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Global copper miner Antofagasta PLC has long been seeking a way to leach copper from primary sulphides and in a recent article says it appears to have found the answer. “Why not use bacteria like everyone else?” was a question the company was asked when, almost 20 years ago, the Michilla copper mine, then owned[…]

Global technology company ABB says it has helped Atalaya Mining to optimise mill availability and performance by combining its gearless mill drive (GMD) with ongoing lifecycle management support and a digital condition monitoring solution through a long-term service agreement (LTSA). The mining company, which produces copper concentrates and silver by-product at its Project Riotinto site[…]

Hellas Gold SA, part of Eldorado Gold, has become the first mining company in Greece to deploy Immersive Technologies’ simulation-based training, marking the 47th country where Immersive Technologies’ workforce training systems have been deployed. Immersive Technologies says it is known for providing a rapid return on investment with a proven formula that combines ‘People +[…]

An interesting insight into the strategy and self-perception of China’s leading global miner, Zijin Mining, was given in a summary of its recent 2022 ‘Work Conference.’ Aside from its leading gold mining positoin,jJust looking at copper in 2021 alone – Zijin owns an equal stake with Ivanhoe Mines in the Kamoa-Kakula project in DRC where[…]

Telstra Purple, which brings together Telstra Enterprise’s business technology services capabilities and a number of its recently acquired companies, has announced a plan to acquire two Australia-based companies with mining exposure to bolster its IoT capabilities and accelerate its industry vertical growth ambitions. Alliance Automation is, Telstra says, one of Australia’s largest independent providers of[…]

MEC Mining, the Brisbane- and Perth-based mining consultancy, has bolstered its growing capabilities with the acquisition of Western Australia’s Integrated Geological Mining Services (IGMS). Fremantle-based consultancy IGMS provides dedicated services to the resources industry and covers all aspects of exploration and mining activities, according to MEC. It will now support MEC’s expansion into the west,[…]

Rusatom Overseas JSC (a company of ROSATOM) and PJSC Seligdar recently signed an agreement on the supply and consumption of energy generated by a Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plant (SMR NPP) to develop the Kyuchus gold deposit in Ust-Yanskiy and Verkhoyanskiy districts of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The agreement signed by Evgeny Pakermanov,[…]

MEDATech has launched what it says is a rugged, space-saving thermal management unit for industrial battery-electric vehicles. Having made battery-electric drivetrains for heavy-duty equipment OEMs like MacLean, Kovatera and Muckahi Mining Systems, MEDATech’s ALTDRIVE division had accepted that a problem area in the company’s designs had long been thermal management units. “We could never find[…]

Nickel Mines Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PT Sumber Energi Surya Nusantara (SESNA) to implement, if certain economic parameters are met, 200 MWp of solar capacity within the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP). The MoU provides for SESNA to undertake the role of “Project Initiator” for developing, financing, constructing, commissioning, owning[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd (HCM) has launched ConSite Mine to the global market – a service solution that provides machine analytics to help support the resolution of issues at mining sites by using IoT to remotely monitor mining machinery 24 hours a day, and AI to analyse the operational condition of machinery. ConSite Mine[…]