MINING.COM Staff Writer

Australia has already lost market share to international competitors in the race to meet the strongest global growth in demand for minerals and energy in a generation and could lose more if capacity constraints are not addressed, new research has found. The research by Access Economics, which was commissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia [...]

Metso Minerals has inaugurated a new Research Center in Tampere. Activity at the new center will further strengthen Metso’s global knowledge base in crushing and screening technology, and research and testing services which benefit global construction and mining markets will be on offer.

An official poll was conducted May 10 by the well regarded Ecuadorian pollster group, Informe Confidencial. The polls were conducted in both the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito and the country’s largest city, Guayaquil. The question asked was ‘Weighing things, do you think the development of mining is good or bad for the country?’ Over [...]