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The ASI Mining Board of Directors has announced the hiring of Diederik Lugtigheid as President of ASI Mining. Diederik joins ASI Mining from Roy Hill, where he was serving as Director for the AHS implementation at Roy Hill iron ore mine in Western Australia since 2021. In that role, Lugtigheid worked with ASI Mining and[…]

PYBAR, part of Metarock Group Ltd, has been rewarded for its last two years of service at the Eloise copper mine in Queensland, Australia, having now been awarded a four-year services contract. Since arriving on site in 2020, PYBAR says it has set the standard in safe and efficient delivery of underground mining services and[…]

Zenith Energy has converted the Letter of Award it signed with Liontown Resources to supply electricity to the Kathleen Valley lithium project in Western Australia into a Power Purchase Agreement. The PPA will see Zenith supply the project with electricity for a period of 15 years as part of a 95 MW hybrid power station[…]

Duratec says it has secured a major contract with BHP WA Iron Ore (BHP WAIO) that will see it carry out wharf remediation works at the BHP Berth C&D at Finucane Island, in Port Hedland, Western Australia. The A$48 million ($32 million) project award follows a successful competitive tender (following early engineering input by Duratec’s[…]

Thiess says it has received contract extensions in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, at the Wahana coal mine from Bayan Resources and at the Hanoman coal mine from PT Cakrawala Langit Sejahtera , which mines the pits in the Satui area owned by Arutmin, part of Bumi Resources. With a combined value of A$480 million ($320 million)[…]

Digital Terrain says it has completed the acquisition of Magman Mining Software from the founding shareholders. Magman is a widely accepted standard across the industry for paperless explosives magazine management, among other applications. The Magman system provides statutory managers with the platform and tools to ensure their explosive magazines are compliant with the regulators requirements.[…]

Monadelphous Group has secured new contracts and contract extensions in the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors totalling approximately A$110 million ($74 million). The company says it has been reappointed to the BHP WAIO Site Engineering Panel for a three-year period to continue providing multi-disciplinary services at BHP’s mine site and port operations in the Pilbara[…]

Primetals Technologies, Mitsubishi Corporation, Fortescue and voestalpine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at designing and engineering an industrial-scale prototype plant with a new process for net-zero-emission ironmaking at the voestalpine site in Linz, Austria. The collaboration will also investigate the implementation and operation of the plant, the companies say. The new ironmaking[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has launched a highly-automated, compact, twin-boom drill for underground development and small-scale tunneling. The Sandvik DD322i is described as “a versatile drill that can be utilised in mining or tunnelling applications, and provides a high level of performance, accuracy and reliability.” The Sandvik DD322i has a new carrier and design,[…]

Thiess has secured an agreement with Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) to extend its current mining services contract and to provide fleet hire services at Sangatta mine, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. With revenues of A$210 million ($141 million) and commencing in January 2023, Thiess will expand its services from land preparation, load and haul, asset management and[…]