Archives: Automation

Orica, the global mining and infrastructure solutions provider, has announced that it has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement with Vance Street Capital LLC (via VSC RST Holdco, LP) to acquire 100% of Canadian company Terra Insights (Terra) for C$505 million on a cash free, debt free enterprise value basis. In more detail,[…]

CRH Ventures, a subsidiary of global building materials leader CRH PLC, has announced the commencement of a pilot program with SafeAI, a global leader in autonomous solutions for heavy equipment. The pilot program aims to evaluate the feasibility and capabilities of SafeAI’s innovative technology for autonomous operations in quarrying. SafeAI’s retrofit solution utilises state of[…]

Caterpillar Inc says it has successfully demonstrated its first battery electric prototype underground mining truck, growing its portfolio of battery electric and semi-autonomous technology for underground mining applications. The demo was at its Burnie Proving Ground in Tasmania, Australia. The demonstration for Newmont and other industry leaders comes on the heels of the 793 battery electric[…]

Sat.One has announced it has won the race to successfully deploy the first ever EutelSat OneWeb Enterprise Low Earth Orbit (LEO) service in the Southern Hemisphere. As part of a three-year deal, Sat.One in partnership with EutelSat OneWeb, has deployed an Enterprise LEO broadband service to Hitachi’s Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) Proof of Concept (PoC) site[…]

Epiroc says it has won a large order from Eti Bakir for underground mining equipment that will be used at a new copper mine in Türkiye. Eti Bakir, Türkiye’s largest mining company and a long-time customer of Epiroc, has ordered a fleet of face drilling rigs, production drilling rigs, mine trucks and loaders. The machines[…]

Global miner Glencore has announced that it has joined Komatsu’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance, a collaborative effort focused on working towards the development, testing and deployment of zero-emission mining equipment and solutions. Alliance members have specifically been working to advance Komatsu’s power agnostic truck concept for a haulage vehicle that can run on a variety of[…]

A milestone has been reached to deliver a domestic supply of lithium in the UK, with three companies from the north of England – Northern Lithium, Evove and Sheers – having signed an agreement aimed at delivering the UK’s first commercial-scale direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant that combines UK-developed technology, UK sourced lithium-bearing saline brines[…]

Epiroc is expanding its digital solutions in the surface mining industry with a launch that includes a new safe blasting module and a new release of Situational Awareness, a product previously available under Mobilaris Mining Intelligence. The updated Situational Awareness release has a new feature with the capability to direct warning messages to people located[…]

In late November, the world of autonomous and battery electric underground mining got another step closer as a Sandvik automation ready 18 t class LH518iB LHD was unloaded at iron ore miner LKAB’s Malmberget mine in Sweden. The machine is now 1,250 m underground and being prepared for operation. This deployment in Europe follows the delivery[…]

Mineral Resources (MinRes) recently handed over the first custom off-road triple road train for conversion to autonomous operation by its project partners Hexagon AB. The handover, which was achieved one month ahead of schedule, is another significant milestone in the development of a fleet of fully autonomous road trains. The world-first technology has been designed and[…]