Fortescue Metals Group has now seen 35 manned haul trucks converted to autonomous mode at its Christmas Creek operations in the Pilbara of Western Australia, with Caterpillar recently completing a Command for hauling installation on a Komatsu 930 E, according to the iron ore miner. The company shared the news ahead of an investor and[…]
Petropavlovsk has made significant progress on the commissioning its Pressure Oxidation (POX) Hub project at the Pokrovskiy mine in the Russian Far East, with first refractory ore concentrate processing scheduled for November 28. During the week commencing November 5, the group’s in-house POX experts together with Outotec, MOGAS Systems & Consulting and representatives from various[…]
Resolute Mining has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Ignite Energy Projects Pty Ltd, a leading financier, developer and operator of power projects in Africa, for the development of a new 40 MW independent solar hybrid power plant at the company’s Syama gold mine in Mali. The Syama Solar Hybrid Power Plant will combine[…]
Planning a crushing and screening process can typically take months. Additionally, it’s often difficult for aggregates producers to move their largest equipment from site to site. Metso says that the NW Rapid is the market’s first wheel-mounted crushing unit that can be delivered in standard containers from the factory as well as easily moved from[…]
Sandvik is proud to announce it has partnered with Newtrax, the global leader in wireless IoT for the underground metal mining industry, “to deliver world-class mining safety, efficiency, and productivity to underground metal mines through digitalisation.” Sandvik’s OEM-independent OptiMine® digital platform “will seamlessly integrate with Newtrax’s system of wireless IoT to provide all relevant data[…]
Mine Energy Solutions (MES) is building on the recent dual fuel hybrid truck trial it ran with project partners New Hope Group and Hastings Deering at the New Acland coal mine in Queensland, Australia, and hopes to roll out its first commercial fleet at an operation in the state’s Bowen Basin late next year. The[…]
Terra Drone has continued its acquisition drive with the purchase of a majority stake in leading European drone service provider Skeye. With this acquisition, Terra Drone has become one of the largest drone service companies with more than 250 employees and a presence in all continents. As part of the acquisition, Skeye will become the[…]
Diamond processing technology specialist DebTech is assisting South Africa’s largest diamond mine to optimise its plant throughput by re-concentrating the product from the dense medium separation (DMS) stage, with the recent delivery of its X-ray Transmission (XRT) sorter. The XRT Coarse Concentrator sorting unit was delivered earlier this year to De Beers’ Venetia mine in[…]
BHP has confirmed identification of a potential new iron oxide, copper, gold (IOCG) mineralised system, located 65 km to the southeast of BHP’s operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. As part of its ongoing copper exploration program, four diamond drill holes, totalling 5,346 m, intersected copper, gold, uranium and silver mineralisation of IOCG style[…]
Goldcorp and IBM Canada have co-authored what they term “an innovative first of a kind technology product” to improve predictability for gold mineralisation. IBM Exploration with Watson applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralisation and uses powerful search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets, according to Goldcorp. “The potential[…]