New and Newsworthy on InfoMine

On InvestmentMine you can now track gainers and decliners for all major exchanges such as Toronto Stock Exchange, Australian Stock Exchange, Johannesburg Stock Exchange and nine others. Grouping is also broken down further by producer, development and exploration for select exchanges.

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2010 is here and so is our calendar of worldwide mining events.

This large, wall-mountable calendar includes all major mining conferences and other events for 2010. This year’s calendar has twice as many events listed as last year’s calendar.

The calendar is free of charge. Shipping and handling are extra. You can choose from either folded or unfolded. Please visit the InfoMine eStore to order your copy.

If you order one of our maps, you will also receive this calendar at no extra charge.

Couldn’t attend an EduMine webcast? Now, you can purchase videos of past webcast courses and catch up on what you missed!

Dr. Scott Dunbar’s Mining 101 and Dr. Dennis Buchanan’s Valuation of Coal Mining Projects are now available for viewing on the EduMine website, and soon to come is Dr. Buchanan’s Valuation of Mineral Projects. With EduMine presenting more and more webcasts, we look forward to having a full library of webcast videos available before long. Watch the first session of each course for free!

InfoMine is pleased to announce the arrival of a new addition to our family of maps.

The coal mining activities map of North America includes hundreds of major coal mines, coal-fired power plants, key ports and major railways.

Coal maps are available from the InfoMine eStore in folded, unfolded, and digital formats.

For a detailed look of the map online, please click here to go to our Poster Maps page.

Sign up for the Silver News Digest, delivered once a week on Thursday evening.

Subscription is free. Stories are a roundup of the best news on the web with links to deeper intelligence on InfoMine’s site.

Each business day we email digests to over 50,000 mining and investment professionals who have opted in to receive a roundup of the latest mining news—that is over one million digests being sent each month.

SupplyMine tracks up to date news and information on mine developments worldwide. The mine development overviews provide an ideal opportunity for suppliers to determine if their products and services can be used in the construction of these projects.

A recent addition is the Kings Valley Lithium Project:

• The Kings Valley Lithium project is located approximately 100 km north-northwest of Winnemucca and 40 km west-northwest of Orovada, Nevada, U.S.A.
• Positive Scoping Study results were released on January 12, 2010 by Western Lithium Canada Corp.
• The Kings Valley lithium deposits occur in five lenses which are found in a lithium-bearing clay mineral that occurs in thick, apparently continuous accumulations.
• The Study is based on the southernmost lens which is an area of about 3 km by 2 km. At 0.2% lithium cut-off grade the deposit is estimated at 48.10 Mt containing 129,000 t lithium and 1,592,000 t potassium.

The other addition is Jabal Sayid:

• The copper and gold project is located in Saudi Arabia some 350 km north-east of Jeddah.
• A Definitive Feasibility Study was completed and results published in December 2009 - the study takes onto consideration underground mining of two of the three lodes. Mining inventory stands at 24.4 Mt in reserves grading 2.3% Cu, 0.3 g/t Au and 10g/t Ag. The pre-production capital cost is US$280M at a cash cost of US$0.97/lb (after precious metals credits).
• The mining method is sub level open stopes and CAF, CRF, sand and rock backfilling. The annual output is expected to total 2.6 Mt of ore. Mining and development are to be contracted out. An existing 2.1 km decline passes through all three known lodes facilitating a short lead time to production. Haulage is to be done by underground road trains up to 100t. Ventilation would be done by employing large variable speed surface fans.

Metals and the Mineral Industry is the first in a series of courses on extractive metallurgy by Fathi Habashi, written for university students as well as practicing engineers and metallurgists. Extractive metallurgy deals with ores as raw material and metals as finished products. Metallurgy has been transformed into a modern science as a result of developments in chemistry and chemical engineering.

This first course - Metals, Ore Deposits and Minerals - covers an introduction to metallurgy, properties of metals and their structures in the context of the Periodic Table, commercial classification of metals and their uses, metal production and recycling, mineral occurrences and prospecting/mining of ores, properties of mineral and ores, and sources of minerals.

For more information on the series and the author, see the Course Introduction page.

If you really want to know what the latest technologies and trends in the mining and exploration industry are, don’t miss the recently launched January issue of our magazine!

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Do you want to know the what was the most recent financing for a company located in Chile or what mine is expanding production in Australia? Find the answer at the bottom of this post, or you can find all this information and more when you become an InfoMine News Plus Subscriber.

The Advanced News Search is updated with expanded categories so you can search for the news that is meaningful to you. To learn more about News Plus Subscriber offerings, view the NewsMine video guide.

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Fourteen teams of students from nine U.S. and international mining universities participated in Phase I of the 2009-2010 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) / National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) Student Design Competition.

The judging of Phase I is complete and six teams are advancing. Every year students offer creative solutions to the design problem. Many companies provide support for the  Student Design Contest and CostMine and InfoMine are proud to be a part of  this unique opportunity. Congratulations to all of the students for a job well done!

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