalWeb: www.becker-mining.com

Bell Equipment (Deutschland)GmbHWilly-Brandt-Straße 4-636304 AlsfeldWeb: www.bellequipment.de

BEUMER MaschinenfabrikGmbH & Co. KGOelder Str. 4059269 BeckumWeb: www.beumer.com

BHS-Sonthofen GmbHAn der Eisenschmelze 4787527 SonthofenWeb: www.bhs-sonthofen.de

BOCHUMER EISENHÜTTEHEINTZMANN GMBH & CO. KGKlosterstr. 4644787 BochumWeb: www.be-heico.de

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BRÄUTIGAM Gear & Mining TechGmbH & Co. KGAm Schürmannshütt 8 - 1847441 MoersWeb: www.braeutigam-group.com

CATERPILLAR Global MiningEurope GmbHIndustriestr. 144534 LünenWeb: www.mining.cat.com

CATERPILLAR Global MiningHMS GmbHKarl-Funke-Str. 3644149 DortmundWeb: www.mining.cat.com

CFT GmbHCompact Filter TechnicBeisenstr. 39 - 4145964 GladbeckWeb: www.cft-gmbh.de

CompAir Drucklufttechnik GmbHZweigniederlassung der GardnerDenver Deutschland GmbHArgenthaler Str. 1155469 SimmernWeb: www.compair.de

Cyrus GmbH SchwingtechnikAm Stadion 4045659 RecklinghausenWeb: www.cyrus-germany.com

DAT Bergbautechnik GmbHAm Schornacker 6146485 WeselWeb: www.dat-bergbau.de

DEUTZ AGOttostr. 151149 KölnWeb: www.deutz.com

Deilmann-Haniel Mining SystemsGmbHHaustenbecke 144319 DortmundWeb: www.dhms.com

DMT GmbH & Co. KGAm Technologiepark 145307 EssenWeb: www.dmt.de

Maschinenfabrik HeinrichDöpke GmbHStellmacherstr. 1026506 NordenWeb: www.doepke-gmbh.de

Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaARevalstr. 123560 LübeckWeb: www.draeger.com

DÜCHTING PUMPENMaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KGWilhelm-Düchting-Str. 2258453 WittenWeb: www.duechting.com

DURUM Verschleißschutz GmbHCarl-Friedrich-Benz-Str. 747877 WillichWeb: www.durmat.com

EEP Elektro-Elektronik PranjicAm Luftschacht 2145886 GelsenkirchenWeb: www.eep.de

Eickhoff Bergbautechnik GmbHHunscheidtstr. 17644789 BochumWeb: www.eickhoff-international.com

MaschinenfabrikGustav Eirich GmbH & Co KGWalldürner Str. 5074736 HardheimWeb: www.eirich.com

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EnviroChemie GmbHIn den Leppsteinswiesen 964380 RossdorfWeb: www.envirochemie.com

FAM Förderanlagen Magdeburgund Baumaschinen GmbHSudenburger Wuhne 4739112 MagdeburgWeb: www.fam.de

FLSmidth Wadgassen GmbHKarl-Koch-Str. 166787 WadgassenWeb: www.flsmidth.com

FLSmidth Wiesbaden GmbHAm Klingenweg 4a65396 WallufWeb: www.flsmidth.com

GEA Westfalia Separator GroupWerner-Habig-Str. 159302 OeldeWeb: www.westfalia-separator.com

Getriebebau Nord GmbH & Co. KGRudolf-Diesel-Str. 122941 BargteheideWeb: www.nord.com

GHH Fahrzeuge GmbHEmscherstr. 5345891 GelsenkirchenWeb: www.ghh-fahrzeuge.de

El.-Ap. GOTHE & CO. GmbHKruppstr. 19645472 MülheimWeb: www.gothe.de

GTA Maschinensysteme GmbHLoikumer Rott 2346499 HamminkelnWeb: www.gta.eu

H + E Logistik GmbHJosef-Baumann-Str. 1844805 BochumWeb: www.helogistik.de

Arthur Habermann GmbH & Co. KGGoethestr. 1258453 WittenWeb: www.habermann-gmbh.de

HEINRICH DE FRIES GmbHHebezeugfabrikGauss Str. 2040235 DüsseldorfWeb: www.hadef.de

HammelmannMaschinenfabrik GmbHZum Sundern 13 - 2159302 OeldeWeb: www.hammelmann.com

Hauhinco MaschinenfabrikGmbH & Co. KGBeisenbruchstr. 1045549 SprockhövelWeb: www.hauhinco.com

HAVER NIAGARA GmbHRobert-Bosch-Str. 648153 MünsterWeb: www.haverniagara.com

HAWE Hydraulik SEStreitfeldstr. 2581673 MünchenWeb: www.hawe.de

HAZEMAG MiningBrokweg 7548249 DülmenWeb: www.mining.hazemag.de

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hema electronic GmbHRöntgenstraße 3173431 AalenWeb: www.hema.de

