Archives: Coal technology

Mastermyne Group Ltd has provided an update on an underground mining services opportunity being the Gregory Crinum underground coal mine owned by Sojitz Blue Pty Ltd. Sojitz acquired the Gregory Crinum metallurgical coal mine from BMA in 2019 and is currently mining from the open cut area, with a further strategy to investigate the viability[…]

Global mining truck major BELAZ working jointly with Russian mining company partners continues implementation of several breakthrough projects on gas-motor mining equipment. The company said the project meets mining customer aims to switch to alternative, more ecological pollution-free fuels. Joint work on the gasification of BELAZ mining vehicles has two directions – gas-diesel hybrids (dual[…]

Chinese mining truck manufacturer and technology company Aerospace Heavy Industry (AHI, part of CSSG – China Sanjiang Space Group) and Shenbao Energy (part of the top Chinese coal group CEIC – China Energy Investment Corporation, the former Shenhua Group) recently organised a successful safety review and test demo for a 5G+ driverless truck project in[…]

In September 2020, a new thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions manufacturing and service centre in Ankara, Turkey, started operations. Covering a total area of 14,000 square metres, including offices and four workshop halls for 30 employees as a beginning, this new manufacturing and service centre expands the global service network of thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions. With a local[…]

Cokal Limited has selected PT Harmoni Panca Utama (HPU) as the preferred tenderer to provide contract mining services for the development and mining of Cokal’s BBM coal project in Indonesia. Aahana Mineral Resources SDN BHD (Cokal’s largest shareholder), through its experience and influence in developing and operating coal assets in Indonesia, significantly contributed to the[…]

Ausdrill says it has just commissioned the first of four new Caterpillar MD6250 drills at the Boggabri coal operations in New South Wales, Australia. The machine has been successfully commissioned on site four weeks ahead of the contract start date, according to the Perenti company, with the help of the WesTrac team at Tomago, NSW.[…]

XCMG’s push to increase its market share in larger mining equipment is starting to pay off – the company just announced an order for a fleet of its 220 t class XDE240 AC electric drive mining dump truck worth $45 million from China Energy Investment Corp (the former China Shenhua), the world’s largest producer of[…]

On October 15, a ceremony to mark the launch of what is described as the first “high-reliability 5G private network system for mining” was held in Beijing. It has been deployed in the Baodian coal mine in Shandong Province near Jining City in the central western portion of Yanzhou coalfield which uses longwall top coal[…]

CIMIC Group’s minerals processing company, Sedgman, has been awarded two contract extensions by QCoal to continue to operate and maintain its Sonoma and Byerwen mines processing plants in Queensland, Australia. The three-year extensions will generate revenue of A$166 million ($118 million) for Sedgman. The agreements replace and extend Sedgman’s existing agreements at the mines, continuing[…]

Macmahon Holdings confirms it has been selected as the preferred tenderer to provide equipment hire and maintenance services at the Foxleigh joint venture operation in Queensland, Australia, from March 1, 2021. The Foxleigh mine is an open pit, truck and excavator operation in the Bowen Basin, which produces low volatile PCI coal for Asia steel[…]