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As well as posting record underlying earnings for its financial year ending June 30, 2023, IMDEX made significant strides with deploying its newest technology, the company says. This is the first set of financial results to include revenue from global directional drilling and sensor technology company, Devico, which IMEX acquired in February. Revenue for the[…]

Barminco says it is further extending its relationship with Regis Resources Ltd, securing a A$70 million ($45 million), six-month extension at the gold miner’s Rosemont and Garden Well operations in Western Australia. With both gold mines in close proximity, it allows Barminco to continue to be agile with resourcing and equipment to provide comprehensive underground[…]

Orica’s next generation centralised blasting system, ORBS™, has made a leap into the digital world, with underground mining operations set to feel the benefits. ORBS (Omni Remote Blasting System) is now available to i-kon™ and eDev™ customers. It is designed to provide operations with the ability to safely initiate multiple development headings and production blasts[…]

Chemwatch says it has been quietly revolutionising the way the mining sector approaches chemical management, with the company ready to showcase this at the 2023 International Mining and Resource Conference (IMARC) in Sydney later this year. With a legacy spanning over three decades, Chemwatch says it has consistently been at the forefront of the chemical[…]

Boart Longyear, the leading provider of drilling equipment and performance tooling, has announced the launch of a new IMPAKT™ line of drill bits. The Rock Tools team at Boart Longyear used advanced computational modelling to identify a deadpool at the centre of traditional bit designs. This deadpool it says results in significant wasted energy due to inefficient[…]

Gainwell Engineering has delivered its first shield hauler, a 60 t class SH660 G, to metcoal mining customer Kestrel Coal in Australia. Gainwell’s Australian manufacturing hub, Gainwell Engineering Pacific Pty Ltd is in Gateshead, a suburb of Newcastle, NSW. The manufacturing business headquarters of the company is based in Kolkata, India, while the global business[…]

The next step in the integration of SP Mining – the mining-related business of Schenck Process acquired by global, high-tech engineering group Sandvik – will see SP mining entities change their names to reflect their new ownership. On October 1, Schenck Process Australia Pty Limited, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sandvik in November last[…]

Cummins Inc has announced approval of its entire line of diesel high horsepower engines across all ratings for use with unblended paraffinic fuels (EN15940), often referred to as renewable diesel, including hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). It states: “Utilising renewable diesels like HVO are shown to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission by up to 90%[…]

In the summer in Chinese mines in Xinjiang, high heat conditions of over 40°C and sandstorms are frequent which represent a major test to equipment along with high altitude; with temperatures in the winter dropping to an average of -20°C in January. Even in these conditions, Xugong-headquartered global mining equipment major XCMG says it has been[…]

xtonomy provides an advanced next-gen autonomous solution for mining and quarrying and argues: “xtonomy’s AI is the only commercially available system that is capable to navigate freely in unstructured and ever-changing environments such as in quarries. This enables autonomy for the first time also in complex dynamic sites and opens the technology to a wide[…]