Archives: Bulk handling

Glencore’s Onaping Depth is a major new nickel and copper mine set to start production in 2024 but first discovered in 1994 located in the north-western portion of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) in Ontario, underneath the existing Craig mine but also near the Fraser mine and the Strathcona Mill. It is estimated to contain[…]

On May 18, XCMG Brasil, part of China’s Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co Ltd (XCMG), one of the world’s largest construction and mining equipment suppliers, signed a contract for supply of its mining machinery to iron ore, nickel and copper mining major, Vale. The signing ceremony took place at the XCMG Brasil site in Pouso[…]

In Chile, Finning has announced that it will deliver 13 Caterpillar 798 AC electric drive off-highway trucks (410 ton/372 t class) to Codelco’s Ministro Hales open pit copper mine and support the fleet under a 10-year maintenance and repair contract. It expects to start delivering the new trucks in the second half of 2022. These[…]

ABB has launched ABB Ability™ NGX Hoist Control, an automated, digital hoist control system evolved from ABB’s reliable and proven past generations of hoist control systems, to enable mining companies to operate hoists with high levels of performance and safety using a standardised platform worldwide. The company says it brings new levels of reliability, flexibility[…]

Metso Outotec and Malvern Panalytical have signed a collaboration agreement to, the OEM says, provide sensor-based bulk ore sorting solutions to the mining industry. The combination of the companies’ expertise in crushing and bulk material handling solutions, and ore analysers enables the parties to offer an industry-leading portfolio of solutions for bulk ore sorting, Metso[…]

Rio Tinto and bp have agreed to work together on a one-year biofuel trial to help reduce carbon emissions from Rio Tinto’s marine fleet. Under the trial, bp is supplying Rio Tinto with marine biofuel for approximately 12 months. The fuel will be trialled on Rio Tinto’s RTM Tasman vessel on a mix of Transatlantic[…]

The Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine in Mongolia has positioned itself as a leader in autonomous operation by rolling out the Sandvik AutoMine® system for its underground operations. Co-owned and operated by the Rio Tinto subsidiary Turquoise Hill Resources, the mine sits on one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits in the[…]

BEML Limited, a Govt of India undertaking under the Ministry of Defence and the country’s leading domestic surface mining equipment manufacturer has signed an important contract with Coal India Ltd for supply of a 20 m³ electric rope shovel, a new model called the BRS-21, for deployment in the mines of Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL).[…]

In a presentation at the Bank of America Securities 2022 Global Metals, Mining & Steel Conference, BHP CEO Mike Henry talked up the potential for potash and decisions it has made to accelerate final development of its Jansen project in Saskatchewan, Canada, which in Stage 1 is expected to produce approximately 4.35 Mt/y of potash.[…]

About 1.2 million litres of diesel per year is what is consumed on average by a large mining truck, which causes the emission of 3,500 t of greenhouse gases (GHG), for which it is essential to look for clean alternatives, if the industry wants to meet its decarbonisation goals. In this context, a Mining Trolley[…]