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Eurobattery Minerals AB, a mining and exploration company with a vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethically-sourced battery minerals, has announced an extension of its ongoing collaboration with Uppsala University, in Sweden. The company has supported the university in its application to the Swedish innovation agency, Vinnova, for a project that focuses on new[…]

TAKRAF Group, through its well-known DELKOR brand for liquid/solid separation and beneficiation equipment, has announced the launch of its new generation BQR flotation cells with the proprietary MAXGen mechanism for best-in-class metallurgical performance. Maximising the sustainable recovery of minerals has become a critical success factor, at a time when the efficient recovery from less rich[…]

Freeport Resources has signed a contract with Minerva Intelligence Inc that will see the artificial intelligence focused company deploy its DRIVER AI solution at the Star Mountains project in Papua New Guinea. Freeport recently acquired Quidum Resources, which, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Highlands Pacific Resources Ltd, controls the Star Mountains project. The company thinks[…]

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering is to perform plant electrical and instrumentation works at the Rio Tinto-owned Gudai-Darri (formerly known as Koodaideri) iron ore mine site in Western Australia as part of a contract valued at over A$65 million ($48 million). The agreement will see SCEE mobilise to the Pilbara site in late 2020, with completion[…]

Engineering company Monadelphous Group says it has secured new construction and maintenance contracts with both Rio Tinto and BHP, with a combined value of around A$60 million ($44 million). The company has been awarded three three-year master services contracts with Rio Tinto for the delivery of sustaining capital projects across various mine sites and port[…]

Dynamic Drill and Blast Holdings says it has entered into a services contract with Pilbara Resources Group (PRG) and been selected as preferred supplier to Carey Mining, resulting in the delivery of work across two separate resource projects (gold and iron ore) in Western Australia. The services contract with PRG relates to the provision of[…]

Miller Technology has sealed a significant contract for its Relay battery-electric utility vehicles, with units set to start up underground at an operation owned by an Australian major miner. Having passed the evaluation stage and been selected for purchase over competitors’ units, the Relays are en route to Australia, Miller Technology’s Dean Robinson, Vice President[…]

Orica and Epiroc Rock Drills say they have successfully co-developed a prototype of the world’s first semi-automated explosives delivery system. A sought-after technology by customers in the underground hard-rock mining sector, Avatel™ will deliver a completely new way of approaching development blasting operations by eliminating charge crew exposure at the face, according to the companies.[…]

China’s Northern Heavy Industries (NHI), part of Fangda Group and based in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, says it is creating a new era for the development of coal mining equipment in China with the use of tunnel boring machines (TBMs). The Chinese group from 2016 to October 2019 also owned US-based The Robbins Company, itself well[…]

On November 17, Vale inaugurated the Pico Block plant, the first pilot plant for civil construction products made from tailings from mining activities. The plant set up at the Pico mine, in the city of Itabirito, Minas Gerais, is designed to foster the circular economy within local iron ore processing activities. After the testing period,[…]