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Komatsu Australia Corp and Skycatch Inc are partnering to boost the efficiency of construction, mining, and quarry sites across Oceania with the High Precision Package. The High Precision Package is also known as Komatsu’s Everyday Drone Solution, a key component to the Smart Construction workflow.The Everyday Drone contains the Explore1 high precision UAV, the Edge1[…]

Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co says it strives for continuous improvement to its product line of mining trucks and excavators. Safety, productivity, and performance are at the core of these new features. “Liebherr has been designing, developing, and servicing high-quality mining trucks for over 20 years. The Liebherr production factory in Newport News, VA[…]

Newtrax Technologies says it has applied machine-learning algorithms to help Agnico Eagle Mines’ Goldex mine predict mobile equipment maintenance issues up to two weeks in advance. With the two companies already having an existing relationship at the mine, in Quebec, Canada, Newtrax was approached in the fall to discuss the data Agnico had collected from[…]

The transition of Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining’s Turquoise Ridge gold mine (owned 75:25) in Nevada, US, to a Tier One operation is tracking to plan, the Canada-based miner said recently, with the Sandvik MR361 roadheader it took delivery of back in 2017 continuing to prove its worth. Barrick said in its December quarter results[…]

MacLean Engineering says its near-term focus in the first half of 2019 is the completion and delivery of its first battery-electric Ore Flow unit to Goldcorp’s Borden gold project in Ontario, Canada. Reflecting on a year of developments in 2018, the production support vehicle specialist said this unit – made up of an EV BH3[…]

The feasibility study for MOD Resources’ majority-owned T3 copper-silver open-pit project in Botswana has delivered compelling mine economics, in addition to a fleet and flowsheet plan that will interest the major mining original equipment manufacturers. T3, in the Kalahari Copper Belt, is expected to require $182 million in development capital and deliver a mine able[…]

In a review of exploration and development activities in 2018, Ivanhoe Mines has gone into some detail on developments at Shaft 2 at the Platreef PGM-nickel-copper-gold project on the northern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex. This follows a project update issued just after the Mining Indaba event in February. Shaft 1, expected to reach[…]

Engineering company Monadelphous Group says it has been awarded a second construction contract, valued at A$104 million ($74 million), at BHP’s South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The contract includes structural, mechanical, piping and electrical and instrumentation works associated with the project’s inflow infrastructure and brings the total value[…]

Epiroc says its Mobilaris Mining Intelligence (MMI) is set to help improve decision making at Assmang’s Black Rock underground manganese mine in South Africa. The mining original equipment manufacturer said this will be the first installation of the decision support solution in a room and pillar mine. Pierre Becker, General Manager Black Rock mine, said[…]

DRA Global says it has been selected by Sojitz as the preferred partner for the restart and operations and maintenance of the Gregory Crinum metallurgical coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, Australia. Sojitz Coal Mining announced, this week, that it has officially taken ownership of Gregory Crinum, near Emerald in Central Queensland, from BHP Billiton[…]