Archives

On August 12, Chinese mining equipment major XCMG and mining giant Rio Tinto signed a global cooperation framework agreement in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. At the same time, XCMG and SimFer Company, a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Chinalco Group, signed a statement of work for the Simandou mining project. This marks a[…]

Engineering company Monadelphous Group Limited has been awarded new construction contracts in the iron ore and renewable energy sectors, with the revenue contribution attributable to Monadelphous expected to total approximately A$340 million ($225 million). In iron ore, Mondium, the company’s engineering, procurement and construction joint venture with Lycopodium, has been awarded a design and construct[…]

Metso says it has been awarded an order to deliver grinding mills to an African copper mining project, with the order representing approximately €20 million ($22 million) of business. Metso’s scope of delivery consists of energy-efficient HIGmill™ high-intensity stirred mills with auxiliary equipment and services, it says. The OEM has experience with over 8,000 grinding[…]

Aquirian Limited says its Western Energetics operations in Western Australia have begun supplying a combined energetic and technology package to a gold mine in the state. The package includes the delivery of bulk products, initiating systems and Collar Keeper® Systems, with the package potentially contributing A$4-5 million ($2.6-3.3 million) in revenue annually. “This packaged supply[…]

Metso has signed a comprehensive frame agreement with Barrick Gold Corp’s Reko Diq Mining for key process equipment deliveries to the company’s greenfield copper-gold project in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan. Reko Diq is one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the world. The gross value of the various Metso equipment packages under[…]

BEUMER Group has been selected by Warrior Met Coal to support the expansion of Blue Creek mine, a new state-of-the-art underground longwall mine producing steelmaking coal. The extracted coal is to be processed on surface in a coal preparation plant before being moved over 14 km to a train loadout station. The BEUMER Group recently[…]

The first hydrogen-powered T 264 haul truck prototype, developed by Liebherr and Fortescue, has arrived on site at Fortescue’s Christmas Creek mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for testing in a real-life mining environment. The site-based testing of this T 264 prototype, known as Europa, will take place over the coming months and[…]

Cokal Limited’s 60% owned subsidiary, PT Bumi Barito Mineral (BBM), has signed a binding agreement with PT Cipta Bersama Indonesia (CBI) to develop an underground mining operation at Pit 1 of the BBM Metallurgical coal mine, to produce a pulverised coal injection (PCI) product. This strategic agreement represents a significant windfall for Cokal, as there[…]

Redpath piloted the first Normet Utimec XL 1100 Agitator ED, a diesel-electric 10.5 m³ capacity concrete truck, at BHP’s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia for almost a year. During this time, Normet’s experts spent several months at the mine site learning about the machine’s performance, efficiency and comfort, and developed and improved the equipment[…]

Caterpillar is presenting the first-ever Global Dealer Technician Challenge to, it says, celebrate the essential role dealer technicians play in providing an excellent customer service experience. This challenge, for independent Cat dealers that choose to participate, is designed to showcase how skilled technicians are part of a high-tech, high-impact, high-demand career. “This hands-on, skills-based competition[…]