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Metso says it has been awarded a contract for the design, supply and installation of a railroad car dumper system for CSX Transportation in the USA. The new twin cage tandem rotary car dumper system will be used for the unloading of coal from railroad cars at the CSX Curtis Bay Export Terminal, in Baltimore,[…]

Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill Resources and the Government of Mongolia have reached an agreement on the preferred domestic power solution for the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, in Mongolia, that, Rio says, paves the way for the government to fund and construct a state-owned power plant at Tavan Tolgoi. The agreement, which is a revision of[…]

CSI Mining Services (CSI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mineral Resources Limited, has been awarded a milestone contract to design, construct and operate the latest “NextGen” crushing plant at BHP’s Mt Whaleback iron ore mining operation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The contract award includes the supply, construction, installation and operation of CSI’s NextGen crushing plant,[…]

Tiefenbach Control Systems GmbH says it has received a follow-up order from China to plan and supply a second complete electro-hydraulic control system for a second set of the world’s largest roof supports to date, the ZY26000/40/88D model. The order from the roof support manufacturer ZMJ (Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co Ltd) has a[…]

SCOTT Automation’s ROBOFUEL™ is an automation and control solution, combined with the latest vision and sensing technologies providing refuelling of mine trucks accurately, safely and autonomously. The ROBOFUEL  process uses a robotic arm to refuel mining equipment to increase productive hours and efficiency of trucks, with a projected business case that demonstrates a short payback[…]

Recently, Beijing Soly Technology Co Ltd worked with China Telecom and customer Jinchuan Group’s Longshou nickel mine to successfully integrate the a driverless electric rail haulage system with a new 5G communication technology. Jinchuan Group’s Longshou mine is in Gansu Province, and this unmanned system for mined nickel ore haulage locomotives, is the first time[…]

Derrick® Corporation has announced the introduction of its new G-Vault® polyurethane interstage screen for carbon in pulp/carbon in leach (CIP/CIL) and resin in leach/resin in pulp (RIL/RIP) processes at gold recovery plants. Due to the abrasion and blind resistance of the polyurethane material, the new interstage screen reduces maintenance by eliminating the frequent washing and[…]

RUC and its technology partner, InSig Technologies, have successfully deployed their first remote controlled underground jumbo drill from surface. The achievement, made with an Epiroc S2 Jumbo at the Dacian Gold-owned Mount Morgans underground mine in Western Australia, will provide the contractor with the ability to drill for longer and take better advantage of the[…]

SUEK says it has commissioned a new flotation unit at the Kirov coal wash plant in the Kemerovo region of Russia. The technology, introduced at SUEK for the first time, maximises washing efficiency of coal fines (0-0.35 mm), producing a high-quality concentrate (calorific value over 6,600 kcal) with an ash content of 8-9% from a[…]

A 5G pilot zone has been deployed for the first time in Russia at a SUEK coal open-pit coal mine in Khakassia to test the potential of 5G as part of an autonomous haulage system developed by Zyfra, the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader. The pilot project is being trialled on 130 t BELAZ-7513R autonomous mining[…]