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The largest electric fleet of transport vehicles in the Chilean mining industry has been unveiled in Antofagasta by SQM in partnership with transport companies Viggo GrandLeasing, Transportes CVU and Andes Motor, as part of their sustainability plans to reduce their CO2 emissions, SQM says. Consisting of 34 fully-electric vehicles, the fleet includes passenger buses, minibuses,[…]

After declaring its sustainable development commitments to 2030, among which the reduction of 70% of its carbon footprint stands out, and announcing carbon neutrality by 2050,  the largest copper producer in the world Codelco has taken a new step by developing – together with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Corporación Alta Ley and the[…]

The second Doppelmayr RopeCon® system at Northam Platinum’s Booysendal platinum mine in South Africa has gone live, helping transport approximately 400 t/h of mined material over a distance of 2.8 km and a difference in elevation of -160 m. A RopeCon system has been transporting platinum ore at Booysendal since the end of 2018, with[…]

MacLean has opened the doors to its Research & Training Facility in Sudbury, Ontario, for the first time since acquiring the underground R&D lab in 2018. The company welcomed industry VIPs to tour its facility and get behind-the-scenes access to the range of MacLean product development spanning mobile equipment electrification, automation and digitalisation. Guests had[…]

Metso Outotec says it has been awarded a major order for the supply of key minerals processing technologies to a copper and gold mine project in South-East Asia. The contract value of €40 million ($43 million) has been booked to the company’s Minerals Q1 (March quarter) 2022 orders received. Metso Outotec says it has a[…]

Southstone Minerals Ltd’s 43% owned subsidiary, African Star Minerals, has entered into a contract mining and diamond recovery agreement with Oryx Mining for the Oena diamond mine, in South Africa. Oryx, at its own cost and expense, will provide and maintain all the plant and equipment as required to perform the mining services, Southstone says.[…]

China’s remote control excavator specialist BuilderX recently shipped an installation kit from Beijing to Osaka in Japan where it says the client has experienced a seamless remote installation without on-site BuilderX staff; with the remote-control technology allowing an operator to run a Japan-based excavator from China. The project is also important for the mining sector[…]

Sleipner Finland Oy says it has taken the need for improving working safety and remote training to a new level with its E-series simulator products. The company has launched both portable and static simulators to train excavator operators at mine and quarry sites, it said. The two new simulators have been created for different solutions.[…]

Kamoa Copper SA in the DRC has ordered Minetruck MT65 haulers, the world’s highest payload underground truck in the field, as well as Scooptram ST18 loaders and Boomer 282 face drilling rigs from Sweden’s Epiroc. The world-class machines will be used at the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine, where Epiroc will also provide on-site technical support and[…]

Metso Outotec says it will deliver its 100th Anode Casting Shop to PT Smelting’s (PTS) copper smelter in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. The OEM, which says it has been a frontrunner in the development of anode casting technology for several decades, says the Gresik project is a true milestone for the company. Today, most of[…]