News Archive

March 2020
18 Mar 2020
Buenaventura and Sierra Metals scale back Peru operations
Compañia de Minas Buenaventura and Sierra Metals have become the latest companies to scale down...
18 Mar 2020
NRW Holdings to upgrade Olympic Dam airport
NRW Holdings’ wholly-owned subsidiary, NRW Contracting, has been awarded an airport upgrade contract with BHP...
17 Mar 2020
Freeport’s Cerro Verde is the latest COVID-19 casualty among Peru’s big mines
Freeport-McMoRan Inc has announced that to comply with the Peruvian Government's Supreme Decree and declaration...
17 Mar 2020
Vale to ramp down Voisey’s Bay nickel mine for a month
Vale has become the latest miner to react to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, saying it...
17 Mar 2020
Newmont’s Yanacocha latest major global mine to ramp down due to COVID-19
Newmont Corporation announced today that coronavirus-related government restrictions in Peru will require safely ramping down...
17 Mar 2020
Sandvik launches LS312 flameproof LHD in South Africa
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technologies’ new LS312 underground loader has found favour with South Africa...
17 Mar 2020
MBE Minerals expanding vibrating screen sales in southern Africa
Leveraging decades of industry experience and in-house design expertise, MBE Minerals says it is strengthening...
17 Mar 2020
Northvolt charging up Epiroc battery-electric mining solutions
Northvolt has recently delivered its largest order of lithium-ion battery systems to date to Epiroc,...
17 Mar 2020
Anglo American formally completes acquisition of Sirius Minerals & its Woodsmith polyhalite project
On 20 January 2020, the boards of Sirius Minerals PLC, Anglo American PLC and Anglo...
17 Mar 2020
COVID-19 slows work slows at globally important copper projects Quellaveco & Oyu Tolgoi
The effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread is now being felt in slowdowns at some...
17 Mar 2020
Sandvik ramps up Automine truck automation efforts
Sandvik says it has released a new solution that will allow automated underground trucks to...
17 Mar 2020
RCT tech-agnostic automation solutions find favour in USA
Having made a name for itself in Australia and elsewhere, RCT’s ControlMaster™ automation and control...