Archives: Coal technology

Caterpillar announces it will deliver a complete armoured face conveyor system upgrade to Siberian Coal Energy Company, SUEK, for its V. D. Yalevskogo Mine, located in the Kemerovo region, Siberia, Russia. The order includes the Cat® AFC PF6 Armored Face Conveyor, BSL PF6 Beam Stage Loader, SK1114 Crusher Station, SMB 1600/3500 Belt Return Units, and[…]

Golding Contractors Pty Ltd has signed a contract with Aberdare Collieries Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of CS Energy Pty Ltd (CS Energy), to extend the current Contract Mining Agreement (CMA) at the Kogan Creek Mine in Queensland, Australia, to beyond June 30, 2022. Under the terms of the CMA, the term is extended four years[…]

On November 8, 2021 a delivery ceremony for the first set of Weichai 150 t large mining trucks to the coal miner Shenhua Wuhai was held in Yangzhou. The Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group and the Chairman of Weichai Group Tan Xuguang delivered a “Golden Key” to the[…]

Siberian coal mining giant Kuzbassrazrezugol (KRU, part of mining major UMMC) says it is now completing a major renewal of its main equipment fleet. More than a dozen large crawler bulldozers have already begun work at the company’s open-pit mines including no less than 12 Caterpillar D10T units across several mines plus three domestically made[…]

Mastermyne’s contract mining growth ambitions became very clear in September when it proposed a buyout of contractor PYBAR Mining Services in a deal valuing PYBAR equity at A$47 million ($35 million). The deal, which has just completed, sees Mastermyne, up until this point a company focused on the Australian coal sector, expand into the domestic[…]

Thiess says it has secured a three-year A$220 million ($164 million) contract renewal to continue providing mining services at PT Wahana Baratama Mining’s coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Having operated at the project since 2007, Thiess will provide full mining services for Wahana, which is owned by Bayan Resources, including mine planning, environmental and[…]

Bens Creek Group Plc, the owner of a namesake met coal mine in North America, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Ben’s Creek Operations LLC, and Mega Highwall Mining LLC have entered into a contract mining services agreement. MHW will be responsible for the production of BCO’s metallurgical coal reserves for an[…]

A new agreement between Komatsu and PIMS Group, a north Queensland-based mining services operator, could help set a benchmark for extending the life of multiple Queensland coal mines, the pair say. PIMS Group was recently awarded a five-year contract to convert the idled open-pit Millennium and Mavis Downs coal mines, west of Mackay, Queensland, to[…]

The merger of Cougar Mining Group, Australian Mining Equipment, Highwall Mining Australia and Pipelion Operations into a single consolidated group headquartered in Tomago, NSW was recently announced. “The existing Cougar Mining Group and Australian Mining Equipment companies are merging together to form a new entity named Cougar Mining Equipment, bringing together our people, equipment and[…]

Hitachi is continuing its success in the Russian and CIS region – two new Hitachi EX3600 mining excavators with 22 m3 buckets and 10 Hitachi EH3500 dump trucks with a 180 t payload is being put into operation at the Vostochny open-pit mine of Sibanthracite in Russia’s Novosibirsk region as part of the group’s strategy[…]