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Tronox Holdings, the world’s leading integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide pigment, recently announced that it has entered into a long-term power purchase agreement with the South African independent power producer, SOLA Group, to provide 200 MW of solar power to Tronox’s mineral sands mines and smelters in the Republic of South Africa. These include the[…]

Murray & Roberts owns a controlling share in Insig Technologies, a rapidly growing mining centric digitalisation, electrification, interoperability and automation solutions company based out of Perth in Australia. It assists its clients – both Murray & Roberts mining platform companies, their mining clients and other miners, to produce customised, fit-for-purpose mining solutions, and in addition[…]

An update to Maptek’s SR3 MkII underground scanner as well as a new and improved underground light is helping reduce scanning tasks by more than half, according to the company. A recent trial at an underground civil site in Australia showed the combination of enhanced light and upgraded firmware allows for improved quality scan outputs[…]

Metso Outotec has launched the Ferroflame™ LowNOx burner for travelling grate pelletising plants to enable pellet plant operators to, it says, achieve the stringent nitrogen oxide emission targets with ease. The new burner is part of the company’s Planet Positive offering focused on environmentally-efficient technologies. The Ferroflame LowNOx burner uses high-speed dilution, which is an[…]

GR Engineering Services has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Thunderbird Operations Pty Ltd (TOPL) for a mineral processing plant and associated facilities for the Thunderbird mineral sands project in Western Australia. TOPL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kimberley Minerals Sands Pty Limited (KMS), which is 50% owned by Sheffield[…]

Orica has announced the release of its latest fragmentation monitoring solution, FRAGTrack™ Crusher, an automated pre-crusher fragmentation measurement tool delivering, it says, operational continuity in a safe and reliable way. Based on the success of the existing suite of automated post-blast fragmentation monitoring solutions, Orica has developed FRAGTrack Crusher to meet growing demand from customers[…]

In its recently released 2021 financial results, Fresnillo confirmed it had completed the conversion of its haul truck fleet at the Herradura gold mine in Mexico to a dual-fuel system leveraging both diesel and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company started its dual-fuel journey all the way back in 2016 when, together with Caterpillar, it[…]

Master Drilling Group’s annual results presentation provided a few eye-opening updates on the company’s mechanised mine development fronts, with Director, Koos Jordaan, highlighting a potential first deployment of the company’s Shaft Boring System (SBS) at Royal Bafokeng Platinum’s Styldrift mine in South Africa. A raiseboring specialist that has diversified into other complementary areas over the[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has partnered with Boliden on a small-scale trial of 3D manufactured parts that, the companies say, will help both companies assess the potential of 3D printing. Additive manufacturing – or 3D printing as it is more commonly known – is maturing fast, and has progressed from printing plastic components to[…]

Weir Minerals has signed a digital business framework with industrial software provider, AVEVA, with an aim to use the AVEVA PI System™ as the data foundation for the OEM’s Synertrex® digital ecosystem. Weir Minerals intends to use the AVEVA PI System to collect, contextualise and analyse data streams wihtin the context of Synertrex, its advanced[…]