Stewart Group gets fired up in Mongolia

Leading international inspection and testing companies are taking action to ensure that they are well positioned for future growth.

This year’s venue for the Coaltrans World Coal Conference is Madrid.The conference will be complemented by an exhibition that will offer delegates the chance to see the brands and products important to a dynamic coal industry.

Stewart Group, the international provider of geo-chemical and assay, mineralogy and metallurgy and inspection and analysis services, has completed a C$1.1M investment programme at its newly acquired mineralogy and metallurgy facility in British Columbia, Canada.

Today’s need for stricter regulatory compliance and higher levels of traceabilty imposes increased demands on inspection, verification, testing and certification services when bulk commodities are traded between supplier and receiver.

The South African mining industry had hoped that 2010 would be the year that coal exports got back on track.

Inspection services carried out on dry bulk cargoes not only gauge consistency and quality but often, in the case of large tonnages loaded to or from ships, total weight as well – as a means of verifying the value of the bulk consignment. Here we report on the latest methodology in the quest to obtain a representative sample.