Herrenknecht AGSchlehenweg 277963 SchwanauWeb: www.herrenknecht.de

HESE Maschinenfabrik GmbHMagdeburger Str. 16a45881 GelsenkirchenWeb: www.hese.de

Hilti Deutschland AGHiltistr. 286916 KauferingWeb: www.hilti.com

Howden Ventilatoren GmbHStubentalstr. 4489518 HeidenheimWeb: www.howden.com

HYDAC International GmbHIndustriegebiet66280 SulzbachWeb: www.hydac.com

IAG MAGNUM GmbHBessemerstr. 149084 OsnabrückWeb: www.iag-magnum.de

ITI GmbHSchweriner Str. 101067 DresdenWeb: www.itisim.com

JÖST GmbH + Co. KGGewerbestr. 28 - 3248249 DülmenWeb: www.joest.com

KAMAT PUMPEN GmbH & Co. KGSalinger Feld 1058454 WittenWeb: www.kamat.de

Kennametal AMSG GmbHMax-Planck-Str. 1361381 FriedrichsdorfWeb: www.kennametal.com

Komatsu Mining Germany GmbHBuscherhofstr. 1040599 DüsseldorfWeb: www.komatsu-mining.de

Maschinenfabrik KÖPPERNGmbH & Co. KGKönigsteiner Str. 245529 HattingenWeb: www.koeppern.com

Krummenauer GmbH & Co. KGWellesweilerstr. 9566538 NeunkirchenWeb: www.krummenauer.de

KSB AktiengesellschaftPumpen & Anwendungen Fest-stofftransportJohann-Klein-Str. 967227 FrankenthalWeb: www.ksb.com

Liebherr-Mining Equipment SAS49 rue Frédéric Hartmann68025 Colmar, FranceWeb: www.liebherr.com

Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KGGroßostheimer Str. 19863741 AschaffenburgWeb: www.linde-hydraulics.com

LOESCHE GmbHHansaallee 24340549 DüsseldorfWeb: www.loesche.com


marco Systemanalyse und En-twicklung GmbHHans-Böckler-Str. 285221 DachauWeb: www.marco.de

MATO Maschinen- u. Metallwaren-fabrikCurt Matthaei GmbH & Co. KGBenzstr. 16 - 2463165 MühlheimWeb: www.mato.de

MBE Coal & MineralsTechnology GmbHGottfried-Hagen-Str. 2051105 KölnWeb: www.mbe-cmt.com

MTU Friedrichshafen GmbHMaybachplatz 188045 FriedrichshafenWeb: www.mtu-online.com

J. D. NEUHAUS GmbH & Co. KGWindenstr. 2 - 458455 WittenWeb: www.jdngroup.com

Nilos GmbH & Co. KGReisholzstr. 1540721 HildenWeb: www.nilos.com

oddesse Pumpen- undMotorenfabrik GmbHAm Pappelwald 1239387 OscherslebenWeb: www.oddesse.de

Outotec (Filters) GmbHEschweilerstr. 101 - 10952477 AlsdorfWeb: www.outotec.com

Hermann PausMaschinenfabrik GmbHSiemensstr. 1 - 948488 EmsbürenWeb: www.paus.de

PFISTER WAAGEN BILANCIAI GMBHLinker Kreuthweg 986444 Affing-MühlhausenWeb: www.pfisterwaagen.de

PFREUNDT GmbHRobert-Bosch-Str. 546354 SüdlohnWeb: www.pfreundt.de

PLARAD Maschinenfabrik WagnerGmbH & Co. KGBirrenbachshöhe53804 MuchWeb: www.plarad.com

PRAKLA Bohrtechnik GmbHMoorbeerenweg 331228 PeineWeb: www.prakla.de

Pumpentechnik ErkrathGmbH + Co KGMax-Planck-Str. 2840699 ErkrathWeb: www.pumpentechnik-erkrath.de

Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbHMax-Eyth.Str. 1072631 AichtalWeb: www.pmsolid.com

Fritz Rensmann GmbH & Co.MaschinenfabrikBünnerhelfstr. 3344379 DortmundWeb: www.rensmann.com

RWE Power International RE GmbHStüttgenweg 250935 KölnWeb: www.rwepi.com

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SAMSON AGMESS- UND REGELTECHNIKWeismüllerstr. 360314 Frankfurtwww.samson.de

Sandvik Mining & ConstructionCentral Europe GmbHHafenstr. 28045356 EssenWeb: www.sandvik.com

Sandvik Mining & ConstructionCrushing Technology GmbHKölner Str. 9451702 BergneustadtWeb: www.sandvik.com

SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbHDorstener Str. 36044653 HerneWeb: www.schade-lagertechnik.de

