IFAT 2024

Around 130 highly specialized professionals followed the invitation of the Institute of Mining at TU Bergakademie Freiberg to the 4th International Colloquium on “Non-Blasting Rock Extraction”...

T‌he mining machinery industry in Germany expects a decline in sales of 10 to 15 % in 2020. Nevertheless, the industry is optimistic about the future, because only state-of-the-art mining technology...

M‌ining machinery manufacturers from Germany are back on track, with incoming orders increasing by 45 % in the first half of the year. Closer cooperation with Australia is set to bring further growth....

Mining machinery manufacturers producing in Germany have achieved a turnaround. After falling earnings for four years in a row, the industry now anticipates a black zero for the trend in sales in...

Change is pervasive and demands adaptation. With declining ore grade and low commodity prices, the mining industry has had to adapt to stay competitive. As merger and acquisitions opportunities and...

1 Creating the largest open-pit mine in Mexico Goldcorp Inc., headquartered in Vancouver (British Columbia), is one of the world’s fastest growing gold producers. The company has a total of...

In a 3-year development project, Metso has fundamentally reworked its range of mining screens (Fig.). Besides meeting the specific requirements of the mining industry for higher feed rates, greater...

T‌he Truffer AG extract Vals Quartzite in their own quarry, and have set themselves the goal to carry out all further processing steps, up to the finished product, exclusively in the quarry in Vals....

The polar region north of the Arctic Circle has sparked renewed interest among mining companies, as it holds so-called “world class” deposits of diamonds, gold and base metals. The problems and prospects there are described in this report on the basis of numerous projects. High standards have to be applied in these projects...

Around 100 experts from business, research and politics met for the 10th Saxon Raw Material Day in Dresden on May 25, 2016 in a conference ...