ArcelorMittal is today meeting with its European Works Council to present voluntary separation programmes to be launched across the group. This is to help achieve the company’s stated aim of reducing SG&A (Selling, General and Administrative) expenditure by US$1 billion in response to the current... Read more..
European Goldfields Limited announce further progress of its Certej project in Romania. Technical Feasibility Study now approved and Mining Permit updated The National Agency for Mineral Resources (”NAMR”) has approved the Technical Feasibility Study for the project recognising the quality... Read more..
Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC) announced that its worldwide mill services division has been awarded a new ten-year contract valued at more than $60 million over its duration to provide on-site environmental services to ArcelorMittal’s massive Dunkirk steel works... Read more..
Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation announced that it has secured a new contract with global steel producer Tata Steel to provide rental scaffolding throughout a two-year plant maintenance cycle at Tata’s state-of-the-art Jamshedpur steel works in northeastern India. The contract,... Read more..
World Gold Council (WGC) has announced the appointment of Aram Shishmanian as incoming Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Shishmanian will join WGC for a transitional period in mid-October, while current CEO, James E. Burton, will continue to lead the organisation until mid-December when he will leave to return... Read more..
At the 14th European Microscopy Conference opening today, Bruker AXS Microanalysis announced the European launch of several new products and options for Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based materials analysis. The innovative new QUANTAX CrystAlignTM system for SEM-based crystallographic analysis... Read more..
Lake Victoria Mining Company, Inc. (OTC BB:LVCA.OB) is recruiting a new team with international business, geology and finance experience. Joining the board of directors is Ahmed A. Magoma and Heidi Kalenuik who has also been appointed and accepted as Secretary and Treasurer, effective immediately. Mr.... Read more..
Sierra Leone Projects: Mexivada Mining Corp. (MNV.V) has begun diamond mining near Koidu Town, in the heart of the famous, world class Kono mining district of Sierra Leone. Hundreds of millions of US Dollars worth of diamonds are produced from the district every year, including many fancy-colored stones.... Read more..
Volta Resources Inc. report more significant copper-gold intercepts from the last drill holes of its 2008 diamond and reverse circulation (”RC”) drilling program at Volta’s Gaoua copper-gold porphyry project in southern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The latest drilling significantly expands... Read more..
UC Hub Group, Inc. announce the companies have executed a formal asset acquisition and assignment agreement whereby UC Hub Group, Inc. will acquire certain mining assets from Tri-Star Holdings for stock in UC Hub Group, Inc. These mining contracts and assets include those in Arizona referred to as COS... Read more..