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Hindustan Copper to augment output

Hindustan Copper (HCL) has chalked out a strategy to improve production capacity to up to 20 million tonne per annum by 2024.

Siemens electrical equipment for underground copper mine in Mongolia

Siemens is undertaking the engineering, design, production and supply of the electrical equipment for the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine conveyor system. The delivery comprises the new conveyor system with gearless and conventional drives from thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions.

Phoenix replaces conveyor belt with new one

Phoenix Conveyor Belt Systems replaced a Phoenocord St 6800 at Freeport-McMoran?s and Codelco?s El Abra Mine in northern Chile after almost 20 years

IRL is finalising plans to restart production from Rakha copper mines

Rakha mines was first started by a British firm in 1900 to mine copper. The mine is currently owned by Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL). The Rakha mines have remained closed since 2001 due to negative economies of scale. HCL had invited global tenders in 2010 for re-opening, operation and expansion of Rakha Mine to produce at a rate of 1.5 million tonne per year of copper ore.

Copper output rises 1.1% in FY13

Union mines Minister Dinsha Patel said in Rajya Sabha that the output of copper rose 1.1 per cent to 6.92 lakh tonne in 2012-13 from 6.84 lakh tonne copper a year ago. In 2010-11, India produced 6.64 lakh tonne of copperThe country imports copper ore concentrate to meet the domestic demand and its refining capacity is more than dom

Metso to Deliver Feeders

Metso will deliver a significant order consisting of 38 feeders for the major Mexican copper mine Buenavista del Cobre, owned by Grupo Mexico.

Liebherr crawler crane in major Chilean construction project

In a joint venture project of Vialy Vives SA and Sigdo Koppers SA, a workshop for maintenance of dump trucks and a concentrator station on a Chilean copper ore mine are currently being built. The construction is supported by a Liebherr crawler crane, type LR 1300.

Mining Equipment: On the Threshold of Growth

With the growing production, the demand for mining equipment and machinery is expected to not just keep pace but grow manifold. The thrust on surface mines has significantly enhanced mine production capacity

Bright Future

German mining equipment manufacturers set for record sales. German mining equipment manu?facturers expect a sales of almost EUR 5 billion, representing a 32 per cent sales growth for 2011.

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