Wildfire halts nickel plant construction
A wildfire burned more than a square kilometre of brush and forest near Long Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada on 13 July 2009, including an area where Vale Inco is preparing to build a nickel processing plant. Nickel King project metallurgical study
Strongbow Exploration Inc. has received the results of a metallurgical study of the Main Zone nickel-copper-cobalt deposit at its wholly owned Nickel King project, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. USA: CO2 pipeline feasibility study
Denbury Resources Inc. has initiated a comprehensive feasibility study of a possible long-term CO2 pipeline project which would connect proposed gasification plants in the Midwest to the company’s existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure in Mississippi or Louisiana. Canada: Kearl oil sands contract
Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for infrastructure and offlease facilities for the first phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining and bitumen extraction operation located 70km NE of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Boeing-VSMPO JV begins operation
Boeing Co.’s Russian titanium- producing joint venture began operating on 7 July 2009, giving the commercial-aircraft maker a bigger supply of a metal used increasingly for lightweight components. 
Bill Ellerbee has been selected to serve as vice president of operations for Lincoln Industries. 
Northrop Grumman Corp. has redelivered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), to the US Navy. 
US-based Franklin Miller Inc. has released the Super Shredder in-line disintegrator for reducing tough solids in sludge or raw sewage lines. 
Kennametal Inc., headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsyvania, US, has released premium SGE inserts for Kennametal's Mill 1-14/18 platform. 
Local ThyssenKrupp stainless officials have announced that ThyssenKrupp AG is not cancelling or further delaying its plans for a stainless steel melt shop at the company's complex in Calvert, Alabama, US.