Nevada Copper Corp has announce a financing package providing up to $115 million to advance the ramp-up of the company’s Pumpkin Hollow underground mine, with the goal of achieving nameplate production capacity of 5,000 t per day by the end of 2023. The financing has been arranged through separate agreements with Scotia Capital, plus existing[…]
Two of the largest mining companies in the world, Codelco and BHP, are to collaborate with the objective of exchanging information in areas of mutual interest, such as the electrification of mining activities, the supply of desalinated water, stability and monitoring of tailings deposits, and the development of technologies for the decarbonisation of processes, among[…]
Global carbon reduction company First Mode and ABB have today announced a purchase order for ABB to supply First Mode with 80 BORDLINE® ESS lithium-ion battery systems. The batteries, which total 2.6 megawatt-hours, will help power the next several zero-emission mining haul trucks being developed by First Mode. “The successful testing and operation of First[…]
Metso has signed an agreement for the supply of metallic mill linings for SAG mills and Megaliner™ mill linings for ball mills to a copper and gold mine in South-East Asia. It says the customer selected Metso’s metallic mill lining solutions after a performance test. In the test, Metso’s linings achieved better grinding efficiency, higher[…]
FLSmidth says it has received an order to supply several grinding mills to a copper mine in northern Chile. This order will expand the grinding capacity at the mine, where the existing production lines already are successfully built with FLSmidth mineral processing technology. The order is valued at approximately DKK 270 million and was booked in[…]
Metso says it has been awarded an order for key concentrator plant equipment by Zijin Mining Group for its Julong copper project in the Tibetan Autonomous region. The value of the order is approximately €85 million ($93 million). The comminution circuit will be one of the highest powered in China, including a Superior™ MKIII primary[…]
For some years now, the options for a fleet scale and fully operational open pit autonomous haulage system (AHS) have been relatively limited – Caterpillar and Komatsu by far lead the way with their Command for hauling and FrontRunner systems respectively – at multiple operations around the world. Beyond that, OEM-agnostic ASI Mining working with[…]
Micromine stakeholders recently visited the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia to witness firsthand the mine control and fleet management solution, Micromine Pitram. Prominent Hill is a copper, silver, and gold mine that is part of OZ Minerals, which became part of BHP on May 3, 2023. Prominent Hill produces one of the highest grades[…]
Not a financial report goes by without Epiroc referencing its electrification offering. Whether it be new products, an uptick in customer demand or plans to roll out more battery-electric retrofit options for its customer base, ‘going electric’ has become a consistent quarterly theme for the Sweden-based OEM. Epiroc’s development timeline for battery-electric machines started all[…]
Shareholders of Metso Outotec have approved the Board of Directors’ proposal to change the company name to Metso Corporation, bringing an end to a name that was instated in mid-2020 when the two firms – Metso and Outotec – merged. The change of the parent company name Metso Corporation is effective starting May 4, 2023,[…]