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Rio Tinto Doubles Driverless Truck Fleet

By doubling its fleet of driverless trucks at its iron ore mining operations in the state of Western Australia, Rio Tinto will increase its production to 333 million tonnes annually by the end of 2015. The haul trucks are to be deployed in the largest mine site in the Pilbara region at Yandicoogina.

From Rio Tinto plc 8 Jun 2011

Mining Boom Sees New Equipment Delays - Reconditioning Becomes A More Viable Option

Along with the boom in the Australian mining industry has come an increased stress on plant and equipment. Delays of up to two years on new equipment orders mean that many companies don’t have the option of retiring machines – many are now be required to work well past what would otherwise be considered their serviceable life.

31 May 2011

Quia Resources Mobilizes Two Drill Rigs at San Lucas Property

Quia Resources has mobilized two drill rigs to its San Lucas property that is situated in Colombia for the preliminary diamond drill program totaling 5,000 m.

30 May 2011

Whiting Oil and Gas Purchase Automated Petrography System from FEI

FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) and Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, announce the purchase of QEMSCAN® automated petrography and Helios NanoLab™ DualBeam™ technology for Whiting’s new rock lab in its Denver, Colorado headquarters.

26 May 2011

Use of Overlay Wearplate in Mining Haulpak Trucks Results in Increased Revenues for Operators

The NanoSteel® Company, a leader in coating technologies, today announced results from an overlay wear plate application on a mining haulpak truck which has increased service life by a factor greater than four and resulted in significant operating cost savings and increased revenue for a mining customer.

26 May 2011

Sentry Petroleum Finalizes Agreement with Depco Drilling

Sentry Petroleum has inked the final agreement with Depco Drilling to supply a drilling rig and workforce for its future coal seam gas drilling campaign in ATP 862 and 864 in Queensland Australia.

26 May 2011

Uranium North Resources Moves Fuel and Drilling Supplies to Amer Lake Project

Uranium North Resources is exploring five gold properties, in which two properties are for drilling.

24 May 2011

Baja Mining Begins Surface Mining Activities at Boleo Project

Baja Mining has begun surface mining at its Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project, which is situated near Santa Rosalia in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

23 May 2011

Alto Group Holdings Announces Final Equipment Arrival to Production Site in Northern Sonora

Alto Group Holdings, a new mining and commodities trading firm based in New York, has completed the border crossing and the last equipment for Phase I exploration has arrived to the production spot in Northern Sonora, Mexico.

19 May 2011

Antrim Energy Signs Drill Rig Contract for East Fyne Field

Antrim Energy is a global oil and gas exploration and production firm based in Calgary in Canada. It has announced that the Fyne Field joint venture, in which Antrim holds 35.1%, is now purchasing the site study information and has signed a drill rig contract for the East Fyne appraisal/expansion well at Block 21/28a in UK Central North Sea.

From Crown Point Energy Inc. 19 May 2011