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BELAZ is planning to work with a Canadian company to design an electric dump truck, according to a report from Belarus news agency BelTA. In an interview with BelTA, Director General Piotr Parkhomchik said a document to design the battery-electric vehicle had been drawn up and BELAZ intended to get finance from the Canadian firm.[…]

HCL Technologies (HCL) has extended its partnership with Anglo American, agreeing a five-year infrastructure services deal that will see the diversified miner use more cloud-based solutions. The multi-year deal is aimed at reducing Anglo’s global data centre footprint through the continued consolidation of its on-premises infrastructure and partial migration to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service operating model. HCL[…]

Master Drilling, through subsidiary Master Tunnelling, is not trying to re-invent the wheel with its mobile tunnel borer (MTB) concept, but that doesn’t mean to say the application of such technology will not have a big impact on the underground mining space. The company, up until recently thought of as a raiseboring specialist, is up[…]

Danakali Ltd, on behalf of the Colluli Mining Share Co (CMSC), advises that DRA Global (DRA) has been confirmed as the preferred EPCM provider for the Colluli potash project, subject to completion of detailed contract terms. The confirmation of DRA as preferred EPCM contractor for Colluli represents another critical milestone for the project, reinforcing that[…]

Hill End Gold reports that marketing discussions reveal high purity alumina’s (HPA) use in lithium batteries and synthetic sapphire for high‐technology is growing rapidly, creating the ideal environment for Hill End’s Yendon HPA project: Discussions with manufacturers of lithium battery separators highlight the huge increases they are making in their production capacity Some are in[…]

Global engineering business Howden has acquired both Advanced Combustion Inc (ACI) and Advanced Fan Systems as it looks to expand its mine ventilation offering. ACI, located in Toronto, is the leading designer, manufacturer and installer of mine air heating equipment for the mining industry, according to Howden. Advanced Fan Systems, meanwhile, manufactures a line of[…]

Pybar Mining Services has started up underground mining at Heron Resources’ Woodlawn zinc project in New South Wales, Australia, ahead of full commissioning by the end of the year. The company entered into a four-year underground mining contract with Pybar in February and the contractor has now kicked off mining. This includes the ground support[…]

Israel automated drone startup Airobotics has launched its North American headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it will run all North America, South America and Central America operations. The Scottsdale office is intended to become the company’s global headquarters as Airobotics continues to scale up, with the world’s largest mining company, BHP, the company’s first customer[…]

Monarques Gold Corp has presented the initial parameters today for the feasibility study to be carried out on its Wasamac gold property by BBA. The study, to be completed in December 2018, will include assessment, design, engineering and costing for the mine, the processing plant, the tailings management facility and all the related services and[…]

ASX-listed SciDev Ltd is to add a chemical products trial to the commercial OptiFlox® System test it is due to carry out in the December quarter at one of Iluka Resources’ Australia mineral sands operations. The two-week trial of the chemical products will run concurrently with the OptiFlox System testing, the latter of which was[…]