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MACA Ltd advises that Capricorn Metals Ltd has issued MACA Mining a letter of intent to award the Open Pit Mining Services Contract, at the Karlawinda Gold Project in Western Australia. The project is located 65 km southeast of Newman in the Pilbara region, Western Australia. The project will consist of open pit mining services[…]

Bellevue Gold has announced that it has taken a key step in its project development strategy with the appointment of contractor GBF Mining and Industrial Services Pty Ltd, part of the Macmahon group of companies to complete Stage 1 at its WA gold project. GBF/Macmahon will re-establish the exisiting decline for mechanised use at Bellevue,[…]

Pre-fabricated modular data centre specialist, DXN Ltd, has entered into a contract with Newcrest Mining, the largest gold producer listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and one of the world’s largest gold mining companies. The contract is for the design, build, shipment and installation of a complete prefabricated modular EDGE data centre to incorporate critical[…]

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Minister for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan officially opened leading Caterpillar dealer WesTrac’s new Technology Training Centre near the South West town of Collie on August 27, 2020. The centre is only the second such training facility in the world focusing on the technical skills required to operate autonomous equipment[…]

sensemetrics Inc, the global Industrial IoT (IIoT) and cloud technology company whose solutions help to transform sensor data into real-time business intelligence, today launched a tailored IIoT solution that it says gives mining companies and their insurers real-time, end-to-end Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) insights. “Available globally, the solution drives safety and mitigates risk across the[…]

In its recent FY2020 report, Fortescue Metals Group outlined its ongoing focus on innovation and technology. Notably FMG said that autonomous haul fleet conversion was completed at Christmas Creek and continued at Cloudbreak during FY2020 with a total of 170 trucks operating autonomously across all operations at 30 June 2020. FMG’s AHS deployment has increased[…]

As part of its efficiency improvement program, the Solntsevsky coal mine, a key mining asset of the Eastern Mining Company, has introduced modern high-speed refuelling of mining equipment. The new system allows a reduction in the time for refuelling one piece of equipment of 2.5 times thereby increasing mining equipment productivity. As part of the[…]

Rio Tinto’s Kennecott site in the US is the first producer to be awarded the Copper Mark, the copper industry’s new independently assessed responsible production programme. The Kennecott operation in Utah has demonstrated it meets over 30 criteria for responsible environmental, social and governance practices. The Copper Mark is the first and only programme for[…]

High angle conveying is on the up in mining – and the world’s second largest installation is close to completion in the southern part of Russia’s Mikhailovksy GOK iron ore open pit mine, part of Metalloinvest. It consists of 13 sections, uses a sandwich conveyor, has a 37 degree angle and a lift of 215[…]

DeepGreen Metals Inc has formalised partnerships with leading scientific research institutions and internationally-renowned universities in a significant investment into its ongoing deep-sea discovery program to characterise the potential impacts of lifting polymetallic nodules up from the bottom of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean. The battery metals start-up is investing over $60[…]