Schaeffler TechnologiesAG & Co. KGGeorg-Schäfer-Straße 3097421 SchweinfurtWeb: www.schaeffler.de/rohstoffgewinnung_verarbeitung

Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinen-fabrik GmbHMagdeburger Str. 3745881 GelsenkirchenWeb: www.schalke.eu

Schopf Maschinenbau GmbHParkstr. 19 - 2173760 OstfildernWeb: www.schopf-mining.com

F. E. Schulte StrathausGmbH & Co. KGFördertechnik - Dichtungssys-temeRuntestr. 4259457 WerlWeb: www.schulte-strathaus.de

SIEMAG TECBERG GmbHKalteiche-Ring 28-3235708 HaigerWeb: www.siemag-tecberg.com

Siemens AGSchuhstr. 6091052 ErlangenWeb: www.siemens.com/mining

STEINERT Elektromagnetbau GmbHWiddersdorfer Str. 329 - 33150933 KölnWeb: www.steinert.de

GKN Stromag AGHansastr. 12059425 UnnaWeb: www.stromag.com

TAIMWESER GmbHKönigstr. 4532547 Bad OeynhausenWeb: www.taimweser.com

TAKRAF GmbHTorgauer Str. 33604347 LeipzigWeb: www.takraf.com

THIELE GmbH & Co. KGWerkstr. 358640 IserlohnWeb: www.thiele.de

Thomas Magnete GmbHSan Fernando 3557562 HerdorfWeb: www.thomas.magnete.com

ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbHBusiness Unit Materials HandlingErnst-Heckel-Str. 166386 St IngbertWeb: www.tk-materialshandling.com


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ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbHBusiness Unit MiningThyssenKrupp Allee 145143 EssenWeb: www.tk-mining.com

ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbHBusiness Unit ProcessingSchleebergstr. 1259320 EnnigerlohWeb: www.tk-processing.com

TLT-Turbo GmbHGleiwitzstr. 766482 ZweibrückenWeb: www.tlt-turbo.com

TML Technik GmbHDaimlerstr. 14 - 1640789 MonheimWeb: www.tml-technik.com

URACA GmbH & Co. KGSirchinger Str. 1572574 Bad UrachWeb: www.uraca.de

Vattenfall Europe Mining AGMining ConsultingVom-Stein-Str. 3903050 CottbusWeb: www.vattenfall.de

Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KGVoith-Str. 174564 CrailsheimWeb: www.voith.com

Maschinenfabrik Völkmann GmbHRohdesdiek 32-4244357 DortmundWeb: www.voelkmann.de

WELLER Pumpen GmbHWesticker Str. 44 - 4659174 KamenWeb: www.weller-pumpen.de

WILO SENortkirchenstr. 10044263 DortmundWeb: www.wilo.com

Wirtgen GmbH MaschinenbauReinhard-Wirtgen-Str. 253578 WindhagenWeb: www.wirtgen.de

ADVERTISING INDEX

Beumer Group ................................................................................................................................................................................VDMA 5

Erlau AG ........................................................................................................................................................................................VDMA 9

Hermann Paus..............................................................................................................................................................................VDMA 40

Kamat Pumpen GmbH & Co KG ....................................................................................................................................................VDMA 16

Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich Gmbh & Co KG ..............................................................................................................................VDMA 3

Liebherr ......................................................................................................................................................................................VDMA IFC

Voith Turbo ............................................................................................................................................................................VDMA 13, 15

Wirtgen Group ..............................................................................................................................................................................VDMA 19



AFTER carefully considering the fluctuations of the natural gas mar-ket in recent years, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Pupuk-Kaltim), In-donesia’s largest fertilizer producer, in Bontang, East Kalimantan, in2009 launched a project to diversify its fuel with a coal boiler. In addi-tion to adhering to government policies that encourage the use ofcoal as a substitute for natural gas, Pupuk-Kaltim executives notedsubstantial economic benefits.

One possible problem, of course, could be environmental impact.Addressing that, Pupuk-Kaltim chose to use only clean-coal tech-nologies, including a circulating fluidized-bed boiler, a Geometricacoal-storage dome and a continuous barge unloader. These tech-nologies had earned recognition for their successful use at the JEA

Northside power plant in Jacksonville, Florida, and help keep the en-vironment around the facility pristine.

After initial research on dome storage for coal, Mr Supriono, amechanical engineer with Pupuk-Kaltim, made the initial contactwith Geometrica in 2009. The dome was to be supported by a 10-metre-high, reinforced-concrete, perimeter-ring wall and wouldcover 40,000 tonnes of coal, plus a coal stacker and a portal re-claimer. Within a few days Geometrica’s sales manager CecilioZalba emailed Mr Supriono a proposal with preliminary drawingsand a guide specification for an 80 metre-diameter, circular, galva-nized-steel dome with aluminium cladding.

