Anglo American PLC says it notes the announcement by Vale SA on 28 December and confirms that Anglo American and Vale have had preliminary discussions about the potential to jointly develop Vale’s Serpentina iron ore resource that is next to Anglo American’s integrated Minas-Rio iron ore operation in Brazil. It adds: “These discussions are preliminary[…]
Severstal iron ore mining division Karelsky Okatysh said on December 27, 2021 that it is well advanced in implementing the largest project in the history of the operation – it is applying cyclical-flow technology in the mining complex – specifically an in-pit crushing and conveying (IPCC) system referred to as the CPT for which the[…]
Speaking in advance of the landmark Future Minerals Summit (FMS) in Saudi Arabia, on January 11-13, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Robert Friedland, has spoken of his excitement at the development of the largely unexplored, mineral-rich Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) region. He described the forthcoming summit as “very important” for the mining[…]
Bhubaneswar, India-based CSM Technologies has rolled out IntegratORE, which it claims to be a “first-of-its-kind integrated suite of digital mining solutions.” IntegratORE “caters to every stage of the ore’s pit-to-port journey. From ore extraction to processing, stacking, sampling, loading and its transportation to the final consumer touchpoint, this unified digital solution seamlessly tracks the movement[…]
Chile’s copper mining major Codelco has the distinction of the longest running autonomous mining truck fleet, consisting of 930E-AT haulers at Gabriela Mistral (Gaby) that have been operating since 2008. Now the company is taking its AHS program into a new phase – four new Caterpillar AHS trucks are being deployed at Division Ministro Hales[…]
FLSmidth was recently awarded a contract from Oyu Tolgoi LLC for a Tripper Car Optimisation Project. Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia’s largest copper and gold mining company, operates an overhead self-travelling tripper car in the ore storage building, that was initially commissioned in 2012. In December 2018, FLSmidth began supporting Oyu Tolgoi due to constant operational problems[…]
KWG Resources Inc and its subsidiary, Canada Chrome Corporation (CCC), have announced their receipt of an Engineering and Design Services Report from Rail-Veyor Technologies Inc. The report estimates that the capital cost of construction of a Rail-Veyor tramway system designed to transport 10 Mt of chromite ore annually over 338 km from the proposed underground[…]
Chinese-owned Peruvian iron ore mining company Shougang Hierro Peru SAS recently awarded Italy’s Bedeschi a contract for the supply of a new stacker and stockyard conveyor. The Bedeschi equipment forms part of a new expansion project at Shougang Hierro and will be installed in the San Nicolas beneficiation area, where the iron ore is processed[…]
Nordgold, the internationally diversified gold producer, has upgraded the mining fleet at its underground Irokinda mine in Russia to ensure safer and more efficient operations. A Sandvik DD321, a modern compact, two boom electro-hydraulic mining development drill rig, has already been put into operation at the Tuluinskaya-Medvezhya vein of Irokinda. The mine has also purchased[…]
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has won an C$18.5 million order for surface mining equipment from Newcrest in Canada that will optimise reliability and productivity. Automation ready, the surface and rotary drills will be used at the Red Chris open pit copper and gold mine currently in production. Newcrest has ordered two Sandvik Leopard™ DI650i,[…]