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Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include bauxite, coal, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, nickel, phosphate, rock salt, tin,uranium, and molybdenum. Any material that cannot be grown from agricultural processes must be mined. Mining in a wider sense can also include extraction of petroleum, natural gas, and even water.
History
The oldest known mine in the archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland. At this site, which by radiocarbon dating is 43,000 years old, paleolithic humans mined for the iron-containing mineral hematite, which they ground to produce the red pigment ochre. Sites of a similar age where Neanderthals may have mined flint for weapons and tools have been found in Hungary.
Another early mining operation was the turquoise mine operated by the ancient Egyptians at Wady Maghareh on the Sinai Peninsula. Turquoise was also mined in pre-Columbian America in the Cerillos Mining District in New Mexico, where a mass of rock 200 feet (60 m) in depth and 300 feet (90 m) in width was removed with stone tools; the mine dump covers 20 acres (81,000 m²). Black gun powder in mining was first used in a mineshaft under Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia in 1627.
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China Takes Bigger Chunk Of Australian Minerals Sector
Manufacturing.net (August 14, 2009) - Investors on Friday firmly endorsed an Australian dollars 3.5 billion ($3 billion) plan for Yanzhou Coal to buy Felix Resources Ltd. in what would be China's biggest investment yet in the Australian minerals sector.
Rio Tinto Iron Ore Production Rises In 2Q
Manufacturer.net (July 15, 2009) - Rio Tinto PLC, the world's third largest mining company, said Wednesday that its iron ore production rose 8 percent in the second quarter and that it expects a recovery in Chinese steel demand in the second half of the year.
Bucyrus, CSIRO Sign Global Licensing Agreement For Longwall Mining Technology
Bucyrus International (July 9, 2009) - Bucyrus and Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) today signed a non-exclusive worldwide license agreement which gives its customers access to LASC (Longwall Automation Steering Committee) technology developed at CSIROs Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Brisbane. Signing the agreement on behalf of Bucyrus, John Cassells Managing Director Bucyrus Australia said that the integration of LASC technology into the advanced Bucyrus Longwall Automation System will further strengthen Bucyruss position as a leading longwall technology provider.
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Associates - Licensed well drillers perform test borings, rock coring, install monitoring wells. Truck and all terrain vehicle drills.
Meta Description: [ Connelly & Associates is one of the largest geotechnical drilling firms in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland region. ]
Anglo American plc - Performs financing services to the mining industry. (Nasdaq: AAUK)
Anticor-Chimie - Custom-made products for asphaltenes and paraffin deposition control. Full range of oilfield chemicals including bio-remediation and soil consolidation for agricultural.
Meta Description: [ Specialised in custom-made oilfield chemicals specialties for asphaltenes and paraffins deposition control problems. Formation damage. Full range of oilfield chemicals including demulsifiers for hard to break emulsions, emulsion treatment, asphaltene and paraffin treatment dispersant & solvent, P... ]
Aztec Group of Companies - Drilling contractors, Thailand. Specializing in deep water wells, onshore oilfield, geotechnical, coring, geophysical logging,and mineral exploration.
Bradley and Sons - Operates in two basic areas, domestic wells and commercial and environmental drilling and testing. Based in central California .
Drummond Company, Inc. - Focuses on mining, purchasing, processing and selling of coal and coal derivatives.
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Foraco - Specialists in water bore-hole drilling for drinking water supplies, irrigation water or industrial water. From preliminary exploration to pre-production and reserve geometry determination.
Meta Description: [ Foraco est leader européen du forage d'eau et du sondage minier. Egalement spécialisé dans l'exploration géologique et sondages de reconnaissance., FORACO is the European leader of the water well and the mining drilling ]
Geotechnical Constructions Group - Ground freezing is a technique that has been used extensively for groundwater control and excavation support in the underground construction and mining industries for over 100 years.
Meta Description: [ Ground freezing is a technique that has been used extensively for groundwater control and excavation support in the underground construction industry for over 100 years. ]
Hammond and Company - Specialists in deep hole drilling. Gun drills, gun reamers, speedfeed, ventec, speedbit and proten drills.
Meta Description: [ Deep hole drills, diameters 3 to 50, up to 3 metres long, used on gundrilling machines and standard machine tools, drilling components as diverse as inconel valve blocks to bagpipe chanters. ]
Intalysis Pty Ltd - Supplies instruments for bulk online moisture analysis of mined materials. Includes case studies and technical data.
Meta Description: [ Our Low Frenquency Microwave (LFM) Moisture Analysers utilise a new generation of technology to ensure
accurate and reliable measurement of moisture in the most demanding bulk materials handling applications,
such as iron ore mineral concentrates and high moisture coals ]
IOM3 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
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JR Drilling - Cranbrook, BC, Canada. Specialists in water wells, monitoring wells, and mining, exploration and environmental drilling.
Meta Description: [ Visit our web site for information on all of your drilling needs. We specialise in drilling water wells, monitoring wells, mining,exploration & environmental drilling. ]
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Nelson Resources Limited - Producer of oil, gas and gold mining in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
New England Boring Contractors - Test boring, soil sampling, rock coring, well monitoring, rock pressure testing and drilling since 1977.
Meta Description: [ New England Boring Contractors has been meeting the most demanding test boring requirements since 1977. ]
Norex Drilling International - Contract drilling firm, performing surface as well as underground wireline core drilling.
Northstar Environmental Services - Air, mud rotory, hollow stem probe and direct-push drilling company in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
Pacific Drilling Company - Southern California limited access geotechnical drilling and sampling. Provides geotechnical and environmental engineering services, limited access drilling services.
PT. Petrosea Tbk - Contract mining including overburden removal, coal, gold and minerals mining, and haulage. Open pit and hard rock mining and quarrying.
Meta Description: [ Petrosea is one of the leading engineering, construction and mining contractors in Indonesia. ]
Stewart Brothers Drilling - Mud-rotary exploration, air-rotary casing hammer drilling and hollow stem auger drilling company in Milan, New Mexico.
Total Support Services - Environmental, geotechnical, and direct-push drilling contractor licensed in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Zereko Mining Contractors Limited - Offering the international mining, railroads, pipelines and civil construction industries cost effective services including drilling, mining, blasting, construction, supply of trades personnel and specialized drilling applications.
Meta Description: [ Zereko offers specialized drilling and mining services to industry. This includes contract employees, drilling, mining, bits, hammers, casing driver, and tool sales. Your Number 1 Contractor. ]
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