Archives: Coal technology

The Thiess team at the Melak coal mine in Indonesia, celebrated the opening of the new Benggeris workshop with an inauguration ceremony in December. The new workshop is located closer to the Benggeris pit than the original workshop, which allows the team to more effectively support the work in the pit and deliver for the[…]

Increased time between overhauls, effective reduction of fuel consumption and costs as well as savings in carbon emissions; crowned by unbeatable aftersales support. Rolls-Royce says this was the result of a repowering of haul trucks at one of Yancoal’s open-cut coal mines in Australia’s Hunter Valley with state-of-the-art mtu engine solutions by Penske Australia. It adds that[…]

Teck Resources Ltd has announced today the reorganisation of its business to separate Teck into two independent, publicly-listed companies: Teck Metals Corp and Elk Valley Resources Ltd. The separation it said “will create two world-class resource companies and provide investors with choice for allocating investment between two businesses with different commodity fundamentals and value propositions.”[…]

Enefit Power, a subsidiary of state-owned energy group Eesti Energia, is investing in a fleet of 20 Sandvik loaders for its operations in Estonia. Enefit is the biggest energy producer and also one of the biggest producers of renewable energy in the Baltics. The company is a major underground oil shale miner & has selected[…]

Hexagon’s Mining division says it has been awarded an eight-year fleet management project by PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama (BUMA) in Indonesia. As part of this project, Hexagon successfully deployed 150 units of HxGN MineOperate OP Pro to BUMA’s IPR site operation in Indonesia with the system optimally running within three months, the company said.[…]

Following the initial news that broke almost exactly a year ago in February 2022 that Caterpillar was divesting its underground coal longwall business to water hydraulic systems major Hauhinco Maschinenfabrik based in Sprockhoevel, North Rhine-Westphalia, details have finally emerged of the new longwall company, which is Hauhinco Bergbautechnik or HBT. Its main bases are in[…]

In January 2023, Karunia – a Liebherr Indonesia customer – signed an agreement for the purchase of four additional units of the R 9300 mining excavator for Tabang coal mine, located in the Kutai Kartanegara Regency of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. These four excavators will be delivered from late 2023 to early 2024 and will join[…]

Orcoda Limited says its wholly-owned subsidiary Orcoda Resource Logistics has signed a software as a service (SaaS) contract with Kestrel Coal Pty Ltd. Kestrel is one of the world’s largest producing underground metallurgical coal mines that produces around 7 Mt/y of metallurgical coal from its mine in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia. The Orcoda[…]

Caterpillar’s 994 wheel loader has been a leader in its size class since it was first introduced in 1990. Now the company is set to enhance its offering with a step up to the all new Cat® 995 Wheel Loader which it says will deliver more payload, more power and more performance while using less[…]

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan has agreed to transfer all of its coal mining interests (85%) in the Ensham Coal mine located in Queensland, Australia, held through its wholly owned subsidiary Idemitsu Australia Pty Ltd to Sungela Pty Ltd, which is 75% owned by South Africa’s Thungela Resources Ltd, the thermal coal miner demerged from Anglo American[…]