Archives: Coal technology

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ArcelorMittal SA, pursuant to which Cleveland-Cliffs will acquire substantially all of the operations of ArcelorMittal USA LLC and its subsidiaries for approximately $1.4 billion. The assets acquired include six steelmaking facilities, eight finishing facilities, two iron ore mining and pelletising operations &[…]

CIMIC Group’s Thiess has been awarded a contract extension by Glencore to provide mining services at the Mount Owen coal operation in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. The 18-month contract extension, to commence in July 2021, will generate revenue of A$340 million ($240 million) to Thiess. Thiess will continue to provide mine[…]

Five 240 t Liebherr T 264 off-highway haul trucks were commissioned in early 2020 for use at the Dawson metallurgical coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The trucks were provided through MacKellar Mining, a mining contractor customer of Liebherr since 2016. Although MacKellar runs Liebherr excavators and dozers at other sites, these 240 t trucks are[…]

Energy Fuels Inc, in partnership with a team from Penn State, is to start work on a project evaluating and developing a conceptual design to allow for the commercial production of mixed rare earth oxides (REO) from coal-based resources in an environmentally-benign fashion. The company said it has been advised by the US Department of[…]

RPMGlobal says it has yet again set a new benchmark in the mine planning software industry by introducing longwall support to its Underground Coal Solutions (UGCS) software product. UGCS, RPMGlobal’s scheduling package purpose-built for underground coal operations, already supported other common mining methods, such as room and pillar. This latest release of UGCS introduces an[…]

IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently spoke to FLSmidth’s Lance Christodoulou, Global Product Manager – Flotation, about the revolutionary REFLUX™ Flotation Cell (RFC™) which is being developed together with the University of Newcastle & brings a unique design that is capable of achieving higher grades, recoveries and throughputs than any other flotation cell currently available.[…]

East Mining Company (EMCO), one of the major Russian exporters of brown coal, in cooperation with Zyfra, Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader, recently held a webinar on digitalisation in the coal mining industry. The event addressed the current trends in the development of digital technologies in the coal industry, as well as the data culture, ie[…]

A month after securing several major contracts with BHP, Monadelphous Group has announced another series of works packages with the major miner that come with a combined value of around A$120 million ($87 million). Two of the construction and maintenance contracts were awarded under its WAIO Asset Panel Framework Agreement with BHP. This includes a[…]

Australia’s only independent underground mine explosives testing facility has opened on the New South Wales Central Coast, paving the way for improvements in mine safety and innovation in the mining industry. Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW, John Barilaro (pictured), launched the first round of explosive testing at the new facility at Freeman’s Waterhole,[…]

Mines all over the world are reducing the cost of sourcing third party critical parts by either looking at better quality non-OEM options but also in some cases making them in-house. Metallurgical coal major Mechel says that its Southern Kuzbass Coal Company in Russia has started output of high-pressure hoses for use in its own[…]