Archives: Coal technology

South Africa-based Integrated Pump Rental has recently come to the rescue of a coal mine in KwaZulu-Natal, providing fit-for-purpose dewatering equipment to prevent flooding in the open pit. The unexpected failure of one of the mine’s own pumps came at a bad time. The national COVID-19 lockdown meant it would be some time before pump[…]

SMT Scharf AG is a leading global mining men and materials transportation solutions provider, both through its home operation in Germany supplying suspended roof monorails (diesel, electric and battery) and floor mounted (trap-guided) duorails with rack-and-pinion drives for both coal and metallic mines as well as its ownership of trackless mobile equipment manufacturer RDH Scharf[…]

The Bachatsky opencast coal mine of UK Kuzbassrazrezugol JSC (KRU, part of UMMC) has formally commissioned an EKG-18M rope shovel, the first updated model of this flagship shovel from Uralmashplant (UZTM). Toward the end of 2020 the company will supply four more machines of this class to KRU. UZTM is part of UK UZTM-KARTEX LLC,[…]

Start-up of Pembroke Resources’ Olive Downs coking coal project in Queensland, Australia, has edged closer after the company confirmed it had received project approvals from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The EPBC approvals, together with the grant of the Environmental Authority (EA) by[…]

Outotec Oyj and Metso Corporation have cleared one of the last major hurdles on their journey to combining with the receipt of unconditional merger control clearance from the European Commission for the combination of Metso Minerals with Outotec to create the new global mineral processing solutions giant Metso Outotec. Outotec Oyj and Metso Corporation have[…]

Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia say they are improving operational safety and productivity through the use of autonomous haulage systems in an Australian coal mine. Hitachi selected Rajant Kinetic Mesh because it is the only industrial wireless network enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, which allows autonomous vehicles[…]

Australia-based engineering-led group, CIMIC, posted “robust” operating profit margins in its March quarter results, remarking that the mining market is proving resilient throughout the turbulence caused by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue came in at A$3.3 billion ($2.1 billion) for the three-month period, slightly down on last year’s A$3.4 billion, while net profit[…]

Recently a ceremony was held to mark the completion of the second batch of XCMG GR5505 super-large mining graders at its manufacturing base in Xuzhou for customer China Energy. The machines are being sent to two opencast coal operations, where they will make their contributions to the building of nationally important mines. XCMG says sales[…]

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the country’s largest hard coal producer Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) Co Ltd in Shanxi Province has finished building a 5G network in one of its mines, heralding the coming of the 5G era in the country’s coal industry and paving the way for intelligent mining based on 5G technologies.[…]

Indian coal mining company Bhubaneswari Coal Mines has been seeing high productivity and reliability with its fleet of Wirtgen 220 SM 3.8 surface miners at its operations in the Indian state of Odisha. India has extensive coal reserves and uses them as the country’s most important source of energy, covering about half of its primary[…]