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Metso’s valve business – to be renamed Neles Corp after a partial demerger – has strengthened its valves service availability with new service centres in Portugal and France. The company will establish two new facilities in Lisbon, Portugal, and in the Mulhouse area, France, to increase its valves’ service availability and improve its customer presence,[…]

Following on from the successful commissioning of its second PhotonAssay Max system earlier this year, Chrysos Corp says it has now completed commissioning of a third PhotonAssay Max system at the MinAnalytical laboratory in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The Chrysos PhotonAssay solution provides rapid, accurate, safe and non-destructive ore grade analysis and, with the installation of[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has entered into an “innovative contract model” that will see Aboriginal businesses carry out catering, accommodation management and lifestyle and recreation services for the Cloudbreak and Karntama villages in the Chichester Hub and Hamilton Village, in Port Hedland, Western Australia. The Village Facilities Management agreements will be facilitated thorough a pact between[…]

Metso is to install high-performance crushing and material handling equipment underground at the De Beers Group’s Venetia diamond mine, in South Africa, as part of an order booked in the September quarter. In the throes of a transition from open-pit mining to underground operations, Venetia is reported to produce around 4 Mct/y, making it one[…]

Newcrest Mining has signed a domestic gas sale agreement with Chevron Australia that will see the energy company deliver domestic gas from its portfolio across the Wheatstone (pictured), Gorgon and North West Shelf facilities, in Australia. Some 16 PJ of equity domestic gas will be delivered over the 3.5-year agreement, which will begin soon and[…]

SMS Mining Services says it has been awarded a three-year extension to continue with maintenance and repair contract (MARC) services and equipment rental work for Norton Gold Fields (NGF) at its Kalgoorlie gold operations. Upon being awarded the MARC contract at NGF’s Matts Dam South gold project last year, the mining contractor said it held[…]

Wärtsilä has announced the first order of its innovative new Wärtsilä Modular Block solution for power generation to Aggreko, with four Wärtsilä Modular Block enclosures – with one medium-speed Wärtsilä 32 engine in each – to provide 40 MW of energy to Resolute Mining’s Syama gold mine, in Mali. The Modular Block order was placed[…]

Sandvik says it is preparing to deliver its renewed Sandvik LH625iE electric loader for field testing at the LKAB-owned Kiruna mine, in northern Sweden. The unit to be tested is the 600th electric loader from Sandvik, and is custom-designed to meet the needs of the underground iron ore mine, it said. The underground loader, which[…]

Boliden is a front-runner when it comes to applying technology and innovation to its Europe-based mines, and the company is now leading an industry move in condition monitoring and predictive maintenance in its process plants. At its Kevitsa copper-nickel mine, 130 km north of the Arctic Circle in Finland, Boliden has been collaborating with the[…]

PYBAR has taken a step closer to advanced underground automation at the Dargues gold mine in New South Wales, Australia, with the arrival of a second new Cat® R1700 underground LHD at the Diversified Minerals-owned site. The new loader visited the PYBAR head office in Orange, en-route to the mine site, where it was met[…]