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Weir Group continued to benefit from relatively high commodity prices, tightness in physical inventories of metals and minerals, and strong end market demand for commodities in the March quarter, registering a 22% boost in original equipment order growth in the three-month period. The company said brownfield activity and sustainability projects were behind this leap in[…]

Contractor and mining services major STRACON has announced the award of the vertical construction of the TMF (Tailings Management Facility) buttress tailings dam and the expansion of the WRF for Hudbay’s Constancia copper project in Peru, for a period of three years. STRACON stated: “Once again, we appreciate the continued trust that Hudbay has placed in[…]

It has been all change underground at Sukari for Centamin, with a switch to the owner-operator model – from contractor-led operations – likely to be followed by a transition towards an electric fleet at the gold operation in Egypt. Having successfully grown the underground reserves by 200% in 2021, extending the life of mine in[…]

ArcelorMittal Mining Canada says it has reached another milestone in its energy transition by becoming the first mining company in Québec and the first company on the North Shore to use electric buses to transport its workers. The eight buses that will be used by ArcelorMittal were manufactured in Saint-Jérôme by the Lion Electric Company.[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing AutoMine® Flexible Safety Zone, a new feature for its AutoMine underground system for autonomous mining operations. The new capability is, Sandvik says, designed to improve productivity and increase flexibility by enabling alternating safety zone states between autonomous and manual operation. With the AutoMine Flexible Safety Zone, autonomous mining[…]

First Quantum Minerals is in the process of bolstering its fleet of Liebherr T 284 trucks at the Sentinel operation in Zambia, in line with a redistribution of loading equipment to better suit working areas at the copper mine. In the company’s March quarter, Sentinel reported copper production of 36,232 t, 37,177 t lower than[…]

Today, the need for extraction and refinement of copper and other transition materials is essential to world development, as we navigate a transition to more sustainable energy technologies, Saleem Varghese and Carola Sepulveda* write. But as its importance has grown, copper ore grades have decreased at a rate of approximately 25% over the last decade[…]

A new and revolutionary process, being tested for the first time in the world, has been prototyped by Anglo American at its El Soldado copper operation in Chile. The project makes it possible to reduce water consumption by naturally increasing the recovery of this resource from the tailings themselves by approximately 80%. In addition to[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd has announced the development of an enhanced boom and arm for its range of ultra-large hydraulic excavators, the improved durability of which it says will extend service life 1 by 1.5 times compared to previous models. Durability has now been improved by expanding the applicability of steel castings to the[…]

Carlton Power says it has signed partnership agreements for the Langage Green Hydrogen project to supply hydrogen fuel to two international mining and materials companies: Imerys and Sibelco. Both companies have clay mining operations within 8 km miles of the Langage site. Sibeclo’s Cornwood operation and Imerys’ Lee Moor operation both produce kaolin, mainly for[…]