Epiroc continued to register strong demand for its equipment in the December quarter, with the mining OEM’s order intake increasing both in the underground and surface mining segments, the company reported today. Headline numbers from the December quarter included a 1% year-on-year increase in orders received to SEK9.3 billion ($1.1 billion), a 5% drop in[…]
Yamana Gold says it is evaluating the installation of a backfill plant at its Jacobina gold mine in Brazil (pictured) in a move that would reduce the asset’s environmental footprint, as well as extend the life of the operation’s existing tailings storage facility. The backfill plant would allow up to 2,000 t/d of tailings to[…]
In an industry first, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded China Merchants Industry (CMI) Approval in Principle (AIP) for its deep-sea mining system design. The AIP follows publication of the ABS Guide for Subsea Mining in October 2020 and is the first to be issued that conforms to the new Guide. ABS is[…]
K2fly Ltd has announced that Alcoa USA Corp has signed a five-year SaaS contract, for its RCubed Resource Inventory solution, to roll out to six sites globally. Alcoa is one of the world’s largest bauxite miners with high quality reserves, including mines in Australia, Brazil, Guinea and Saudi Arabia. Alcoa owns and operate two mines[…]
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions’ Asia-Pacific region has further strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Wayne Scrivens as Vice President, Sales Area APAC. An experienced mining-sector leader, Scrivens has held the role of Sandvik Vice President for Load & Haul product line for four years, based in Turku, southern Finland. During this time,[…]
Ten companies and consortia have been selected to advance to the laboratory test stage of the ‘BHP Tailings Challenge’, which is seeking solutions and new business models to reuse copper tailings. The company’s call was launched on June 16, 2020, with a total of 154 applications from 19 countries received. The challenge, conducted with the[…]
Schlam has teamed up with global steel giant SSAB to offer its Hercules dump truck bodies with Hardox® wear plate. The move follows Schlam being accepted into the Hardox In My Body program. Glenn Brearey, General Manager of Schlam Payload Solutions, said the company is choosing to use Hardox steel due to its wear resistance,[…]
Coal is still booming in India and highwall miners are a part of that to the point where one of the country’s leading Cat dealers, Gainwell, is now making these machines under license from Caterpillar over four years after it discontinued the business. IM Editorial Director Paul Moore spoke to Gainwell’s Dipankar Banerjee, Chief Operating[…]
Nord Gold UK Societas, the internationally diversified gold producer, expects to increase mining and processing capacity of its largest mine, the flagship Gross mine (Yakutia, Russia), by approximately 24% to approximately 18 Mt of ore per year from the third quarter of 2021, up from 14.5 Mt of ore processed in 2019, following the completion[…]
Centric Mining Systems has been acquired by Datamine, the wholly owned subsidiary of Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software. Centric Mining Systems will remain as an independent business under the Datamine umbrella and retain the Centric brand. Centric stated: “We will continue to work closely with our customers maintaining the consistent high levels[…]