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Conveyor Belt Fastener for High-Impact Applications By Flexco
DOWNERS GROVE, IL -- New Flexco R9S, now the biggest size available in the Flexco SR Scalloped-Edge rivet-hinged conveyor belt fastener system, features a high-strength 8-rivet attachment, greater reachback, thicker plates and larger hinge pins for longer life on higher-tension belts with mechanical fastener ratings up to 2000 PIW (350 kN/m).
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Satellite Images of Mines and Properties Now Available
Detailed satellite images of mines and properties are now available from InfoMine's comprehensive database of companies and properties, InfoMine db. Access to this new feature is free to all users. Links to satellite images are available for all mines and properties where we have latitude and longitude information - approximately half of the 10,000 properties listed on InfoMine db.
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Gold mines in recovery mode
Johannesburg - Gold producer Gold Fields (GFI) says its mining operations are not yet in full production as some workers have still not returned to work.
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Manila seeks aid in mining
THE Philippines is looking for Australian investment dollars and technical assistance to help revitalise a mining industry that has been blighted for years by legal uncertainty and red tape.
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Big PGM mine makeovers are under way
Two of South Africas largest platinum workhorses are undergoing makeovers.
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Newmont chasing more African deals
NEWMONT Minings success in Ghana, where it has two new gold mines under development, has whetted the US gold heavyweights appetite for further exploration in West Africa.
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De Beers pledges $500m, 3-year Namibia investment
Diamond giant De Beers, 45% owned by Anglo American, plans to spend 3,2-billion Namibian dollars on unspecified investments in Namibia over the next three years, Chairperson Nicky Oppenheimer said.
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Way finally being cleared for coal-terminal expansion
South Africa's coal-miners are on track to export more coal after an announcement that Spoornet would be going ahead with its plan to increase the output on the Mpumalanga-to-Richards Bay line by about 16-million tons, with the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) to be expanded to mirror the line's new nameplate capacity.
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Industrial valve sales to reach $50bn by 2010
Sales of industrial valves worldwide were just under $40 billion in 2004. By 2010, yearly sales will exceed $50 billion, reports the McIlvaine Company in its continually-up- dated Industrial Valves: World Markets online report.
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MINE PROFILE
Nchwanning, Northern Cape
The Nchwaning mine was established in 1972, while the No 2 shaft came into production in 1981. The new shaft complex at the Nchwaning No 3 mine was commissioned in May 2004. The existing plant at Nchwaning mine was upgraded and will process the manganese ore from the new mine through a conveyor system that will be located inside a 2,2 kilometre inclined shaft, one of the largest of its kind in South Africa.
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FOCUS ON STANDARDS
NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
The goal of
this handbook is to help scientists and engineers incorporate
statistical methods in thier work as efficiently as
possible
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Beltcon
on the Web
The South African Materials Handling Beltcon Conference papers
are available on the SAIMH web site. Beltcon 12 coming soon.
www.saimh.co.za
