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Hemispher GPS, Carlson Software form alliance
Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Feb 24, 2012
Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software have formed an alliance involving land survey, mapping, construction, mining and other machine control markets. The ...
Topcon total stations are chosen for Europe’s largest...
Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 26, 2011
Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. announces the recent award of an order for more than 100 high precision robotic total stations ...
Parsons Brinckerhoff names COO of its...
Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 26, 2011
Chuck Kohler has been named chief operating officer (COO) of the Asia/Australia-Pacific/Southern Africa operating company of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global ...
A bigger Cat ready to serve mining industry
Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 11, 2011
If discontinuing the 5000 Series shovels was a half-step back from the mining industry, Caterpillar is primed to take three ...
Remote control for Cat mining dozers
Posted by Equipment World Staff on May 19, 2011
As part of the new MineStar mining operations and equipment management system, Caterpillar has launched an integrated remote control system ...
Bridgestone hikes off-road tire prices
Posted by Marcia Gruver Doyle on Aug 31, 2010
Bridgestone Americas' Off Road Tire division says it will increase list prices by 2 to 7 percent on all mining, ...
Cat boosts outlook based on quarterly results
Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 22, 2010
Prompting a more optimistic forecast for 2010 as a whole, increased production helped fuel a 91-percent year-over-year hike in second-quarter ...
CalCIMA calls for conference papers
Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jun 28, 2010
Paper proposals related to the aggregate, industrial materials, ready mixed concrete, cement and asphalt industries for the California Construction and ...
Mining law reforms eyed
Posted by Tom Jackson on Jul 15, 2009
One of the least publicized reforms being scrutinized in Congress this session is the possibility of drastically rewriting the 1872 ...
China gets testy with mining executives
Posted by Tom Jackson on Jul 08, 2009
Just weeks after Rio Tinto outmaneuvered a state run Chinese mining consortium on the rights to dig iron ore in ...
Aussies spurn Chinese in mega-mining deal
Posted by Tom Jackson on Jun 05, 2009
Chinese mining company Chinalco was left standing at the altar after Rio Tinto decided to do a deal with BHP Billiton ...
Mine cleanup funds cut in 2010 budget
Posted by Tom Jackson on May 26, 2009
Montana faces the loss of $142 million next year ($1.5 billion over ten years) of federal money for mine cleanups. The ...






