Mines

Komatsu - Mon January 17, 2022

Battery-powered Joy 02ESV Scoops Offer Operator Comfort, Longer Time Between Charges

Scoops are true utility workhorses in soft rock mine. They handle multiple tasks, including maintenance, re-supply, clean-up and rock dusting. To help get the job done, Komatsu's redesigned battery-powered Joy 02ESV scoops offer excellent operator comfort and robust time between charges, according to the company....

U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs - Wed April 24, 2019

EPA to Award $220M for Mine Cleanup on Navajo Nation

U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to award multiple contracts worth an estimated $220 million over a five-year period to address the legacy of uranium contamination from abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation area....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 19, 2018

MDT Changes Course of $25M Road Project Due to Old Olive Branch Mine

When the Montana Department of Transportation set out to reroute some outdated stretches of Interstates 15-90, it encountered an unexpected landmark. Located between the westbound and eastbound bridges, both built in the 1960s and considered "functionally obsolete" was an old, abandoned mine, dubbed the Olive Branch mine....

Fluor - Wed August 08, 2018

Fluor to Design, Build Quellaveco Copper Project in Peru

Fluor Corporation announced it has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management of Anglo American's Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru....

Nicole Foy – Associated Press - Mon July 02, 2018

Sinkholes, Poison Gas, Dynamite: Inside Abandoned Mines

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) A century-old gold mine is a curious place, and that's a problem for those whose job it is to find bats and blasting caps as worrisome as the public finds them to be wondrous. When the 2015 fire in Owyhee County finally burned out, a team of experts from the Bureau of Land Management followed closely behind the wildland firefighters assessing the safety of public land known as the Owyhee Front....

Emily Buenzle - Wed May 09, 2018

Federal Funds Help State Clean Up Abandoned Mines

One state's mines are in for some spring cleaning. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said it plans to spend $55 million on cleaning up abandoned mines across the state. Projects will include:Treating polluted water from the mines;Stabilizing mine lands that have been deemed unsafe; andPutting out mine fires that have been burning underground, State Impact reported....

Wed August 02, 2017

BHP Selects Fluor for Australian Mining Project

Fluor Corporation announced Aug. 2, that it was awarded a project and construction management services contract by BHP for the South Flank iron ore project located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia....

Matt Olberding -Lincoln Journal Star - Wed July 12, 2017

Company Predicts Nebraska Mine Project Could Be Worth $17.6B

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) The proposed rare metals mine in southeast Nebraska would produce $17.6 billion over its lifetime. That's the conclusion of a feasibility study released by NioCorp Investments Ltd., the company hoping to make the mine a reality....