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BHP has added two Liebherr R 9800 excavators to its Mt Arthur Coal Mine fleet in New South Wales, commissioned in November 2018 and February 2019. Mt Arthur Coal has been a long-term valued customer for Liebherr-Australia, and in particular the Liebherr Mt Thorley Branch. These 800 t excavators are the first of their class[…]

The Estonian energy and oil shale mining company Enefit recently utilised the Milrem Robotics commercial line unmanned ground vehicle Multiscope to determine the condition of the pillars in an oil shale mine in which mining ended ten years ago. The Multiscope equipped with 3D LiDARs was used in the Estonian mine in closed underground locations.[…]

Bushveld Minerals’ 84%-owned energy subsidiary, Bushveld Energy, says it has commissioned and completed site acceptance testing of the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project with South Africa national power utility Eskom. At completion, the unit, supplied by UniEnergy Technologies, will have a peak output of 450 kWh. The VRFB battery commissioning with Eskom recommenced in[…]

Cummins has officially launched its new “Power Hub” in the Waterfall Logistics Precinct in Waterfall City, Gauteng, South Africa. The new premises strategically consolidates and solidifies various business premises in support of the company’s position as Africa’s preferred power solutions provider, Cummins said. The 15,355 m² facility, a ZAR350 million ($24 million) investment, houses the[…]

Outotec says it and Russia iron ore pellet producer JSC Stoilensky GOK (S-GOK), which is a part of NLMK Group, have entered into a contract to expand S-GOK’s pellet plant located in Stary Oskol, Russia. The approximately €15 million ($16.9 million) order has been booked in Outotec’s 2019 March quarter order intake, it said. Outotec[…]

ASX-listed Macmahon Holdings says it has been issued a Notice of Award by AngloGold Ashanti, its client at the Tropicana gold mine in Western Australia, for the development of the new Boston Shaker underground mine. Tropicana, a joint venture between AngloGold (70% and manager) and Independence Group (IGO, 30%), is already Macmahon’s largest mining contract[…]

Mitchell Services has been awarded a contract extension at BHP’s Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine in South Australia, which means it will continue with its underground drilling work until April 2020. Under the varied terms of the deal, which comes on the back of a sustained period of strong drilling performance, the company will provide up[…]

Newmont’s Boddington and Tanami gold mines, in Australia, are piloting and deploying technological innovations as they look to optimise resource value and deliver improved operational performance, the company says. To do this, the company is using regional technology teams that, according to Newmont’s Vice President of Operational Technology and Innovation, Mike Wundenberg, are “instrumental to[…]

RCT says it has successfully installed its autonomous technology on the recently released Sandvik LH621i underground loader for one of its clients in Western Australia’s Goldfields. Earlier this month, RCT’s Kalgoorlie branch received the loader and commissioned the ControlMaster® Guidance automation technology package only weeks after the machine was first released to the Western Australia[…]

Hard-Line says it has signed up Bingham Equipment Company as the company’s newest distributor in Arizona, USA. With 11 locations in Arizona, Bingham Equipment will distribute Hard-Line’s LP401, MT52, and the RRC. The LP401 (pictured) is a remote control operated low profile loader (skid steer) that can be used in a variety of restrictive areas[…]