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ALLU has newly enhanced the brand for its in-bucket screening and crushing technology at the recent CONEXPO show in Las Vegas as ALLU Transformer. ALLU Transformer is described as “a hydraulic attachment for wheel loader, excavator, skid steer or similar equipment. We have developed the concept and design over many years to effectively make your[…]

Gekko has won the recent 2017 Melbourne Unearthed Hackathon at Melbourne’s General Assembly. The 54-hour open innovation event gathered software developers, engineers and designers into teams to develop prototype technologies to solve one of the four challenges provided by Newcrest. The first prize was awarded to the Digi-MIN team which consisted of three Gekko representatives[…]

Albemarle Corp, a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, has announced that Talison Lithium, a joint venture between Albemarle and Tianqi Lithium Corp, has approved the expansion of lithium concentrate production at its Greenbushes, Australia spodumene mine. Greenbushes is the world’s largest active lithium mine. It has the largest known hard rock lithium reserve,[…]

Wealth Minerals has filed on SEDAR a NI 43-101 technical report titled NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Atacama Lithium Project El Loa Province Region II Republic of Chile dated March 10, 2017, in connection with the grant to Wealth of an option to acquire a 100% royalty-free interest in and to the ‘Proyecto Atacama[…]

The global niobium industry has witnessed substantial alterations to its corporate landscape over the past few years, Roskill explains. As recently as 2011, the Brazilian niobium and ferroniobium giant CBMM (pictured) was wholly owned by the Salles family, with Anglo American providing the balance of the country’s ferroniobium output. The only other significant ferroniobium producer,[…]

Recently at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017, Hemisphere GNSS introduced its A326 Rugged Smart Antenna. Purpose-built for harsh machine control environments, A326 adds another system component and empowers heavy equipment manufacturers to deliver their own machine control and guidance solutions to their customers. Designed to excel in challenging environments, the multi-frequency, multi-GNSS A326 uses Hemisphere’s powerful Athena™ RTK[…]

PT Bukit Asam’s (PTBA) Tanjung Enim mine in Indonesia’s Sumatra province has recently commissioned a high-fidelity CYBERMINE Full Mission Simulator (FMS) System, designed by South African simulation company, ThoroughTec Simulation. The system will provide the latest in simulator technology for the training of driver-operators for Tanjung Enim’s new fleet of BELAZ 75135 haul trucks. Blue[…]

Glencore plc has entered into a definitive agreement with Trevali Mining Corp, whereby Trevali will purchase Glencore’s 80% interest in the Rosh Pinah mine in Namibia and 90% interest in the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso. The aggregate consideration is $400 million, of which $244 million is to be paid in cash, with the remaining[…]

Reflux™ Classifier (RC™) technology is rapidly gaining popularity in coal processing applications in Africa because of its ability to easily handle varying feed conditions. Traditional technology cannot accommodate these feed variations resulting in recovery losses whereas the RC is a lot more forgiving of solids feed rate variations. This allows a consistent separation and as[…]

Laird has released its new Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) Low-Power, Long-Range LoRa gateway, which enables enterprise customers to deploy EIoT networks in practically any geographic location, even where traditional communications infrastructure is unavailable. “The Sentrius RG1xx has been purpose-built from the ground up to create a secure, scalable, robust LoRa network solution,” said Scott[…]