Archives: Coal technology

South African opencast coal mining subcontracting company Atlantis Mining continues to grow its fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment supplied by Babcock. Quintin O’Reilly, Equipment Sales Representative for Babcock, says that Atlantis Mining’s recently purchased eight new Volvo R60D rigid haulers are the first to be sold in South Africa, and will be put to the[…]

FLSmidth, together with several partners, has been awarded a 2020 Horizon grant (EUR 1.4 million in total, EUR 740,000 to FLSmidth) that will allow its Mining Flotation team to enhance its fundamental knowledge of flotation technology through the help of five PhD students and world-class flotation scientists. In recent years, FLSmidth has participated in targeted[…]

Mining3’s “Top of Coal” technology is heading for commercialisation after the company signed an agreement with CR Digital for the next phase of the innovation’s development. The announcement comes on the back of promising new results delivered from the most recent trial in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, where the technology was tested over 12[…]

Caason Group says it and LDO Group are to explore next-generation technology to improve underground mining operations with a renewed commercial relationship. LDO, based in New South Wales, Australia, is a mining industry innovator and tunnelling expert, according to Caason. It is has been the exclusive distributor of Canada-made Rokion battery-powered vehicles in Australasia since[…]

Resources logistics provider Bis has been awarded an extension to its long-term contract with AGL Macquarie (AGL), which will see it continue to provide equipment hire and site services at the company’s two power generation facilities in the upper Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. Bis has provided mobile plant and site services,[…]

The ongoing autonomous pilot project using Caterpillar trucks at Highland Valley Copper (HVC) in British Columbia, owner Teck Resources told IM “has progressed well in terms of safety, increased productivity and cost reductions, which is needed to enhance the feasibility of extending HVC’s mine life to 2040.” Originally, six new 793F CMD autonomous trucks were[…]

Five SANY excavators, including two SY750Hs, two SY500Hs, one SY215C, and one SRT95C rigid-body mining truck, have recently been delivered to two large coal mines in Indonesia, the China-based equipment manufacturer reports. The latest delivery, the SY750H, the largest-tonnage SANY excavator in Indonesia at 76 t, added to the SY500Hs and SY215Cs already on site.[…]

The Solntsevsky coal mine in Sakhalin, Far East Russia, the key coal mining asset of East Mining Company (EMCO), increased its coal production by 33% in the first six months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. The production exceeded 5 Mt compared to the same period last year when 3.8 Mt were[…]

Fenner Dunlop ACE has been contracted to deliver an overland conveyor system for Anglo American’s Aquila coal project in Queensland, Australia. Aquila is an underground hard coking coal mine near Middlemount, which will extend the life of Anglo American’s existing Capcoal underground operations by six years. It comes with an expected capital cost of $226[…]

The National Mining Association (NMA) has recognised the Usibelli coal mine (UCM), in Alaska, USA, with its CORESafety® certification. CORESafety is the NMA initiative with the objective of zero fatalities and a 50% reduction in mining’s injury rate within five years. Usibelli joins 10 other companies whose operations have been independently certified under NMA’s signature[…]