With that, plus input from possible alternate suppliers, Pupuk-Kaltimwrote a functional specification for the dome. The specification al-lowed the consideration of different dome-construction technologies,including concrete, aluminium and steel. The dome had to resist thespecified environmental loads, withstand corrosive attack from thehumid Kalimantan environment and help control explosion hazards,but also use technology that permitted fast construction by localcrews and without special equipment.

After carefully evaluating the various technologies and bids, projectbuilder PT Inti Karya Persada Technics (IKPT), selected Geometrica asthe dome supplier. “The contractor also received bids from manufac-turers of concrete domes and aluminium domes,” said Cecilio Zalba.“But the Geometrica solution offered more than 25% savings.”

By early 2011, the design had been approved in Indonesia andGeometrica had manufactured the components for the dome at itsplant in Monterrey, Mexico. Geometrica labelled, pre-sorted, andpackaged the components in the order required for assembly. Cratesof these materials were then loaded into containers for shipment tothe Port of Jakarta, Indonesia. From there, IKPT transported the con-tainers to the job site in Tanjung Harapan.

Construction of the dome and stacker/reclaimer began simultane-ously in June 2011. Assembly began at the top of the concrete walland progressed toward the apex. The assembly, by 20 workers, as-sisted by two Geometrica consultants, took two months.

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Shiny dome - clean coal ... and environment

SANDVIK Mining has introduced a new concept in ground reinforce-ment for underground hard rock mines that is faster and easier to in-stall than traditional systems, while giving better, stronger groundsupport. Designed and developed in Australia by Sandvik Mining’sNewcastle-based Rock Reinforcement Development manager MietekRataj, the Sandvik Mechanical Dynamic (MD) Rockbolt replaces arange of ground support systems, including resin bolts, stiff splitsetsand even cable bolting in some instances.

“The problem with resin bolting is that it’s not reliable due to therelatively large-diameter holes which have to be drilled in hard rockmines,” says Mietek Rataj. “This is because the resin is frequentlypoorly mixed so the bolts are not anchored properly in the rock.In addition, their installation can be very slow, and they are rela-

tively rigid two-pass bolts, so they are not suitable for dynamicground conditions.

“In contrast, the MD Rockbolt is a dynamic bolt which is able toyield and withstand changing ground conditions, it’s a one-pass sys-tem, with no need for any grouting,” he says.

Sandvik Mining’s product line manager for the MD Rockbolt,Peter Young, says the new system is a permanent bolt that is lesssensitive to poor ground conditions, such as weak rock mass. It iseasier to install, and there are far fewer issues during installation, sothat operators prefer working with it.

MD Rockbolts are galvanized, come in 2.4 and 3 metre lengths,and are rated to hold up to 30 tonnes. The system is particularlysuitable for moving ground conditions as it slides at high load.

Sandvik MD Rockbolt provides better support

A Geometrica dome under construction.

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GEOVIA, formerly known as Gemcom Software prior to its acquisitionin 2012 by Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, hasreleased GEOVIA Minex™ 6.2, which includes numerous enhance-ments plus the new Dump Scheduling and Haulage Planning module.

Designed to address the current economic concerns within the min-ing industry, the new Dump Scheduling and Haulage Planning moduleenables users to control one of the largest costs associated with themining of coal and other stratified deposits - the removal and haulage ofwaste. The module allows users to design waste dumps and haul roads,schedule the dumping of waste, calculate haulage cycle times and re-port on all aspects of the waste removal and haulage process.

“Minex’s dump scheduling and haulage planning tools allow us to eas-ily integrate into the mine scheduling process different scenarios for haul-ing waste from pits to dumps via haul roads. In addition, they enable usto analyse our major cost drivers and help us make better decisionsabout minimizing our operating costs. I am very happy with the releaseand with our investment in Minex. I am also looking forward to futuredevelopments and releases of Minex,” says PT Bayan Resources’ man-ager – Mine Planning and Development, David Delbridge.

Module highlights:• Haulage Planning: With advanced haulage planning, mine plan-

ners are able to effectively analyse and manage the efficiency oftruck cycle times and optimise truck fleet and haul road selectionfor improved cost control.

• Scenario Manager: In a single interface, users create various dump

scenarios and take control over the priority, sequence, and direc-tion in which dumps are filled.

• Advanced Reporting and Replaying: With advanced reporting,Minex provides mine planners with the flexibility to summarise themovement of waste and effectively communicate results to keystakeholders. Quick comparisons can be made between haulageoptions, leading to the identification and selection of the lowestcost and best alternatives.


GEOVIA Minex 6.2 now available

Product News

With the Minex 6.2 Dump Scheduling and Haulage Planning module, it is possible to

create various dump scenarios and take control over the priority, sequence, and di-

rection in which dumps are filled.


