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Nominations are being accepted for the best innovators in the mining industry to be inducted into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame during the SME Annual Conference in Denver next year. The gala dinner at which inductees will be recognised will be on the evening of February 25 at The Brown Palace Hotel. Nominations[…]

Graña y Montero SAA, a leading Engineering and Construction company, announced that GyM S.A. has signed a sale contract for its 87.59% stake in STRACON GyM, a company specialized in contract mining services, for an approximate amount of $77 million. The closing of the transaction is scheduled to materialise within a maximum period of ten[…]

The Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ is about to make a new haul truck for a new carrying capacity class, BelAZ representatives told Belarussian news agency, BelTA. BelAZ’s experimental shop has nearly finished assembling a haul truck BelAZ 75320 with the carrying capacity of 290 t. “The new vehicle will expand the lineup of haul[…]

Murray & Roberts recently received correspondence from ATON GmbH regarding ATON’s intention to make a firm offer to Murray & Roberts’ shareholders to acquire all the issued and to be issued ordinary shares of Murray & Roberts, not currently owned by ATON at a cash offer price of ZAR15.00 per Murray & Roberts’ ordinary share.[…]

Anaconda Mining Inc has been recognized with the Natural Resources Magazine’s Industry Excellence Award for Environmental Stewardship. Natural Resources Magazine’s Industry Excellence Awards recognizes companies in Atlantic Canada’s natural resources sectors that are striving for and achieving greatness in resource development, health and safety, innovation, environmental stewardship and championing communities. Dustin Angelo, President & CEO:[…]

Guyana Goldfields Inc reports that the phase one mill expansion which was designed to increase the hard rock throughput rate from 5,600 t to 6,600 t/d has been completed on-time and slightly under budget with initial benefits to recovery already being observed within current operations. The expansion consisted of debottlenecking the back end of the[…]

In a technology-focused partnership that will help make mines safer and more productive, Sibanye-Stillwater and the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, has launched the Sibanye-Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory (DigiMine). DigiMine is a simulated mining environment in the Chamber of Mines building on the West Campus of Wits University, whose facilities[…]

Four years ago, Leigh Ann Booysen worked grueling shifts at Kumba’s Kolomela iron ore mine as a drill operator. That meant sitting on a truck-sized drilling machine in an iron ore pit for eight hours, drilling holes for explosives before blasting. Today, she proudly boasts to her family that she works an office job –[…]

Building on the strong heritage of the M Series Motor Graders, the new Cat® 24 Motor Grader “delivers high performance construction and maintenance of mine roads to improve mining truck efficiency.” The 24 Motor Grader is equipped with a 7.3 m (24-ft) wide moldboard and is application matched for medium to large mines running trucks[…]

XCMG has delivered 70 units of its XDA40 articulated dump truck (ADT) to customers in Central Asia and South Africa, completing an export order that is worth $31.63 million. Designed for use in major mining projects and capable of handling loads of up to 40 t, the advanced and durable XDA40 ADT is XCMG’s flagship[…]