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Outside of its most established markets of Australia and Indonesia, Chile is a key focus region for the world’s top mining contractor, Thiess. On a recent visit to Chile, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore met with Darrell White, Thiess Group Executive, Americas, at its corporate office in Santiago, to talk about its journey in the[…]

Vale says it has signed a MoU with the Port of Açu to study the development of a Mega Hub at the port located in São João da Barra in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to produce HBI (hot briquetted iron) using the direct reduction route. The Mega Hub will initially receive pellets[…]

Mineral Resources Ltd has taken delivery of a Hitachi EX3600 hydraulic excavator at its Ken’s Bore mine site, set to support its Onslow Iron project in Western Australia. The brand new excavator was transported via four trucks, travelling 1,350 km from Perth, and will be used to construct haul roads, run of mine pad and[…]

Aeris Resources says it is always looking for ways to improve the quality of its concentrate and recently its processing teams at its Tritton Copper Operations near the towns of Nyngan and Cobar in central New South Wales had a visit from Glencore Technology to install Jameson Cell technology at the mill. Tritton’s Processing Manager[…]

Damstra Holdings Limited has announced the signing of a three-year agreement, plus two one-year options, with New Hope Corporation Limited to impement its new Enterprise Protection Platform (EPP). The agreement, which has an estimated contract value of A$1.2 million ($769,255) includes workforce management covering employees and contractors as well as our solution enabling modules of[…]

DRA Global says it has secured the contract for a major design package for Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery Extension project located in New South Wales, Australia. As the preferred supplier, the DRA team will execute the detailed engineering and design and post Whitehaven’s Financial Investment Decision provide technical and project support services during the tendering, construction[…]

Minera Carola in Chile has agreed to purchase six Toro™ TH663i dump trucks to add to its fleet for its mining operations in the Atacama Region. This will be part of a total of nine pieces of Sandvik equipment the company is purchasing for its production process. “For us, the reliability and support that Sandvik[…]

Global copper company First Quantum Minerals Ltd has contracted with MECS Inc, a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, for the Kansanshi Smelter Expansion at the Kansanshi Mine in Solwezi, Zambia. The MECS scope will include a redesign of the existing sulphur-burning sulphuric acid plant into a copper smelter off-gas recovery sulphuric acid plant. This transition to[…]

Global iron ore and base metals mining major Vale recently gave its 2023 XXIII Investor and Analyst Tour of its Northern System operations, which is its high volume iron ore hub in the state of Pará, Brazil and which includes three main mining areas: Serra Norte, Serra Leste, and S11D. It also includes its Morro do[…]

In a Queensland first, crumb rubber created from giant mining tyres has been used in a trial to resurface one of Queensland’s major highways, BHP reports. The trial was a collaboration between the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), BHP and the Australian Flexible Pavement Association, with the aim to investigate if a[…]