Next generation Boart Longyear surface rigBOART Longyear has released its next generation surface explorationdrill rig, the LF™120A. The semi-automated drill rig features a hands-free operating system and self-monitoring technology that providesincreased safety and gains in overall productivity.

“The LF120A was designed for drilling contractors who want to dif-ferentiate their exploration program by focusing on safety, informationand an advanced-level of automation,” says Boart Longyear globalproduct manager Sid Gaitonde.

CANBUS technology is central to the LF120A for self-monitoringand efficient rig operation. The system’s large LCD screen leads op-erators through start-up, drilling and troubleshooting procedures.

Common mistakes are avoided when the system alerts operatorswhen defined parameters are broken. Self-monitoring valves providereal-time status information to operators.

“The intelligent PC-based operating system displays bit weight andlanding indication while also reducing fuel consumption by about 25%compared to similar rigs in its class,” says Sid Gaitonde. “This allows forreduced fuel related costs, less pollution/carbon footprint and makes lifeeasier in remote areas where access for fuel trucks is difficult.”

The LF120A surface coring rig also features the industry’s first trulyhands-free rod handling system which comprises a rod handler, anauto-adjusting breakout tool and an innovative hoist plug spinner.

“Separating the operator from the moving parts of the drill is a keyfocus for Boart Longyear, as it decreases the probability for accidentson site,” adds Sid Gaitonde. “The rod handler incorporates a wireless

remote, which places the operator in a safe position.”The rod handler provides 270-degree pick-up capability, 2-metre

height adjustment, 180-degree rollover and 100-degree slew. Thislevel of flexibility allows the handler to access the rod supply regard-less of where rods are located around the drill.

The rod handler is equipped with fail-safe jaws and level sensorsthat limit release positions and prevent accidental rod drops. TheLF120A easily manages both 3-metre and 6-metre rods in sizes rang-ing from BQ to PQ.


Product News

Boart Longyear’s LF120A surface drill rig features a hands-free operating system

and self-monitoring technology.


THE Gunpowder Aberfoyle Copper Mine successfully uses a total of18 Verderflex hose pumps - 14 x VF65s & 4 x VF125s - at their cop-per ore mining plant in Queensland, Australia. Using the pumps andprocesses enables the mine operators to recover more than 98% ofthe copper from the base ore.

At the mine copper ore is crushed and milled, and mixed in a tankwith the leaching solution. Copper dissolves into the leaching solutionand is then electrolytically recovered. The residual solution still con-tains a significant amount of copper and is separated from theleachate using a vacuum belt filter, prior to heating under pressureand being autoclave mixed to increase copper recovery rate.

Two variable speed Verderflex VF125 Peristaltic Hose pumps, fit-ted with 37kW motors and with a nominal speed of 17rpm but ca-pable of flow rates up to 50 cubic metres/hour (25rpm), pump thepost autoclave solution from the thickener/clarifier into leachresidue storage tanks.

When one VF125’s hose fails, a standby Verderflex VF65 starts upand the other VF125 is temporally speeded up to maintain the sameflow as was delivered with the pair of VF125 pumps, resulting inprocess continuity.

Filter feed pumpsTwo VF125 pumps, and a stand by VF65 pump, pump the 40% solidcontent slurry from the storage tank over a vacuum filter again. In athree-stage process the liquid is treated in leach thickeners (CCD1,CCD2 and CCD3) to remove the solids from the solution. Each thick-ener has two VF65 pumps to pump the solids back in the leachresidue filter storage tank. Finally, the thickened solution is pumpedinto the electrolyte units.

Five other frequency-controlled VF65s, with 7.5 kW motors andnominal speeds of 28rpm, are used across the plant and a furtherVerderflex VF65 pump acts as a standby spare.For information visit www.verderflex.com or email [email protected]


Verderflex Peristaltic Hose

pumps move slurry

Product News

Verderflex Peristaltic Hose pumps are used at the Gunpowder Aberfoyle Copper Mine

in Queensland.



Supplier News

Beumer opens Thai buildingBEUMER Group is celebrating the opening of a new factory buildingin Thailand’s eastern Chachoengsao Province. At the opening cere-mony German ambassador Rolf Schulze congratulated Beumer oncompletion of the construction and praised the commitment shownby the Beckum-based family company in the Kingdom of Thailand.The 2000 square metre premises will allow Beumer to increase pro-duction for the Asian market.

BEUMER Group chairman and CEO Dr Christoph Beumer empha-sised at the opening that the success of the project should be greatlyattributed to the close cooperation of the Beckum and Thailand teamsacross borders and continents.

