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Clean technology company, Verditek plc, has won its first order from the Australia mining sector, agreeing on a contract to supply its PowerMat solar solution to InterGroup Mining Ltd. The contract win is in line with Verditek’s stated strategy to target verticals in the oil & gas, marine and mining industries, it said. Verditek’s PowerMat[…]

Rolls-Royce and its agent Penske Australia have signed a contract with Contract Power for the delivery of 15 medium speed gas gensets from Rolls-Royce’s Bergen Engines brand to power the Iron Bridge Magnetite Project in Western Australia, an unincorporated JV between Fortescue Metals Group subsidiary FMG Iron Bridge and Formosa Steel IB. The gensets are[…]

CIMIC Group’s Thiess has been awarded a contract extension by Glencore to provide mining services at the Mount Owen coal operation in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. The 18-month contract extension, to commence in July 2021, will generate revenue of A$340 million ($240 million) to Thiess. Thiess will continue to provide mine[…]

BQE Water says it has successfully completed the commissioning and performance test of the first industrial scale plant using its patented Selen-IX™ process for selenium management. The installation at the Kemess property in northern British Columbia, Canada, owned by Centerra Gold has, since late August 2020, operated continuously. It has treated 65 litres/s (5,600 cu.m/d)[…]

Step by step, automated driving is increasingly becoming a feature of our mobility. With each step, ever larger data volumes need to be processed fast to allow quick reactions to any given situation. AT&S is developing a robust and resilient interconnect concept for a high-performance computer chip. In order to meet these requirements, a very[…]

A fundamental step for the acceleration of innovation in Chile, thus promoting technology transfer to the industry, is one recently carried out by the Integrated Pilot Center for Mining Technologies, CIPTEMIN, together with Chile’s national mining company, ENAMI; with the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement that makes available to mining supplier companies, small and[…]

Rio Tinto and Dalian Port Company Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding that could lead to the development of the miner’s first iron ore blending operation in a bonded area. The joint development within Dalian port, in China, will blend material to create Rio Tinto Blend Fines from Rio’s high-grade IOC concentrate from Canada[…]

Five 240 t Liebherr T 264 off-highway haul trucks were commissioned in early 2020 for use at the Dawson metallurgical coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The trucks were provided through MacKellar Mining, a mining contractor customer of Liebherr since 2016. Although MacKellar runs Liebherr excavators and dozers at other sites, these 240 t trucks are[…]

ABB says it has linked with the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) new Energy & Resources Digital Interoperability Industry 4.0 (ERDi i4.0) TestLab, run by Enterprise Transformation Partners (ETP), to advance Industry 4.0 open process automation standards. This includes collaboration on AMIRA Global’s P1208 Interoperability Enablement for Natural Resources project, which is designed to realise[…]

NORCAT and Vale have teamed up to launch the NORCAT Open Innovation Challenge to, they say, facilitate and enhance Vale’s capabilities to bring new, state-of-the-art technologies into its mining operations and accelerate the rate of technology adoption in the global mining industry. As current global events disrupt regular business operations and the global mining industry[…]