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Global engineering, procurement and construction company Bechtel has chosen Latin American equipment remarketing experts Elebbre to manage an auction of its equipment from a major mines’ expansion and desalination plant construction – all underpinned by the latest auction technology from Krank. The expansion of the world’s largest copper mine in northern Chile has prompted a[…]

Alien Metals Ltd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Iron Ore Company of Australia Pty Ltd (IOCA), has selected Rapid Crushing & Screening Contractors Pty Ltd as its preferred supplier to undertake the crushing and screening operations at the flagship Hancock iron ore project in the Pilbara of Western Australia. IOCA says it has conducted a competitive market engagement[…]

WesTrac and its subsidiary Hushpak have delivered what they say is as an innovative sound suppression solution to The Bloomfield Group that has reduced the noise output of 19 Cat 793F mining trucks. Managing the sound output from heavy machinery can be a challenging task on mine sites, but this is starting to become easier[…]

Fortescue has reflected on rapid progress with its green zero emissions technology strategy in its just released Climate, Sustainability and Annual Reports. In FY23 (July 2022 to July 2023), Fortescue deployed its first prototypes on site and in June 2023, its first battery electric haul truck arrived at Christmas Creek. The ‘Roadrunner,’ based on a converted 240[…]

Marula Mining, an African focused mining and development company, has provided an update on the Blesberg lithium and tantalum mine, where the company through arrangements with Q Global Commodities is completing the acquisition of two sensor-based, XRF ore sorting plants that will now be commissioned at Blesberg in Q4 2023 and used initially to increase[…]

The Coalition for Minerals Efficiency (CEEC) has awarded the 2022 CEEC Medal for Operations to a group of researchers for their paper on the commissioning of an Eriez HydroFloat® Separator in a copper concentrator. The writers of the paper; Karina Arburo, Jaime Zuniga; Adrian McDonald and Felipe Valdes, all of Anglo American, along with Jose Concha[…]

Draslovka a.s., a specialty chemicals company, has executed a user license with Bayan Airag Exploration LLC in Mongolia for the world’s first application of its proprietary glycine gold leaching process, GlyCat™, in a commercial heap leaching application. Application of the technology has commenced to extract gold from ores mined from its Golden Hills and Limestone[…]

Having completed comprehensive internal validation of its Autonomous Haulage Solution (AHS) at Liebherr’s Mining Technology Development Centre in the USA, Liebherr Mining has announced that it has deployed a fleet of four T 264 trucks in Q3 2023 to an unnamed mine site in Western Australia to support onsite validation. This onsite validation marks a[…]

Accenture has acquired ATI Solutions Group (ATI), a Perth-based consulting service provider to the mining, energy and rail industries. ATI will enhance Accenture’s capabilities in West Australia, where specialised digital and industrial talent is in high demand. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ATI Accenture said offers clients “a broad skill set and has[…]

Boliden’s Garpenberg zinc operation in Sweden has taken delivery of Sandvik’s first Toro™ LH518iB with AutoMine® as part of a 12-month collaborative trial of the new automation-ready 18-tonne battery-electric loader. Considered one of the most modern mining operations, Garpenberg is the world’s most productive underground zinc mine and Sweden’s oldest mining area still in operation.[…]