Mining’s backroom hall of fame – Part II
March 21 - 27, 2012
THE product is software, a mill relining machine, a unique offroad truck, a mine digital communication box. The value is in the ‘smarts’ that makes each product the best in the world. Australian mining knowledge and experience packaged into a shape that sells – globally.
Mining’s backroom hall of fame – Part I
March 14 - 20, 2012
AUSTRALIAN mining hall of fame discussions invariably focus on people who find things, or who build mines, not the ones who solve some of the industry’s big technical problems. Names like Bob Johnson, Bob Muirhead, Gary Zamel, Jim Cooper, John Russell, David Noon, and Peter and Wade Salfinger. The thing is, their ideas will soon be generating more than half a billion dollars a year in sales – a windfall return on the country’s mining IP.
Mining a portal to ‘smarter’ future
March 14 - 20, 2012
JOHN Russell doesn’t have a problem with car manufacturing subsidies. He believes the sector is a great training ground for something Australia does especially well, and that is convert mining-related inventions into world-class, niche manufacturing activity.
Vietnam ready to welcome Australian suppliers
February 29 - March 6, 2012
WHILE India and China grab a lot of the headlines, there is another Asian dragon in the wings.
Vale sponsors Australian mining supply mission
February 15 - 21, 2012
AUSTRALIAN mining supply industry group Austmine will partner with Vale and Trade & Investment Queensland to take a trade mission party to visit Brazil mines and meet with industry executives in April.
Supply sector consolidation continues
January 25 - 31, 2012
THE company whose name seems to be everywhere at the moment – at least where there is a materials-handling equipment order in mining bulk materials – has put a $A200 million offer on the table for Australia’s Ludowici that has seen the 159-year-old ASX-listed company’s share price double in a week.
MST on global recruitment drive
January 25 - 31, 2012
THE Australian mine communications technology company Mine Site Technologies has its sights on further international expansion after making a raft of recent senior personnel appointments.
MST buys Nixon Communications
December 15 - 21, 2011
MINE communications specialist Mine Site Technologies, which won the backing of Macquarie Capital earlier this year, has acquired Queensland-based Nixon Communications for an undisclosed sum.
Mining unearths new value
December 8 - 14, 2011
PEOPLE who think mining is just quarrying and Australia a quarry fail to see the reality of mining and the opportunities it brings.
Sedgman wins national export award
December 8 - 14, 2011
AUSTRALIAN mining engineering firm Sedgman has been named as the country’s 2011 Exporter of the Year, chosen from the winners of 12 national categories.
'Resources curse' or untapped opportunity?
December 1 - 7, 2011
A REPORT on the development of Australia’s mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector suggests the sector is at “a key stage of evolution”, and that it must get better at promoting itself and become more familiar to policy makers.
New territory for Australian suppliers
October 13 - 19, 2011
AUSTRALIAN mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector group Austmine expects to sign an MOU with Uzbekistan’s mining agency to facilitate closer relations between the two countries following a recent visit by Austmine members co-ordinated with help from Rio Tinto.
Nice to METS you
October 6 - 12, 2011
THE author of a new report on Australia’s mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector sees a nascent economic force on a fast growth track. A question that he is now asking – and he’s not the only one – is, does it need public policy nurturing or will the tough love of the mining industry be enough to see it reach a new level of maturity?
Minnow, giant join forces
October 6 - 12, 2011
SMALL Australian manufacturer Gekko Systems has assumed ‘major’ status with its selection by the country’s biggest gold producer as a research and development partner.
Philippines open to Australian innovation
October 6 - 12, 2011
OCTOBER 1: THE Philippines already offers plenty of opportunities right through the mine life cycle for Australian mining equipment, technology and services supply firms, but if the country can get right its political risk and investment settings it could be fertile ground indeed for METS companies in the medium term.
Australians descend on Arequipa
September 29 - October 5, 2011
A LARGE contingent of Australia-Latin America Business Council and Austmine members were visible among the 1140 exhibitors at the Peru mining tradeshow Extemin and related technical conference Perumin which were held simultaneously in the southern city of Arequipa in mid-September.
Trading places
September 22 - 28, 2011
DURING the early 1980s Jim Nylander played a small, albeit significant, part in helping Australia enter the West African mining scene.
Concentrate on winners, not woes
September 15 - 21, 2011
WHEN it comes to manufacturing in Australia, we are having the wrong conversation. We are closed for business before our doors are even opened, and our negative outlook is breeding a culture of failure which will lead us to a similar end.
Austrade expands Colombia focus
September 15 - 21, 2011
THE Australian Government has given Colombia’s improved business and political climate a tick, announcing the opening next year of a new Austrade office in Bogota.
In brief: MAPLA, EFIC, Leighton, Thiess
September 15 - 21, 2011
FIVE Australian delegates plus local Chilean staff of Australian companies were among some 400 attendees at the recent MAPLA and Mantemin maintenance and reliability engineering conferences at Antofagasta, Chile.