Archives: Coal technology

Anglo American’s Metallurgical Coal business says it is now operating the first of two state-of-the art reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plants at its Aquila project in the Bowen Basin, Queensland. The aim of the RO plants is to reduce the use of fresh water in its mining operations. Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American’s[…]

Australian mining equipment rental major Emeco Holdings has reported a positive six months to end 2020 (H1 2021 of the Australian financial year), with strong earnings, cash flows and return on capital despite COVID-19 and coal conditions, demonstrating the resilience of the business. Going forward Emeco expects growth in 2021/2022 as its idle fleet of[…]

Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ local subsidiary PT ABB Power Grids Indonesia has successfully deployed the first microgrid solution in Indonesia to ensure a continuous power supply for off-grid coal mining operations at Indo Tambangraya Megah (ITM)-owned Indominco Mandiri (IMM) in Bontang, East Kalimantan. Hitachi ABB Power Grids was formed in 2020 and is held 80.1%[…]

FLSmidth has been chosen as the preferred provider for four large bolted thickeners for a large mining customer in Mozambique. Two of the thickeners are designed to reduce water load on the filters allowing for a drier filter product, while the other two thickeners recover water from the plant tailings. The installation, which includes E-Volute™[…]

RPMGlobal has upgraded its advanced mine scheduling software, XECUTE, with a Demand Chain Optimiser (DCO) module that optimises the flow of material required to satisfy customer orders all the way back to the mine for those mining bulk commodities. The company says it has been working with miners around the globe to bridge the gap[…]

An Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab has opened in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, a collaboration between the People’s Government of Shanxi Province, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Jinneng Holding Group and Shanxi Cloud Era Technology Co Ltd. The lab is intended to help coal mines in Shanxi Province reduce staffing for high-risk positions, increase efficiency, and improve intrinsic[…]

The Austmine 2021: Harnessing Intelligence Mining Innovation Conference & Exhibition is set to open the stage to a host of high-calibre guest speakers, including Yancoal’s recently appointed CEO, David Moult. Moult, who took on the role of CEO at Yancoal in March 2020 as COVID-19 entered Australia’s shores, has successfully navigated Yancoal through a tumultuous[…]

The huge Bogatyr Komir mine, the largest coal mine in Kazakhstan, located in the Ekibastuz coal basin, is a joint venture company between Rusal and Samruk Energy. It has total commercial reserves of about 3 billion tonnes of coal and provides 42% of the total coal production in Kazakhstan. The “Bogatyr” opencast coal mine was[…]

As referenced by the Embassy of Belarus in India, the Minister of Industry of the Republic of Belarus (and former General Director of BELAZ) Piotr Parkhomchik and the current General Manager of BELAZ Sergei Nikiforovich recently visited Kolkata, where the management of OJSC BELAZ and the Indian state-owned company Coal India signed a contract for[…]

Metso Outotec has convened local trade unions to negotiations concerning the restructuring and operational reduction of its operations in Sweden. The measures relate to new product strategy and business model changes and synergy targets from the Metso Outotec merger. The Swedish operations have issued a negotiation proposal, according to which the total reduction need in[…]