ESI Group, (ESIN FR0004110310) announces PAM-TUBE 2G, a new product suite in the stamping simulation solution line, tailored made for tube bending and hydroforming processes. PAM-TUBE 2G, supporting all the stages from design to product manufacturing, is an intuitive software package, where the user is guided through the different steps of the process. In response [...]

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Companyâ„¢, today announced that Zhangjiakou Coal Mining Machinery Company Ltd. has selected and deployed PTC Pro/ENGINEER to develop its industry leading coal mining equipment. Zhangjiakou Coal Mining Machinery, based in the Hebei province (northern China), is one of the largest and most well-known manufacturers of special coal mining equipment [...]

Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes of South Cotabato has ordered the police and the military to arrest illegal miners, especially those involved in the destructive banlas, or sluice mining, in Barangay Kematu, T’boli.
Lourdes Jumilla, secretary of the provincial mining regulatory board, said Fuentes issued the order in the wake of the continuing illegal mining in the gold-rich [...]

Two new products have just been launched by P&H MINING EQUIPMENT: the P&H Payloadâ„¢ and Payloadâ„¢ Plus Systems. Both systems measure shovel payload weight, and therefore the weight of the material they load into haul trucks.
Payload and Payload Plus help mine operators determine their trucks’ optimum payload weight and loading strategies in response to changing [...]

The mining industry was about to experience a shift to underground mining away from opencast mining for environmental and cost reasons, Randgold Resources CEO Mark Bristow predicted in Johannesburg on Thursday. Just as underground mining had been rejected in favour of opencast mining in the 1980s, Bristow now foresaw opportunities for the reverse.
This would be [...]

In the event of a mine fire, roof collapse or explosion, mine rescue teams may be tapped to search for colleagues disoriented by toxic gas, trapped beneath layers of rock or severely injured. The teams undergo rigorous training to develop skills that oftentimes save lives. Those skills will be put to the test July 11-13 [...]

Seven years ago, a government engineer in charge of testing emergency air packs used in U.S. coal mines suggested that tests used to approve the devices might not be effective _ and that there was no way to know if the air packs were safe.
Nicholas Kyriazi, a biomedical engineer with the National Institute for Occupational [...]

A shortage of mining equipment operators threatens to stifle the development of South Australia’s mining industry.
The Australian Drilling Industry Association says a number of new drill rigs have been bought by Australian companies in recent years but there are not enough skilled workers to operate them.
Resources company Oxiana is planning to mine copper and gold [...]

AUSTRALIA’S only Nd:Yag Laser Job Shop, The LaserXperts Pty Ltd, specialises in high precision laser-microwelding, cutting and drilling.
It can undertake the cutting of complex designs in flat and tube material, including micro-cutting of tubes as small as 0.5mm ID, micro drilling of holediameters as small as 0.025mm and micro welding of spot and seam diameters [...]

South African engineering firm Bateman Engineered Technologies and Chinese heavy-machinery manufacturer Citic Heavy Engineering have entered into a formal agreement to market Citic’s range of mills and tube mills in Southern Africa.
The deal, facilitated by The Beijing Axis (TBA) and unveiled on Monday, will see Bateman Engineered Technologies, a division of Bateman Engineering NV, acquiring [...]