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Mining engineer, Christofer Catania, has been appointed General Manager of Australia-based engineering consultancy firm, MEC Mining, almost 15 years after becoming one of MEC’s first university vacation students. Back then MEC Mining serviced Queensland’s coal industry and Catania was studying at university in Brisbane when he began work for the company’s three founding directors. MEC[…]

Following the 2019 completion of a prototype 200 ton hydrogen fuel-lithium battery mixed energy mining truck by Chinese engine major Weichai, working together with CRRC Yongji, the company has had significant interest in the concept from domestic and global mining players. The protoype is capable of movement unloaded but is used for demo purposes only,[…]

Digital monitoring of key parameters is being carried out on five BELAZ 240 t 7531 series dump trucks at EVRAZ-owned Kachkanarsky GOK iron ore mine. Terminals and sensors record information about important  of the machines: fuel consumption, tyre pressure, engine temperature, gas pedal position. The “digital advisor” system analyses the data and advises the operator[…]

Hindalco Industries has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UltraTech Cement, India’s largest manufacturer of cement and concrete, to deliver 1.2 Mt/y of red mud to UltraTech’s 14 plants located across seven states. This agreement will see Hindalco become the world’s first company to achieve 100% red mud utilisation across three of its[…]

Xtract Resources’ wholly-owned Mozambique subsidiary, Explorator Limitada, has concluded a mining contractor agreement with Longhau Tianci Mining Co Ltd for the exploitation of the Guy Fawkes hard-rock gold deposit at its Manica mining concession in Mozambique. The pact will see Longhau mine the Guy Fawkes deposit for six years or until the orebody is depleted[…]

Zyfra has completed the 50th installation of its high-precision blasthole drill management system (Zyfra Precision Drill), which increases productivity and quality of drilling operations in open-pit mines based on high-precision navigation and real-time monitoring of drilling parameters. The 50th installation happened at the Berezovskiy open-pit mine, one of the leading coal producers in the Kuznetsk[…]

DataCloud is looking to collect and merge the mining industry’s datasets through a cleaning, processing, integration, and predictive analytics platform that can help different stages of an operation prepare and plan for the ore and waste heading their way. While the coarse ore stockpile may be the section of the flowsheet currently in DataCloud’s crosshairs[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hyundai Motor Company and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to advance scientific collaboration and accelerate the development of renewable hydrogen technology. The MoU outlines areas of cooperation involving the development and future commercialisation of the metal membrane technology (MMT) developed by[…]

SciDev has received a trial purchase order for its MaxiFlox chemistry from BHP’s Olympic Dam polymetallic mine, in South Australia, which will see the company transfer its waste processing expertise to the production side, Lewis Utting says. Australia’s largest copper operation, Olympic Dam operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal. The SciDev[…]

South African opencast coal mining subcontracting company Atlantis Mining continues to grow its fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment supplied by Babcock. Quintin O’Reilly, Equipment Sales Representative for Babcock, says that Atlantis Mining’s recently purchased eight new Volvo R60D rigid haulers are the first to be sold in South Africa, and will be put to the[…]