BEUMER aims to offer more support for customers in this high-growthmarket and continue its practice of strategic internationalization. In Cha-choengsao Province, the intralogistics specialist has created a localpresence with the founding of Beumer (Thailand) Co Ltd enabling a fastdelivery of spare parts and optimized service for the benefit of cus-tomers. "I am convinced that, with the construction of a new building inAsia, we have done exactly the right step to keep up with the growth ofthe South East Asian market,” said Christoph Beumer.

The building, with a production area and an office area of 1000square metres each, was finished in less than a year. It accommo-dates 80 workplaces in total. From now on, established Beumer prod-ucts will be prepared for delivery and components will bemanufactured locally according to Beumer quality standards.

The above accomplishments allowed the German ambassador to

remark that Beumer Group's success is a direct manifestation of thesolid German-Thai relations which have existed for more than 150years. Thailand is among the fastest growing economies in Asia. Theconstruction industry specifically is experiencing exponential growthwhich is driving Beumer’s focus primarily on the cement industry. Withthe new location, the intralogistics specialist continues to grow bothstrategically and internationally, reinforcing its position as a globaltechnological leader and innovator.

The new Beumer Group building in eastern Thailand includes a production hall and

administration wing.



NSK works with global mining machinery manufacturers and end-usersin the field to co-develop a package of tough, high-performance bear-ings that offer a longer service life under demanding mining conditions.NSK’s innovative designs begin with market-leading materials andunique heat treatment technologies developed in-house to produce balland roller bearings, that out-perform customer expectations.

NSK’s ASEAN mining manager Mark Davies says, “One of the keyfactors in the enhanced performance of NSK bearings range is thedevelopment of industry-leading materials technology, in particularNSK’s Tough Steel range. Bearings made from varying Tough Steelgrades are designed to out-perform normal bearings in contaminated,high temperature or inadequate lubrication conditions. Surface orien-tated fatigue and material wear from contaminated lubricant is a com-mon failure mode in mining and the fine particle wear resistance ofthe Tough Steel increases operational life substantially.

As NSK’s Tough Steel technology can be used in any bearing de-sign, NSK can tailor a solution to each application’s mode of failure,providing an effective counter-measure to the operating conditionscausing the reduced operating life. NSK has developed varyinggrades of Tough Steel for heavy industries and this technology is incommon use throughout the world today, in applications such asslurry pump barrels, vibrating screen mechanisms, longwall AFCsprockets, dragline gearboxes and coal pulverizers.

In addition to Tough Steel material technology, another NSK devel-opment in standard material bearings is NSK HPS (High Performance

Series). This technology, originally developed in small to medium sizeSpherical Roller bearings, has been extended to the brass caged CAseries large Spherical Rollers Bearings and Vibration Spec SRB.

Mark Davies says, “It is expected that the new series of HPS bear-ings will give users many benefits such as reducing maintenancecost, down-sizing product design and saving energy. It exceeds thelimits of conventional bearings in terms of a longer operating life andlimiting speeds, helping deliver the high levels of reliability requiredin mining projects.”

Developed for applications with heavy or shock loads, of the typeencountered in jaw and cone crushers, NSK’s CA series of double-row spherical roller bearings are manufactured with a machinedbrass cage to combat the effects of vibration, operating fatigue,wear and corrosion. NSK has further extended the HPS range intoharsh vibrating applications through the NSK CAM-VS series ofspherical roller bearings. The vibratory specification builds upon theextended load and life benefits of the standard CA construction withan optimized design that provides improved fatigue strength againstthe vibration and shock-load conditions encountered on screens,feeders and compactors.

Extra capacity Cylindrical Roller bearings also provide improved per-formance benefits in extending operating life and speed rating. NSK’sEW/EM series of cylindrical roller bearings lead the market in innova-tive design. The EW series features a pressed steel cage and the EMseries a one-piece machined brass cage.

Supplier News

Longer life bearings from NSK



TRIO Engineered Products has made a major expansion into supply-ing crushers, screens and feeders to the mining industry over the pastfive years, particularly in fast track heap leach crushing and screen-ing operations around the globe. TRIO has been able to provide highvalue plant solutions and a compressed development time from con-ception through commissioning that is unmatched in the industry.

Founded in 1998, TRIO has grown from a supplier of smaller vi-brating and washing equipment to a world-class manufacturer with acomplete line of crushing, vibrating, washing and conveying equip-ment. TRIO combines superior manufacturing techniques with inno-vative engineering to generate an extensive range of durable,productive, and reliable equipment for the aggregate and mining in-dustries around the world. The company's sales and engineeringteams work closely with customers to provide single machines, par-tial systems or complete plant solutions.

Clients have enjoyed the benefits of TRIO’s vast array of pre-designedengineered drawings for modular structures. These bolt-together mod-ules enable adjusting structure elevations, tailoring access points andmaintenance platforms, providing feed and discharge options, and in-corporating smart, user-friendly features into each plant design.

