Archives: Base metals

The first field follow trial of Caterpillar’s R1700 XE battery-electric loader has been deemed a success by one Glencore trial participant, with the machine anticipated to surpass the productivity performance of the equivalent diesel LHD running at Glencore’s Nickel Rim South mine, in Sudbury, Canada. Speaking in a video, Paul Kant, Glencore’s Maintenance General Foreman[…]

In order to strengthen biodiversity and create accessible nature experiences for the public, Boliden has today inaugurated the Sarkanenä Sustainability Park close to its Aitik mine in Sweden. The company’s aim is for additional sustainability parks to be introduced in connection with active or decommissioned sites, it says. Åsa Jackson, Executive Vice President People and[…]

FQM Zambia’s Kansanshi Mining operation has begun bolstering its fleet for the S3 expansion with the addition of the first new Hitachi EH4000 (number RD170) dump truck that has just been commissioned on the mine site. The Hitachi EH4000AC3 dump truck has a payload capacity of 220 t and four more units are already being[…]

In its just published updated 2022 Climate Report, global copper miner Freeport McMoRan (FCX) reveals that in mid-2023, it approved a new project to convert the fleet of 33 Caterpillar 793 haul trucks at its Bagdad mine in Arizona to become fully autonomous over the next three years. This conversion project will make Bagdad the[…]

SGS, a leading testing, inspection and certification company, has unveiled Automated pXRF (Portable X-ray Fluorescence) technology to, it says, further support its clients in unlocking future-focused solutions. Designed and developed by SGS and Evident, this solution marks a significant leap forward from the conventional, manual XRF process or the in-field pXRF service, SGS claims. The[…]

Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) and Boliden have entered into a long-term collaboration that will see the pair take on various projects, the first of which will be the implementation of an autonomous transport and load solution for a dam project in Garpenberg, Sweden. The MoU also includes an agreement by VAS to deliver an autonomous[…]

Ivanhoe Electric has published the results of an Initial Assessment (IA) carried out on its Santa Cruz copper project, in Arizona, USA, highlighting the potential to build a 5.9 Mt/y underground mining operation that uses an all-electric underground heavy mining fleet, in combination with Railveyor technology for material movement. The use of an all-electric underground[…]

Having committed to and benefitted from the use of battery-electric haulage at its Brucejack underground mine in Canada, Newcrest Mining is now looking into equipment electrification options at its Cadia underground mine in Australia. In its recently published annual report, the company confirmed it was planning for electric vehicle trials at the mine in New[…]

Perenti Limited’s surface mining business in Africa, African Mining Services (AMS), has been awarded the contract for open-pit mining services at the Sandfire Resources A4 open pit within the larger Motheo copper mine in Ghanzi, Botswana. The contract is valued at $235 million over a term of 73 months. Under the terms of the contract,[…]

STRACON has received a major contract award from Anglo American for the Quellaveco copper mining project’s ‘production of fill material and construction of the basal drain – first phase.’ It says: “This award reflects our commitment to excellence and the trust our clients place in us. At STRACON, we take pride in being part of[…]