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Swick Mining Services Ltd, a leading provider of high‐quality underground and surface mineral drilling and mineral analysis services, has been awarded a contract extension from Northern Star Resources at the Jundee Gold Operations in Western Australia. The two‐year extension, with a two‐year option, was awarded at Swick’s target margins after a competitive tender process. Jundee[…]

Fluor Corporation has been given full notice to proceed by Gold Fields for its Salares Norte open pit gold mine in Chile. Fluor booked its portion of the undisclosed contract value in the second quarter of 2020. “Fluor’s innovative engineering and construction approach has demonstrated how we have been able to provide solutions to the[…]

Marking another industry first for autonomous haulage, mining companies have now hauled more than three billion metric tonnes of materials leveraging Komatsu’s FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System (AHS). Working closely with its customers, Komatsu teams developed the first commercially available autonomous haulage system to help mines move material more efficiently. First deployed in 2008 at Codelco’s[…]

Macarthur Minerals Ltd continues its progress towards a route to market for its flagship Moonshine magnetite deposits at Lake Giles, targeting a +65% Fe beneficiated magnetite concentrate, with the engagement of RCR Mining Technologies Pty Ltd (RCRMT) to provide a conceptual engineering and design solution for rail transport and unloading infrastructure of magnetite concentrate at[…]

Downer EDI says its Asset Services business had recently been awarded a number of contracts in the power generation, oil and gas, and industrial sectors with a combined value of approximately A$324 million. In the industrials market, Downer has been awarded a two-year contract with BHP for the delivery of sustaining capital projects across their[…]

Canada Nickel Company Inc has created a wholly-owned subsidiary, NetZero Metals, to begin the research and development of a processing facility that would be located in the Timmins, Ontario region with the goal of utilising existing technologies to produce zero-carbon nickel, cobalt and iron products. The company has applied for trademarks for the terms NetZero[…]

ORBCOMM Inc, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has expanded its long-standing agreement with Terex Corporation, and extended the service term of ORBCOMM’s factory installed telematics solution to its customers. As part of the agreement, ORBCOMM and Terex will also collaborate on continued technology innovation for ORBCOMM’s industry-leading heavy equipment IoT device[…]

Software company Blockhead Technologies Inc has announced it has entered a partnership with ABC Refinery, the refining division of Pallion, Australasia’s largest independent precious metals service group. ABC Refinery is Australia’s pre-eminent independent precious metals assayer, refiner and mint, and the exclusive manufacturer of ABC Bullion products. Blockhead and ABC Refinery are partnering to create[…]

ABB has launched analytics software and services that it says combine operational data with engineering and IT data to deliver actionable intelligence for a range of industries including mining. The ABB Ability™ Genix Industrial Analytics and AI Suite is a scalable advanced analytics platform with pre-built, easy-to-use applications and services. “It collects, contextualises and converts[…]

Innovations in the washing sector and the continued advancement of CDE’s pioneering wet processing solutions the company says are supporting quarry operators and materials processors alike to overcome the challenges stemming from water management; cost-based, efficiency, sustainability and regulatory. CDE says its modular wet processing equipment can contribute to the easing of water scarcity issues[…]