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Queensland looks like adding a new coking coal mine to its ranks after the state government approved mining leases for Pembroke Resources’ Olive Downs project. The granting of the leases follows approvals from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in early 2020, and the grant[…]

Today the European Commission launched the new European Raw Materials Alliance, as announced in the Commission’s Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials on 3 September. EIT RawMaterials will manage the stakeholder consultation process across the entire raw materials value chain, working with an innovation project-driven community, which brings together more than 150 industrial and non-industrial[…]

Sandvik has joined the Sustainable Underground Mining (SUM) project being run by LKAB at the same time as the Volvo Group has exited the Sweden-based collaboration. The moves come as the iron ore miner looks to “further strengthen a joint endeavour towards sustainable underground mining at great depths”, it said. To develop the digitalised, autonomous[…]

There have been a lot of misleading press reports in English in mining as well as general publications that seem to suggest that a recent deal struck between the Polish Ministry of State Assets and the Silesian branches of the coal miners’ Solidarity union translates to the end of all underground hard coal mining in[…]

Communications and IT services provider, Speedcast International Ltd, has signed a long-term agreement with Nokia to deploy its industrial-grade private wireless solutions globally via the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud. Through this new collaboration, Speedcast is providing remote backhaul, data and voice connectivity to enterprise customers, covering areas up to a radius of 30 km and[…]

IMDEX’s Blast DOG™ technology is gaining recognition, with the drill and blast innovation winning a Queensland mining award last week. IMDEX Blast DOG, being developed in collaboration with Universal Field Robots (UFR) and tested at Anglo American’s Dawson coal mine in Queensland, won the Greyhound Innovation (METS) Award at the 2020 Queensland Mining Awards. A[…]

Rio2 Ltd has announced that it has taken another key step towards the development of its Fenix gold project in Chile by selecting the following lead contractors: Process plant/site infrastructure construction contractor – HLC Ingeniería y Construcción Leach pad and civil design contractor – Anddes Asociados SAC Civil earthmoving and construction contractor – STRACON SA[…]

Primero Group has been awarded preferred EPC status on a substantial contract with Strandline Resources on the Coburn mineral sands project in Western Australia. The total volume of awarded engineering procurement and construction (EPC) works totals around A$150 million ($107 million), according to Primero, and follows an initial eight-week Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) process that[…]

Metso Outotec has signed a major contract with Zijin Mining Co Ltd for the delivery of key minerals processing equipment of the company’s Qulong copper mine project in Tibet, China. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery covers a powerful 58 MW grinding circuit equipped with horizontal and vertical grinding mills, process automation and various types of[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has matched its decades of engineering expertise with Artisan Vehicle Systems’ 18 years of innovative powertrain technology and battery system expertise to come up with the new 18 t payload LH518B battery-electric loader. Sandvik acquired Artisan last year, in the process gaining 10 years of mining battery-electric vehicle (BEV) deployment[…]