Archives: Base metals

CPB Contractors has been selected to deliver the BHP Nickel West Mt Keith Debottlenecking Project’s Structural Mechanical, Piping, Electrical & Instrumentation (SMPE&I) work package near Leinster, Western Australia. The project will generate revenue of approximately A$105 million for CPB. The project will provide additional grinding capacity to meet the processing requirements of ore with different characteristics.[…]

Its its just released 2022 Climate Change Report, global diversified miner Glencore outlines some details with regard to its approach, both near and long term, to reducing its Scope 1 carbon emissions. It says: “While most of our more immediate abatement opportunities are associated with the reduction of our Scope 2 emissions, we have identified[…]

Epiroc says it has won a large order from JCHX Mining and Construction Ltd for equipment to be used at the Kipushi underground project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kipushi is an underground mine that is reopening under the leadership of Kipushi Corporation, a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines of Canada and Gécamines,[…]

The Chairman of the Board of Codelco, Máximo Pacheco, together with the Executive Chairman of the Corporation, André Sougarret, met this week with the Chairman of the Board of the Japanese company Mitsui & Co Ltd, Tatsuo Yasunaga, who was visiting Chile. At the meeting, they addressed different issues of interest to both companies. They[…]

With the world moving gradually towards a circular economy, responsible waste management is becoming increasingly important in the mining industry. According to a study published by a cohort of Finnish researchers, tailings are the biggest waste stream resulting from mining, in metal value and volume. Benedikt Sobotka, CEO of Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Co-Chair[…]

At the request of Udokan Copper, MegaFon has designed and built an industrial wireless LTE (pLTE, Private LTE) network of six base stations and set up redundant communication channels at the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant (MMP). The infrastructure provides coverage across the whole site with both 4G and Private LTE, according to the company.[…]

In its 2022 Annual Report, released today, Weir Group reviews its performance from several angles – financially, strategically and of course from a sustainability standpoint. It says with large greenfield expansion projects slow to convert, miners met demand by accelerating production from existing assets and by developing harder and more complex ore deposits. Group revenue was[…]

Komatsu-Mitsui Maquinarias Perú (KMMP) and copper miner Minera Antamina have entered into an important commercial agreement that KMMP says “also becomes a commitment to the future of mining and development in Peru.” It involves the acquisition of a fleet of 20 Komatsu haulage trucks, model 980E-5SE, with a load capacity of 400 tons. These are[…]

The industry has been told continuously that there are plenty of synergies between automation and electrification when it comes to loading and haulage, yet the hard evidence of this complementary nature has not yet surfaced. That could be about to change if a trial at Vale’s Creighton mine in Sudbury, Ontario, proves successful. Vale has[…]

Mining services major Thiess has announced that it has secured a four-year ore hauling contract with Weda Bay Nickel, the largest nickel player on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia. PT Weda Bay Nickel is owned 90% by Strands Mineral (held by Eramet 43% and Tsingshan 57%). PT Antam owns the remaining 10%. The contract, valued[…]