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Enerpac, a leader in high pressure hydraulic tool, controlled force products, portable machining, on-site services and solutions for precise positioning of heavy loads, plans to use the upcoming Bauma 2022 fair in Munich, Germany, to showcase not only its construction-focused offering, but solutions for handling and maintaining mining equipment. The centrepiece of the Enerpac stand[…]

When a South African zinc mine experienced a premature detonation in one of its blast holes, BME says it was soon on site to investigate the incident and apply a safe strategy to proceed. According to BME Technical Services Manager, Deon Pieterse, the cause of the detonation was the reactive ground being drilled for blasting.[…]

After a hugely successful first two Electric Mine conferences – Toronto, Canada, in 2019, and Stockholm, Sweden, in 2022 – things have really moved up another level with The Electric Mine 2023, which will return to North America in May 2023 fully charged with brand new content and a world-class speaker list.  The Electric Mine[…]

Auxilium Technology Group (ATG), a start-up connected to the University of Arizona, in collaboration with Metso Outotec, has been announced as one of two finalists in the BHP Tailings Challenge, an international competition to promote the development of new technologies to reuse mine tailings. Last year, ATG was one of 10 companies and academic research[…]

Following further exploration success, Alamos Gold Inc has upgraded its expansion plans for the Island Gold mine in Ontario, Canada. In the results of the Phase 3+ Expansion Study for Island, the company outlined a larger, more profitable and valuable operation than the Phase III Expansion Study released in 2020. This 2020 iteration looked to[…]

Dynamic Drill & Blast Pty Ltd, a Dynamic Group Holdings subsidiary, says it has executed a formal contract with Aurenne Parker Range Pty Ltd for the delivery of drill and blast services at the Parkers Range gold project in the Goldfields Region of Western Australia. Dynamic Drill and Blast has been providing services to Aurenne[…]

Kore Potash says it has signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) with SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corporation for the construction of the Kola potash project in the Republic of Congo. The HoA recognises the recent Kola optimisation study outcomes, which recently confirmed its potential to produce 2.2 Mt/y of granular muriate of potash over an[…]

Komatsu has marked the official opening of the company’s new Milwaukee campus with a tree planting ceremony attended by both Komatsu President and CEO, Hiroyuki Ogawa, and Wisconsin Governor, Tony Evers. The new 58-acre (23.5 ha) campus located in Milwaukee’s Harbor District includes a 180,000-sq.ft (16,723-sq.m) office building and a 430,000-sq.ft manufacturing facility, which produces[…]

Cummins Inc, the global power technology leader and Komatsu Ltd, the global provider of equipment and services for the construction and mining industries, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of zero-emissions haulage equipment. Building on a legacy of diesel engine partnership across a wide variety of mining and construction equipment,[…]

Designers of the Research and Development Center of KAMAZ PTC have created what they say is a unique dump truck KAMAZ-6559 intended for mining in autonomous mode. The vehicle, built in cooperation with experts of Bauman University (BMSTU) under the project ‘Development of the Line of Hybrid Self-Driving Heavy-Duty Dump Trucks for Extractive Industries of[…]