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With the new battery powered SBU8000E underground scaler, Sweden’s Jama shows the way for the mining machines of the future. This new generation of scalers builds on the market-leading SBU8000 but it says gives even greater efficiency and reliability. The machine’s lithium-ion battery system and driveline have been developed in collaboration with Epiroc with the[…]

Thiess is continuing to strengthen its autonomy capability, with the second drill fitted with an Autonomous Drilling System (ADS) now in operation at its Lake Vermont project, which is owned by Jellinbah Group. The introduction of a second drill on site will see Lake Vermont become the first coal mining operation to have two multi-pass[…]

Sixth Wave Innovations says it is working with Australia-based Mining and Process Solutions (MPS) on test work initiatives in North America and Australia integrating Sixth Wave’s commercially available IXOS® molecular imprinted polymer for gold extraction with the MPS GlyCat™ process. The GlyCat process was invented to reduce cyanide consumption while maintaining gold recovery for gold[…]

Ora Banda Mining and Wesfarmers’ liquified natural gas business, EVOL LNG, have signed a new long-term agreement to bring LNG to the Davyhurst gold mine in Western Australia’s Goldfields region. The gold mine is aiming to restart production in January 2021 after being placed into care and maintenance in 2018. Ora Banda’s definitive feasibility study[…]

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Seamus O’Regan, has announced a C$1.6 million ($1.2 million) investment in the development of an analyser able to provide near real-time measurements of the active clay content in oil sands and mine tailings. The project, led by the Saskatchewan Research Council with Suncor Energy Inc and the Northern Alberta Institute[…]

Caterpillar’s Board of Directors has appointed Marc Cameron as a company Vice president, responsible for its Resource Industries Sales, Services and Technology division. Cameron has 20 years of deep expertise in surface and underground mining, most recently with Rio Tinto. He has led complex global teams and has extensive knowledge of mining operations, having served[…]

It was back in October 2019 that global mining company Anglo American as part of its FutureSmart Mining™ innovation program announced that it was developing a hydrogen-powered (strictly speaking it is a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle or FCEV hybrid) large mining truck, working in collaboration with global energy and energy services company ENGIE. Within FutureSmart[…]

With mining operators under growing pressure to perform in the face of falling ore grades, the need to drill deeper in search of new resources and an industry-wide skills shortage, the ability to leverage reliable and flexible communication systems is growing in importance, writes Martin Killian*, IoT Solution Architect at Speedcast. Leading mining operators have[…]

Sensor-based ore sorting test work from TOMRA Sorting Solutions has shown the potential for lowering the planned capital expenditure and operating costs associated with developing the Santa Comba tungsten-tin project in Galicia, Spain, project owner Rafaella Resources has reported. The “exceptional” ore sorting results showed a 50% rejection of un-mineralised rock and an approximate doubling[…]

Teck Resources and The AES Corp’s Chile affiliates, Compañía Minera Teck Carmen de Andacollo SA (CdA) and AES Gener SA, have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement to provide 100% renewable power for Teck’s Carmen de Andacollo Operation in Chile. Under the agreement, CdA will source 72 MW (550 GWh/y) from AES Gener’s growing[…]