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Spartan-based vibrating screen specialist Kwatani, driven by its aggressive cost leadership strategy, is supplying a large exciter-driven grizzly feeder and a sizing screen to the Gamsberg zinc project near Aggeneys in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. As the flagship of miner Vedanta Zinc International/Black Mountain Mining, Gamsberg is set to exploit one of the largest[…]

Hummingbird Resources announces that wet commissioning has commenced and the mill has been pre-commissioned at its Yanfolila gold mine in Mali ahead of first gold pour by the end of 2017. Dan Betts, CEO of Hummingbird, commented: “Progress is continuing at pace and in line with our schedule.  We are pleased that we have pre-commissioned[…]

Total, the 4th largest international oil and gas company has been awarded a three year lubricant contract with Thiess Pty Ltd with an option to extend the contract for up to seven years. Over the next few years, Total will be supplying over 100 million litres of lubricants to Thiess operations in five countries, namely[…]

In three papers presented recently at MEI’s Flotation ’17 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, BASF addressed both apatite and sulphide mineral flotation challenges. The first paper, Development of fatty acid modifier for beneficiation of the igneous apatite ores of Kovdor deposit by Kamkin/Michailovski/Alexandrov/Mikkola, stated that decreasing grades of processed phosphate ores is driving a[…]

Inspirations’17 was IntelliSense.io’s flagship customer experience event aiming to bring together leading digital technology companies whose solutions have potential applications for the mining industry, along with the industry itself. Held on 26 and 27 October at the Moller Centre at Churchill College in Cambridge, the event kick-starts a series “showcasing the art of possibility of[…]

In the second edition of its Mining Newsletter for 2017, Warren Beech, Global Head, Mining Subsector, at Johannesburg law firm Hogan Lovells argues that “despite concerns regarding regulatory and policy uncertainty across Africa, (as demonstrated by the implementation of radical new laws in Tanzania, and the publication of the third version of the Mining Charter[…]

On November 21, 1947, Wilhelm Abel founded a mining engineering company in Düsseldorf, specialising in the manufacturing of pumps for the coal mining industry. Since then, ABEL GmbH has become a 100% subsidiary of Hillenbrand Inc. In its headquarters, located today in Büchen, near Hamburg, ABEL designs and manufactures a wide range of products comprising[…]

Full-scale construction is underway at Lydian’s Amulsar Gold Project in Armenia. The $65 million mining fleet is from Caterpillar. One Caterpillar 6040 hydraulic shovel, one Caterpillar 994 loader, and four Caterpillar 789D haul trucks arrived as scheduled during Q3 2017. The 6040 shovel, which is the largest load to be transported to site, cleared customs and[…]

Following extensive trials and tests at the Meandu coal mine in Australia, Hitachi’s mining truck haulage automation system will soon be applied commercially at mining customer sites. In 2012, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd says it “commenced development of an autonomous haulage system that will leapfrog over current market offerings.” The system combines technologies and expertise[…]

Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News, Co will unveil its new autonomous haulage solution this week in Cologne, Germany, at the Autonomous Industrial Vehicle Technology Symposium. Liebherr’s development program towards autonomous haulage is currently underway. An initial prototype testing is active since 2016. Liebherr plans to begin field trials of a pre-series at a customer site[…]