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Essen-based technology company talpasolutions has raised €4.5 million ($5.5 million) in its latest round of financing to help further accelerate its expansion in key industries such as mining, construction and logistics. “Thanks to the investment, we are going full throttle into new industries,” Sebastian-Friedrich Kowitz, Co-Founder and CEO of talpasolutions, said. “Over the coming months,[…]

GHH is looking to help mining and tunnelling companies digitise their operations with a new analytics solution that can be used on any brand of equipment. GHH inSiTE, powered by talpasolutions, provides a digital performance and condition monitoring tool, as well as a baseline for the future of digitally optimised mining operations, the company says.[…]

Gold Fields is upping the safety stakes at its Tarkwa gold mine in Ghana, employing a collision avoidance system (CAS) that should reduce the number of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-personnel interactions at the open-pit operation. Having installed a fatigue management system back in 2012-2013 – which saw equipment interactions and accidents decrease – the company has[…]

VanGold Mining has signed a binding agreement with Endeavour Silver to acquire the El Cubo mine and mill complex in Mexico, accelerating the company’s transition from development to production at its nearby El Pinguico silver-gold project. With a rated capacity of 1,500 t/d, the El Cubo complex is made up of two operating underground silver-gold[…]

Ventia, a 50:50 JV between CIMIC and Apollo Global Management, has been awarded a contract to deliver comprehensive facility and asset management services to Anglo American’s Metallurgical Coal business operations in the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland. The four-year contract is expected to generate total revenue of around A$216 million and includes an option to extend[…]

Epiroc says that Minetruck Automation is coming to Boliden’s Garpenberg underground zinc mine in Sweden including autonomous tramming, high-speed operation and tramming on the ramp. “In the future, the truck will also handle long haulage distances that transition to the surface, in mixed traffic operations. Increased utilisation by continued operation over shift change and blast[…]

Brazilian steel group Gerdau has started using what it says is the first gas-powered mining truck in the history of Brazil. The Scania truck will work in the operations of the steel producer at the Varzea do Lopes iron ore mine, located in Itabirito, Minas Gerais, and operated by contractor Fagundes Construcao e Mineracao SA,[…]

Newmont Corporation and its joint venture partners have announced the successful integration of the Alumbrera gold mine, plant and infrastructure in Argentina with Yamana Gold’s Agua Rica project to create the integrated MARA project. The integration of these two assets finalises the joint venture between Newmont (18.75%), Glencore International AG (25%) and Yamana Gold (56.25%).[…]

Leading construction machinery manufacturer XCMG recently showcased its mining equipment series – including a 90 t class mining excavator which was recently delivered to the country – and intelligent autonomous machines at a special promotion event in Pouso Alegre, in Minas Gerais state in Brazil. The event marks a milestone for XCMG on its entry[…]

MacKellar Mining has almost doubled the size of its Liebherr T 264 off-highway haul truck fleet at Anglo American’s majority-owned Dawson open-pit metallurgical coal mine in central Queensland, Australia. The mining contractor has purchased another four Liebherr T 264 240 t trucks, adding to the fleet of five commissioned at Dawson in early 2020. The[…]