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Boliden’s Garpenberg zinc operation in Sweden will become the first mine in Europe to trial the battery-electric Sandvik LH518B LHD, the OEM has confirmed. Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and Boliden have agreed on a 12-month collaborative trial period for the new 18-t battery-electric loader. Garpenberg is considered the world’s most productive underground zinc mine[…]

Thriveni Earthmovers and client NTPC, India’s largest electricity producer, have celebrated the start-up of a new in-pit crushing and conveying (IPCC) system and Coal Handling Plant (CHP) at the 15 Mt/y Pakri Barwadih mine in Jharkand with the system having begun trial operations. The IPCC system was supplied by Germany’s TAKRAF and in-country subsidiary TAKRAF[…]

Recently, China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry signed a contract for delivery of two sets of 3,000/4,000 t/h bucketwheel stacker-reclaimers with global manganese major Comilog in Gabon. Comilog is specialised in manganese mining and is the largest manganese mining company in Gabon, the second largest exporter of manganese ore in the world, and is part of[…]

Burgex Inc Mining Consultants has announced newly acquired in-house capabilities to provide high accuracy mapping of surface and underground mine workings with the addition of the ExynPak from Exyn Technologies to its fleet of mining and mineral exploration solutions. With a gimballed Velodyne LiDAR sensor and the ability to provide real-time 3D mapping with survey-grade[…]

TNG Ltd says an integrated design layout for its flagship Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia has been developed and delivered by Australian engineering and construction company, Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd. As announced in October, TNG appointed Clough to work with its project team and SMS group for Mount Peake[…]

NextSource Materials has awarded a power supply contract to independent power producer CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) for the long-term supply of solar and thermal generation to power the operations of its Molo graphite project in Madagascar. The contract is for a 20-year term and has been designed to scale with the production output of the Molo[…]

Gekko Systems says it has executed a construction contract with Group 6 Metals Limited for the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of the processing plant and related facilities for the redevelopment of G6M’s 100% owned Dolphin Mine, located on King Island, Tasmania. The contract, which has a value of approximately A$49 million ($35 million), anticipates[…]

The Metals Company (TMC) recently entered into an agreement with Kongsberg Digital, a leading provider of high-technology systems and solutions for the oil and gas, merchant marine, defense and aerospace industries. In advance of TMC’s initial nodule collector drive test in the Atlantic Ocean planned for early next year and followed by full pilot collection[…]

Epiroc has launched a new tube drilling system – ET51 which replaces the previous T51 tube drilling system. This new system greatly outperforms traditional speed-rod systems and it says allows for straighter and deeper production drilling plus improves service life. Unlike its predecessor, ET51 comes with only one tube type which simplifies procurement and management.[…]

Norwegian deep sea mineral exploration company Adepth Minerals AS has received a NOK11.7 million grant from Innovation Norway – triggering investment in state-of-the art FlexiCore technology and enabling collection of deep sea mineral core samples in 2022. Together with cooperation partners Seabed Solutions and DeepOcean, Adepth Minerals will develop FlexiCore – a core sampling solution[…]