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CR has announced a new partnership with KBSS to bring CR’s custom-made conveyor systems to the Pilbara of Western Australia. KBSS is now CR’s Pilbara-based partner for mining conveyor systems, a company fully ISO accredited to Quality Management Systems, with, CR says, a reputation for delivering safe, reliable and cost-effective outcomes. As part of the[…]

The adoption of new technologies is often a long and sometime difficult road, but synthetic pendants are now being seen as a proven technology in dragline operations with a long list of demonstrated benefits. Today, both Synthetic Main and IBS pendants are available through industry rope pendant leader, Bridon-Bekaert The Ropes Group’s Tiger Blue Synthetic[…]

International Mining sat down with MMD at MINExpo 2021 for an exclusive update on its Fully Mobile Surge Loader (FMSL) – its innovative in-pit solution that acts as a mobile storage bunker between the shovel and a continuous flow of trucks. It is designed to be capable of an average fill rate of approximately 70[…]

EnviroGold Global Ltd, which describes itself as a clean technology company “accelerating the world’s transition to a circular-resource economy through the production of metals without mining,” has announce the execution of binding commercial agreements adding the Buchans River Delta Reclamation Project to its portfolio of environmental remediation and asset reclamation projects. The Buchans project includes[…]

The integration of the Liebherr D9816 engine into the new 305 t T 274 mining truck, a trolley version of which was shown at MINExpo 2021, marks an important milestone for Liebherr-Components and Liebherr Mining: the integration of the latest engine series in Liebherr mining equipment. The Liebherr Group’s shared in-house competencies across different product[…]

Quickly developed material technology company Betolar and JA-KO Betoni, a company reforming the concrete industry, are assisting Keliber, which is preparing a lithium mine in Kaustinen, Finland, in utilising the massive side streams typically produced in the mining industry. Tailings produced as a side stream in Keliber’s minerals processing and analcime sand produced later in[…]

Modular Mining, a Komatsu technology brand, and Immersive Technologies, a Komatsu subsidiary, have announced support for ProVision Guided Spotting for Immersive Technologies’ range of haul truck simulator Conversion Kits. The Guided Spotting simulation was developed to accelerate the deployment of Modular Mining’s Guided Spotting system without impacting production. By uniting Immersive Technologies’ and Modular Mining’s[…]

Nokia and AngloGold Ashanti Colombia, in collaboration with Epiroc, Sandvik, Tigo and OSC Top solutions, have conducted the first underground 5G mining trial in Colombia in Jerico. The statement said the successful trial “proves it is possible to safely, sustainably and efficiently deploy multiple mining use cases over a private 5G SA industrial-grade network in a challenging[…]

KGHM, the Polish copper and silver mining giant, has signed a joint commitment with the companies NuScale Power, an American leader amongst producers of small modular reactors technology, and with PBE Molecule, to develop SMR technology. NuScale’s technology for small nuclear reactors enables the production of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy. KGHM, as part of[…]

TOMRA’S XRT sensor-based sorting technology is unlocking significant value for Gem Diamonds at its Letšeng Diamond Mine. It delivered an effective solution for coarse fractions in historical tailings dumps, recovering 15 times the initial investment in four years. This success has led to the installation of the first TOMRA Final Recovery sorter in the world,[…]