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Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd and Mineral Resources Ltd have entered into a legally binding agreement under which they will jointly investigate the potential to develop a new iron ore export facility at Port Hedland’s Stanley Point berth 3 in South West Creek. The agreement would see Roy Hill Holdings, a Hancock subsidiary, provide services to[…]

Dynamic Group Holdings Ltd says its Dynamic Drill & Blast Pty Ltd and Orlando Drilling Pty Ltd businesses have been awarded new contracts set to generate between A$12-$14.15 million ($8.6-10.1 million) of additional revenue. Of the six recently awarded contracts, three were awarded to Dynamic Drill and Blast, and are associated with a Tier 1[…]

Austin Engineering has announced the delivery of its 1,000th truck body to Rio Tinto Iron Ore in Western Australia. The milestone was marked with a ceremony at Austin’s Kewdale-based manufacturing facility, attended by Western Australia Premier, Mark McGowan (right), Rio Tinto Iron Ore Chief Executive Officer, Simon Trott (centre), along with Austin’s Chairman, Jim Walker,[…]

The COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit has made it clear the Australian Government will largely rely on private and listed companies adopting new green technologies to hit net-zero by 2050, according to the organisers of IMARC. Nowhere will this be more apparent than in Australia’s booming resources sector, and in perhaps no other sector is there[…]

Mining products and services provider, Schlam, has been awarded a multi-million-dollar national contract to supply its Hercules dump body to BHP Minerals Australia. The tender will see Schlam continue to supply dump bodies to BHP Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) sites and BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) sites in Queensland and New South Wales with its[…]

The reach of Deswik’s mine planning and design solutions is set to extend deeper underground with Deswik.Apps, a suite of apps that will enable operators to access critical, task-specific data on a tablet or mobile device while offline working in underground operations, the software provider says. The apps, the vision of MineOps Director, Joanna Martyr,[…]

Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster has announce the launch of the Earth X-ray for Low-Impact Mining project. This project will deliver a new Discovery Platform that will help mining exploration companies to precision-target deposits beneath the Earth’s surface in a way that changes the economics of discovery and increases the sustainable production of critical mineral resources[…]

The South Australia Government says it will extend its Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) until 2025, committing another A$11.5 million ($8.2 million) to the program. The ADI provides co-financing to mineral exploration activities to attract greater exploration investment, bringing forward new mineral resource discoveries, jobs, Aboriginal employment opportunities and royalties, according to the government. It also[…]

Bemisa Holding SA has awarded Ausenco the Conceptual and Basic Engineering for the second phase of the Água Azul gold project in Pará, Brazil, the mine engineering and consultancy company says. Applying its cost-effective design approach and extensive gold project experience in the country, Ausenco says it will design a 1.5 Mt/y gold processing facility.[…]

Conveyor Products and Solutions has announced its latest investment in a new state-of-the-art facility in Western Australia as part of its ongoing commitment to the local economy. This new facility will house a number of innovative technologies and complement CPS’ existing operations, thereby strengthening its Australian manufacturing capability, the company said. Present for the foundation[…]