TRIO’s material handling products included portable radial stack-ers, telescoping conveyors, overland conveyors and feed systems.These products often utilize our line of components including idlers,pulleys, shafts and reducers.

TRIO’s main corporate office and warehousing facility is just outsideLos Angeles in Irwindale, California. The warehouse and yard housesparts and equipment for distributors and end-users in the Western Hemi-sphere. The staff of more than 60 includes engineering, sales, technicalsupport, field service, customer service, aftermarket, and accounting per-sonnel. The US manufacturing facility is in Adelanto, also just outside LA.This facility sits on 10 acres and employs a staff of more than 40 in engi-neering, machining, fabrication, assembly and logistics functions.

Supplier News

TRIO - building solutions together

APPLUS Velosi JDA is a leading provider of manpower services to in-dustry throughout Indonesia. With an international history of 23 yearsApplus Velosi JDA is a company well entrenched in the mineral re-sources industry. The company supports industry by increasing labourefficiency and productivity through the utilization of a skilled contractlabour force.

In addition to its primary contract labour services PT JDA is wellknown for its international recruitment capability and with its Australiansister company has a long successful track record in making key po-sition placements into organisations around the globe.

The Velosi Group was founded in 1982 in Malaysia to provide asset in-tegrity, quality assurance, quality control and various other engineeringservices to leading oil and gas companies worldwide. In March 2011Velosi joined the Applus+ Group, after the Spanish company, togetherwith The Carlyle Group, completed the acquisition of the company. Asa result Velosi is now part of a comprehensive group of inspection serv-ice companies; each of which has its own set of expertise areas.For all manpower consulting services contact Applus Velosi JDA on +62 217590 4835 or email us [email protected] and one of our con-sulting team will contact you.

Manpower from Applus Velosi JDA

A TRIO-sourced two-stage metallic ore crushing plant. The plant consists of a TF4616

Feeder, CT3042 Jaw Crusher, TIO6203 Inclined Screen, TC51 Cone Crusher, and an

assortment of transfer, feed, portable jump and stationary overland conveyors, along

with a separate surge feed hopper.



ATLAS Copco now has an electric option in its Scooptram under-ground loader line. As the third major revision of the model, the newScooptram EST1030 offers a 10-tonne capacity yet consumes about40% less energy, produces 40% less heat and has a lower noise levelduring general operation than its diesel counterparts.

The 180hp, 60Hz, three-phase electric motor comes with overloadprotection and ground check. The Funk DF 250 electronic transmis-sion provides automatic power shift from its integral converter withinching control for smooth and precise shifting.

Atlas Copco global projects manager Lars Bergkvist says, “Asmines go deeper, heat and ventilation become more and moreproblematic. At the same time, the price of fuel is rising. We stronglybelieve that efficient electric vehicles will be the key in future min-ing operations.”

He says the use of cable-powered electric loaders is not new in un-derground mining, since electric motors require much less ventilationthan combustion engines. However, electric cable has always beenprone to excessive wear in the underground environment and proneto cuts and abrasion where it wraps around corners. The new systemwill lay the cable down in the travel path and reel it back up matchingthe machine’s speed. This will significantly increase the cable’s life,protecting it from abrasion and minimizing tension.

With a maximum operating temperature of 52 degrees Celsius

and well-protected hydraulic hoses and hot surfaces, the EST1030produces less heat than non-electric models. Key safety features ofthe Scooptram EST1030 include spring-applied, hydraulically re-leased (SAHR) brakes and ROPS/FOPS-approved cabin features.The Atlas Copco foot box provides increased leg room and er-gonomic control placements.

Supplier News

New Atlas Copco electric Scooptram

PT ATLAS Copco Nusantara has received three safety awards fromvarious Indonesian government entities for the safety record at itsSangatta branch.

On February 12 the Mayor of East Kutai, Kalimantan, presentedSangatta branch with the 2013 Safety Award for successfully imple-menting the Safety and Occupational Health program. The award rec-ognized the branch for having 1,431,836 accident-free man hoursduring a 10-year period from 2002. It was the third consecutive yearthe Sangatta branch has received this award.

PT Atlas Copco Nusantara also received the Safety Award for 2012

at provincial level on February 14 during the Ceremony of Safety andOccupational Health at Melak, West Kutai. It was presented by Gov-ernor of East Kalimantan Dr H Awang Faroek Ishak.

On April 30 in Jakarta, the third award was presented by Minister ofLabor and Transmigration Dr HA Muhaimin Iskandar for havingworked 1,431,856 hours without any lost-time injuries. This awardwas given only after an exhaustive selection process that began atthe departments of Labor and Transmigration in Kutai Timur in Kali-mantan Timur Province and went all the way through the IndonesiaDepartment of Labor and Transmigration.

