Archives: Bulk handling

In addition to its big global move in July when it acquired Australia’s MacKellar Group for C$395 million, North American Construction Group has bolstered its Australian expansion by also acquiring Western Plant Hire, located in the Naval Base suburb just outside of Perth. NACG said the fully maintained fleet provider “prides itself on delivering late[…]

Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.) says it has achieved a major milestone with the removal of the safety driver in an active commercial mining operation at Brönnöy Kalk mine in Velfjord, Norway. The autonomous transport solution developed for Brönnöy Kalk consists of seven fully autonomous Volvo FH trucks and V.A.S.’s in-house developed virtual driver. Operating in challenging[…]

In 1893 only 44 of today’s 50 states formed the union, and Grover Cleveland was elected the country’s 24th President. College basketball was in its infancy, holding its first official game. And the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company opened a new manufacturing facility in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to improve and expand its production facilities.[…]

Having completed comprehensive internal validation of its Autonomous Haulage Solution (AHS) at Liebherr’s Mining Technology Development Centre in the USA, Liebherr Mining has announced that it has deployed a fleet of four T 264 trucks in Q3 2023 to an unnamed mine site in Western Australia to support onsite validation. This onsite validation marks a[…]

Gainwell Engineering has delivered its first shield hauler, a 60 t class SH660 G, to metcoal mining customer Kestrel Coal in Australia. Gainwell’s Australian manufacturing hub, Gainwell Engineering Pacific Pty Ltd is in Gateshead, a suburb of Newcastle, NSW. The manufacturing business headquarters of the company is based in Kolkata, India, while the global business[…]

xtonomy provides an advanced next-gen autonomous solution for mining and quarrying and argues: “xtonomy’s AI is the only commercially available system that is capable to navigate freely in unstructured and ever-changing environments such as in quarries. This enables autonomy for the first time also in complex dynamic sites and opens the technology to a wide[…]

Designing, building and launching the next generation of the world’s largest mining equipment represents huge commitment, cost and risk. Komatsu Mining took that step in 2013 when it launched the P&H 4800XPC AC – then and now the world’s largest electric mining rope shovel with a 135 ton payload, designed to three pass load 400[…]

Global conveyor equipment company, PROK says it is gearing up to exhibit at Mining Indonesia from September 13-16, one of the largest international mining equipment exhibitions in Asia where global and local companies will be showcasing their latest innovations. The event also serves as a professional platform to draw in industry experts from across the globe[…]

IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently had the chance to visit Anglo American’s Los Bronces Integrated Remote Operations Centre in downtown Santiago, meeting with Cristobal Mimica, Autonomy Project Manager, Los Bronces along with Victoria Madrid-Salvador, IROC Superintendent and Andres Reyes, IROC Specialist. The IROC was opened in April 2021 and takes up half of the[…]

The focus on copper leaching technology is very marked – and all the copper majors including Codelco, AMSA, Freeport, Glencore, Rio Tinto and BHP are looking at their own and third party solutions. In its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2023, BHP has outlined progress with what it calls its Full SaL[…]