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Hudbay Minerals has one of the lowest cost per tonne copper sulphide operations in Peru on its hands at Constancia, but it is intent on continuously improving the mine’s margins and environmental performance through a commitment to continuous improvement. This has recently led it to exploring the potential of sensor-based ore sorting. Hudbay’s operations at[…]

An event was recently held to celebrate the extraction of 55 Mt coal was held at Sibanthracite Group’s Kiyzassky open-pit mine in the Kemerovo region, where the best employees were also awarded with letters of thanks for their diligent work. The feat was achieved just eight years after the mine began operations. The company significantly[…]

Innovative automation focused mining equipment manufacturer Tribe Technology Group recently closed a new funding round which will be used to position the company to take advantage of high demand for its autonomous drill rigs and to develop new products. Based in Mallusk, Northern Ireland and Perth, Australia, the business is led by a team of[…]

Calidus Resources has executed an agreement with Zenith Pacific for the construction of a 4 MW solar farm with 3.5 MW battery energy storage system at its Warrawoona gold project in Western Australia. Zenith is currently constructing the 11 MW gas-fired power station at Warrawoona under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The construction of the[…]

Remote Energy has launched iON-DRIVE – the most compact, fuel-efficient solution in its anti-idle range. The iON-DRIVE is a roof-mounted DC HVAC system with a built-in lithium-ion battery bank. The battery-powered HVAC system allows the truck’s main engine to shut off at idle while keeping the cab cool, reducing unnecessary idle time. With its purpose[…]

Metso Outotec has released its largest mill discharge pump to date, the MDM900, in a move that will see it compete for orders from the highest throughput processing operations in the world. The MDM900 is the latest addition to Metso Outotec’s flagship Mill Discharge (MD) pump series, a pump designed for heavy-duty use in concentrator[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has entered into an agreement to acquire UK-based Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) from EMK Capital and Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited for £164 million ($223 million) in a deal that will, FMG says, enable it to accelerate and support the decarbonisation of its mining operations as well as establish an important new[…]

The largest copper mine in China and one of Asia’s largest is Jiangxi Copper’s Dexing, which covers an area of ​​more than 4,000 ha and has an annual output of more than 100,000 t, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s copper output at its peak. In late 2021 leading Chinese autonomous mining truck[…]

As part of a program for digitalisation of production processes in the Coal Division of JSC SUEK, a project was launched to introduce an automated production management system based on end-to-end management processes for mining and processing. The Tugnuisky mining operation in Buryatia was chosen as a pilot site. As a result of the project,[…]

Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, has announced the start of construction of an icebreaker designed to expand the company’s transportation capacity. Finland’s Helsinki Shipyard Oy signed the contracts for the supply of the main equipment for the icebreaker ordered by Nornickel, and[…]