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Momentum with Emeco’s Pit N Portal (PNP) underground contract mining business it says is accelerating, with activity levels continuing to increase in line with expectations. “We are seeing steady growth in demand for our underground mining fleet and good momentum in mining services activity.” However, the company now anticipates that H2 2021 earnings will be[…]

BQE Water Inc, a leader in the management of mining and metallurgical waste streams, says it has advanced the SART plant it designed for a gold metallurgical facility owned by Zhaojin Mining Industry Company, one of the largest gold smelting and leading gold producers in China, to full production. Located in the Eastern coastal province[…]

JRC, a Peruvian company dedicated to the development and construction of mining projects and infrastructure works for mining, has recently purchased six HiLight V5+ light towers from Atlas Copco. Atlas Copco says the units “have been proven to be the perfect solution for JRC’s operations at the Iscaycruz mine in Peru, where the altitude conditions[…]

Chilean-based global explosives major Enaex is introducing its Vertex explosives formulation for the first time in Peru’s mining industry, which it says will have a great impact on downstream results.​ The Vertex formulation has higher energetic power with pure ammonium nitrate (99.9%) in its composition, but with​ green technology used in the AN production. ​It[…]

Foran Mining Corporation says its 100% owned McIlvenna Bay deposit will become the world’s first carbon neutral copper development project. The company has partnered with leading carbon measurement and sustainability advisory firms, Carbonzero and Synergy Enterprises, to accurately record its emissions and purchase verified offsets for the carbon emitted from all exploration activities over the[…]

Nokia has announced it is partnering with Claro Chile to equip the new Gold Fields Salares Norte mine with a high-performance private wireless network. The solution will support the automation of mining operations in different applications, such as trucks, excavators, drills and in the future, drones. Being deployed is a private LTE/4.9G solution, including AirScale[…]

With an assembly line in China, Liebherr says it is expanding its capacity for the production of hydraulic cylinders in the Components Division. These are destined for the Chinese market and can from now on be manufactured directly in Asia. Liebherr currently manufactures earthmoving machinery and drive components at its Dalian site. With the TÜV[…]

Scatec has entered into a lease agreement with mining company Torex Gold for a 8.5 MW solar plant to provide renewable power to the Morelos Media Luna and El Limon Guajes projects in the Guerrero Gold belt 180 km southwest of Mexico City. “We are very pleased to have entered into this agreement with Torex[…]

Sierra Metals Inc says its Board of Directors has approved the investment by the company of $28 million for the construction of a magnetite processing plant including an initial expenditure of $5.2 million for early procurement and contracting on the project. The plant is expected to produce approximately 500,000 t per year of 62% iron[…]

Terra Nova Technologies (TNT) has announced that it has been awarded the supply of two 72 in (1,829 mm) wide by 250 ft (76 m) long Super Portable® mobile stacking conveyors by a top tier mining customer for a large copper mine in the USA. This equipment will expand an existing Super Portable heap leach[…]