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The new Atlas Copco Electric Scooptram EST1030 incorporates a patented new cable

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Exploration Spotlight

WHILE benefiting from record production at Surda Copper Projectin Jharkhand state, India Resources has embarked on an Aus$4.5million exploration program with the bulk of activities taking placeat the Aravalli base metals site in Rajasthan. Exploration at BonaiIron Ore Project and Amil diamond tenement is also continuing.

The company is spending almost Aus$3 million on the Aravallisite, which comprises three components – Aravalli Lead-Zinc Mi-ning Licence (ML), Sathuddia Copper Prospecting Licence appli-cation and the newly accepted but yet to be executed Hindolipolymetallic base metals reconnaissance permit. The Aravalli MLwas applied for after expiration of the Aravalli reconnaissance per-mit. India Resources’ wholly-owned subsidiary Crown Mining Pri-vate Limited has the preferential right to be granted the ML.

Crown has applied for the ML over lead-zinc mineralization alongthe same mineralized trend as Vedanta’s Sindesar Khurd and Ra-jpura Dariba mines. India Resources has reported an explorationtarget in the range of 95-135 million tonnes at between 2.2-4.5%zinc and 0.7-1.8% lead.

The ore body is of a SENEX style similar to Mt Isa in Australia.India Resources believes the resource estimate is expected to beupgraded substantially in both tonnes and grade by further drillingand that higher grade zones can be identified. The zones are es-sentially continuous with the adjacent Sindesar and Dariba mines

where grades in excess of 10% lead plus zinc are being mined byVedanta’s subsidiary Hindustan Zinc. Vedanta continues to haveexploration success. According to its 2012 annual report the JORCresources plus reserves remaining for these mines are 52.3 milliontonnes @ 7.4% zinc and 2.0% lead at Dariba, and 81.4 million ton-nes @ 4.6% zinc and 2.9% lead at Sindesar.

As well as the Aravalli expenditure, India Resources is spending$905,000 on iron ore exploration at Bonai and $573,000 on dia-mond exploration at Amil.

India Resources recorded its highest ever production at Surdaduring the March quarter, with 119,595 tonnes of copper ore. Thisincluded record monthly production for March with 42,614 tonnesof ore, which resulted after the company implemented strategiesto streamline hoisting constraints. The company hopes to increasehoisting by another 10-15% by July, as the production contract hasbeen extended to May 2017.

India Resources’ managing director Arvind Misra says, “We havealso won a US$45 million contract for the development and opera-tion of the Rakha copper mine, after we put in a bid as a consor-tium with KOPEX-PBSz. The scope of work includes dewatering,rehabilitation, shaft sinking, installation of new winders for oldshafts, development of haulages, and drives and crosscuts overthe next five years.”

India Resources boosts Aravalli exploration

FLINDERS Mines will undertake a new drilling program targetingBrockman Iron Deposit (BID) mineralization at its Pilbara Iron OreProject (PIOP) in Western Australia. Having already defined a BIDexploration target of between 110 to 160 million tonnes at 55-58%iron in addition to the existing 917 million tonne resource, this hasnow been increased to 180 to 280 million tonnes at 55 to 58% iron.

Flinders will immediately move to drill test and convert areas of in-terpreted mineralization to increase the current 917 million tonneresource. BID mineralization within the PIOP carries significant ad-vantages to the company in future project economics.

Scoping studies have indicated the potential for savings in bothinitial project capital expenditure and operating costs. This is pre-dominantly due to the BID mineralization being direct shipping ore(DSO) quality requiring no beneficiation. In addition, this BID mate-rial would likely be mined at a lower strip ratio than other parts ofthe PIOP global resource. Flinders anticipates that a high proportionof any increase to BID ore tonnage will directly translate into the sa-leable ore inventory.

Flinders first recognized BID on the flanks of the existing channeliron mineralization in 2010 and has been investigating the potentialfor further BID mineralization over the unexplored areas betweenthe channels. The BID targets are based on proximity to known BIDmineralization within the valleys, and the relationship between in-terpreted geological stratigraphy and structural zones.

A 2011 drilling program generated outstanding near-surface BID

mineralization up to 54 metres in thickness and around 80% ofholes drilled to date have intersected greater than 4 metres of BIDmineralization. The initial BID exploration target was based on exi-sting mapping and ore quality of between 55 and 58% iron. Thistarget size assumed a specific gravity (SG) of 2.52, as determinedfrom diamond drill core samples of BID, and a conservative rangein thickness from 9 to 13 metres based on known intersections.

Following completion of additional field mapping, Flinders has confir-med the presence of 6sqkm of priority BID targets across the Blacks-mith tenement. As a result the new global exploration target for BIDmineralization has increased to a range of 180-280 million tonnes.

Drilling targets at Flinders Mines’ Pilbara Iron Ore Project in Western Australia.

Flinders drilling targets BID mineralization

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