How do companies confidently calculate the worth of a resource?

A Canadian mining company has mounted extensive exploration programmes in the Central Mineral Belt (CMB) of Labrador, a province of complex geology and few inhabitants. It is focusing on clean energy components, including uranium and vanadium as vanadium redox batteries can rapidly charge and discharge without deterioration.

Team MAST has been delivering the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD’s) low to medium maturity materials and structures research since November 2007. This article presents case studies from that work - coatings to lower solar heat absorption, self healing of fibre-reinforced polymer composites and integrated damage resistance in composite structures.

Warfare is moving to the nanoscale to defend soldiers against modern chemical and biological weapons. This article describes Swedish developments.

The StereoCore PhotoLog system from Ground Modelling Technologies in Johannesburg, South Africa, is finding applications in large mine projects, this article describes it.

Tanzania has great potential as a developing mining nation. Michael Forrest reports on a UK All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting that discussed the country.

Discussing the processes involved in chemically machining difficult-to-etch metals and alloys using direct current, pulse and pulse-reverse electrolytic etching.

Describing the methods used to produce deformed layers that give alloys differing surface properties.