Harte Gold’s wholly-owned Sugar Zone Mine in Ontario, Canada, is now benefiting from the adoption of Qdos and APEX peristaltic pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG). Having deployed the pumps in two important applications, the Sugar Zone team are now enjoying far better flow rate efficiency, along with significant reductions in both maintenance requirements[…]
AVZ Minerals Ltd has announced it has awarded a 12-week Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract to Melbourne-based engineering company, Mincore Pty Ltd for its Manono lithium and tin project in DRC. Key deliverables of the FEED study include: confirm the process flowsheet, confirm all bulk material quantities to verify pricing, confirm selected equipment[…]
One of the leading global producers of potash, Russia-based Uralkali has five mines and seven ore treatment plants in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk, in the Perm Region, to its name. As IM discovered from an exchange with Eduard Smirnov, the company’s Technical Director, many of these operations are leveraging new innovations for safety,[…]
With production at the Macassa gold mine in Ontario, Canada, set to ramp up over the next three years, Kirkland Lake Gold is, once again, bulking up its fleet of battery-electric equipment. In its just released December quarter results, the company confirmed it recently purchased five 50-t battery-powered underground haul trucks for the operation, with[…]
In its full year 2020 results announced today, KAZ Minerals says construction works at the Aktogay copper mine expansion project in Kazakhstan were affected by reduced staff availability in the first half of 2020, however, works progressed according to plan in the second half of the year as COVID-19 related restrictions were eased and the[…]
To diversify and strengthen its portfolio, Minopex, a DRA Global company, recently acquired a majority shareholding in South Africa’s UMM Contracting Services, adding underground mining services to its overall service offering. This underground mechanised mining capability provides Minopex and its clients with access to skills and experience in commodities best mined using caving methods such[…]
Anglo American has approved the construction of a coarse particle recovery (CPR) plant at its in-development Quellaveco copper project in Peru. The announcement came within the company’s 2020 financial results, which showed Anglo generated underlying EBITDA of $9.8 billion and a profit attributable to equity shareholders of $2.1 billion for the year. CPR, Anglo says,[…]
Epiroc has announced a new strategy to support the underground mining market in North America. The company has consolidated resources and application experience to approach the US and Canadian segments as one North American market. It says this new structure will help meet increasing demand for electrification solutions that deliver savings on maintenance, ventilation and[…]
Rajant Corp, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, is expanding further into Eastern Europe and the CIS with a strategic distribution agreement with Russia’s CompTek. The Russia-based reseller of network and telecommunication equipment will help support machine-to-machine connectivity and mobility in markets like open-pit mining, underground mining, indoor warehousing, ports, and other industrial markets,[…]
Metso Outotec stands out among the mining original equipment manufacturers for having publicly acknowledged ore sorting is on its radar. The Outotec business had a relationship with TOMRA Sorting Solutions dating back to 2014 when the two companies signed an agreement that would see the particle sorting company supply Outotec-branded sorting solutions to the mining[…]