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GOLD - CYANIDE
BY MATTHEW BRACE
RESEARCHERS at Australia’s Hydrometallurgy CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) have successfully recovered gold from solution using resins in an effort to reduce the industry’s reliance on cyanide extraction. Thiosulphate is seen to be an environmentally friendly alternative to cyanide for gold extraction so the researchers have been looking at methods of recovery after gold is leached with thiosulphate.…
PHAMTIN
BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African company Phamtin, the tin arm of the Phamine company has launched preparatory operations of a new tin smelter and tin concentrator plant in the country’s northern Limpopo Province.
Lucas Mkhwanazi chief executive of Phamine said that the new division and the new facilities are part of the revival of the South African tin mining industry.…
SEABED TALKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIME was that the metal industry was barely regulated, even in picture-postcard countryside you could set up a foundry at will, but now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake.…
SEABED AGAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…
PHAMTIN
BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African company Phamtin, the tin arm of the Phamine company has launched preparatory operations of a new tin smelter and tin concentrator plant in the country’s northern Limpopo Province.
Lucas Mkhwanazi chief executive of Phamine said that the new division and the new facilities are part of the revival of the South African tin mining industry.…
UKRAINE DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties are likely to be imposed on three Ukrainian steel tube producers when they export product to the European Union, after they told the European Commission that they no longer wanted to be bound by promises to maintain a minimum price level for their products.…
FERRARI IN SPACE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN what must rank as one of the more bizarre publicity stunts in the paint industry, the European Space Agency is to fly a small glass globe containing a splash of Ferrari’s fabled red paint around Mars, in its Mars Express satellite next year.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that dyes or inks can turn unbleached or pre-bleached fabrics into new products under global rules of origin legislation, so long as they are subject to at least two preparatory or finishing operations.…
SAND DREDGING
BY ALAN OSBORN
WE know that irresponsible sea-sand dredging can led to coastal erosion, threatening beaches and ecological balance and even the livelihoods of whole sea-side or fishing communities. Yet there is today an unprecedented demand for sand as a building material.…
NEAR MISSES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved in principle the passage of a directive on “occurrence reporting in civil aviation,” which will provide for the circulation of information about near misses amongst Member States.
This law will now be passed to the European Parliament, for its first reading; it would tell governments to draw up mandatory and confidential reports on incidents, defects and malfunctions which may constitute a hazard for civil aviation.…