A mining and mineral symposium at Montana Tech, Butte, Mont., attracted geologists and mineralogists as presenters and people from as far as Washington, California and Idaho as well as Montana as attendees, according to the Montana Standard.
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Komatsu America Adds Midlantic Machinery as Distributor
Komatsu America Corp., a leading global heavy equipment manufacturer, announced the appointment of Midlantic Machinery as the forestry equipment distributor for the state of Delaware and most of Maryland. Midlantic Machinery will handle the full-line of Komatsu forestry equipment, which includes track feller bunchers and harvesters, log loaders, wheeled harvesters, forwarders, and harvesting/processing heads. The dealer is also the distributor…
Read MoreNew Senate Leadership Looks Favorable to Aggregates Industry
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee – which has jurisdiction over infrastructure spending and environmental regulations – will have a new chairman and ranking democrat in the new Congress. The committee will be led by the new Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and ranking Democrat Tom Carper (D-Del.)
Read MoreHouse Approves Concrete Masonry Bill
On the opening day of the lame duck session of the 114th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives approved HR 985, the Concrete Masonry Products, Research, Education and Promotion Act of 2015 by a vote of 355 to 38.
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