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AngloGold Ashanti says it is considering the use of autonomous haulage at its Expanded Silicon project, in Nevada, USA, as part of plans to leverage new technology at the in-development asset. Speaking on a roundtable discussion titled ‘Beyond the hype: how technology can drive mining operations performance’ organised by global subsurface software company Seequent, Marcelo[…]

Mining solutions specialist BME has released a new version of its Xplolog system for capturing and analysing data on blast holes and decks. BME – part of Omnia’s mining segment – developed Xplolog as a powerful tool for mines to monitor their block progress in real time, providing the necessary data to track trends and[…]

Appian Capital Advisory LLP, the investment advisor to long-term value-focused private capital funds that invest in mining and mining-related companies, has acquired an 89.96% interest in the producing Rosh Pinah zinc mine, in the Kharas region in southern Namibia, from Trevali Mining Corporation. Rosh Pinah is an operating underground zinc-lead mine with a 2,000 t/d[…]

Grangex AB says it has entered into an exclusivity agreement with OMF Fund II H Ltd for the purposes of negotiating final definitive documentation in relation to the acquisition of 100% of the share capital and shareholder loans of Sydvaranger Mining AS from Orion for a total consideration of US$33 million. Sydvaranger Mining was acquired[…]

Chile-focused copper miner Sociedad Punta del Cobre S.A (Pucobre) has selected Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions to supply a fleet of six Toro™ LH621i autonomous loaders equipped with AutoMine® Multi-Lite for its mining operations in northern Chile’s Atacama region, the OEM says. Pucobre is among Chile’s largest underground copper miners, producing approximately 38,000 t/y of[…]

Polish underground coking coal miner JSW Group has announced that a new longwall has been launched at the KWK Borynia-Zofiówka-Bzie mine in the Bzie Section of the Bzie-Dębina 2-Zachód mining area. It is currently in the startup stage. The N-1 longwall will be mined in seam 416/3 until January 2024. The length of the longwall is[…]

Western Australia-based mining product and services supplier, Schlam, is commemorating the delivery of the 300th Hercules mining dump body to one of its key customers, BHP Western Australia Iron Ore. BHP WAIO received its first Hercules body in 2018 and formalised a supply agreement with Schlam in November of the same year. Today, nearly all[…]

Metso says it has been awarded orders for the delivery of grinding plant equipment to Origin Mining Company’s brownfield Mineral Park Mill Restart project in the US. Origin Mining is managed under the Waterton Global Resource Management umbrella of investments, with Mineral Park in a historic, copper-rich mining district next to Kingman, Arizona. The total[…]

Zenith Energy has converted the preliminary works agreement and term sheet it had in place with Northern Star Resources related to bolstering the power supply to the Jundee gold mine in Western Australia with a renewable energy Power Purchase Agreement. Jundee is an existing mining operation that will have wind, solar and battery retrofitted into[…]

The economics of surface mining require the highest production at the lowest lifetime cost per ton (CPT). By combining outstanding build quality with multiple features designed to improve fuel efficiency and reduce downtime, the new 4,400 hp (3,281 kW) Komatsu 980E-5SE electric drive 400 ton class mining truck the leading OEM says offers increased speed[…]