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Canada-headquartered Kinross Gold Corporation recently announced details of its Climate Change Strategy and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction action plan, which includes the company’s commitment to working towards the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. To tackle Scope 1 emissions, it includes entering into an agreement with Komatsu to take an active role in the development[…]

Namibia’s mining scene is seeing an exciting expansion and technological innovation at a leading gold mining operation, with Kwatani supplying five mill discharge screens – all custom designed and manufactured at its Gauteng facilities. Kim Schoepflin, CEO of Kwatani, says her company has a long history in Namibia and a strong footprint across various commodities[…]

Hägglunds has launched a new drive system innovation that, it says, brings a new definition of compact to the already space-saving Hägglunds drive concept. Launching at the end of this month, Hägglunds Fusion sees an entire hydraulic direct drive system mounted on the torque arm, making Hägglunds drive system advantages even more attractive for a[…]

Cobham Regional Services has been awarded a new seven-year contract with Minara Resources (wholly owned by Glencore), to provide fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) services to its Murrin Murrin site in the eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Minara Resources is Australia’s largest cobalt producer and a major producer of nickel, and a foundation FIFO client of[…]

In another move towards Caterpillar Inc’s exit from the coal and soft rock underground mining equipment markets, it and US company Simmons Equipment based in Tazewell, Virginia have announced that the two companies have signed an exclusive IP license agreement. The agreement grants Simmons Equipment exclusive global rights to manufacture certain low seam room and[…]

Following what it says is unprecedented resilience throughout the past 18 months, TLT-Turbo Africa is now accelerating its growth globally with the signing of six new major clients and the retention of 20 existing clients who have submitted new orders to be filled in the year ahead. TLT-Turbo Africa has secured orders from six new[…]

DMC Mining Services Chile says it is expanding its fleet by adding a fifth piece of equipment in the Vertical Development sector. This latest version of the Herrenknecht BBM-1500 equipment incorporates the latest elements of innovation and technology available in the market, to deliver a service it says “with the highest standards of safety, quality,[…]

Caterpillar has been making some major strategic moves of late to focus on its core surface mining and underground hard rock mining equipment products, technologies and systems. This has included a licensing & IP agreement with India’s Gainwell Technologies, first for Gainwell to manufacture surface highwall miners in India, then more recently extending these agreements[…]

SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company –has recently opened a new geochemistry mobile sample preparation unit in Mokopane, Limpopo, in South Africa. The province of Limpopo is renowned for its platinum and palladium mines, including the nearby Mogalakwena mine – located 30 km north-west of Mokopane – which is the world’s[…]

Austin Powder, an industrial explosives and engineered blasting solutions provider, has announced the release of its new E*STAR Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging technology to improve flexibility and time savings. RFID technology makes it possible to identify the detonator without physical contact between the logger and the detonator, according to Austin Powder. The company said:[…]