Archives: Coal technology

Start-up of Pembroke Resources’ Olive Downs coking coal project in Queensland, Australia, has edged closer after the company confirmed it had received project approvals from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The EPBC approvals, together with the grant of the Environmental Authority (EA) by[…]

Outotec Oyj and Metso Corporation have cleared one of the last major hurdles on their journey to combining with the receipt of unconditional merger control clearance from the European Commission for the combination of Metso Minerals with Outotec to create the new global mineral processing solutions giant Metso Outotec. Outotec Oyj and Metso Corporation have[…]

Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia say they are improving operational safety and productivity through the use of autonomous haulage systems in an Australian coal mine. Hitachi selected Rajant Kinetic Mesh because it is the only industrial wireless network enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, which allows autonomous vehicles[…]

Australia-based engineering-led group, CIMIC, posted “robust” operating profit margins in its March quarter results, remarking that the mining market is proving resilient throughout the turbulence caused by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue came in at A$3.3 billion ($2.1 billion) for the three-month period, slightly down on last year’s A$3.4 billion, while net profit[…]

Recently a ceremony was held to mark the completion of the second batch of XCMG GR5505 super-large mining graders at its manufacturing base in Xuzhou for customer China Energy. The machines are being sent to two opencast coal operations, where they will make their contributions to the building of nationally important mines. XCMG says sales[…]

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the country’s largest hard coal producer Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) Co Ltd in Shanxi Province has finished building a 5G network in one of its mines, heralding the coming of the 5G era in the country’s coal industry and paving the way for intelligent mining based on 5G technologies.[…]

Indian coal mining company Bhubaneswari Coal Mines has been seeing high productivity and reliability with its fleet of Wirtgen 220 SM 3.8 surface miners at its operations in the Indian state of Odisha. India has extensive coal reserves and uses them as the country’s most important source of energy, covering about half of its primary[…]

Matrix Design Group, a leading provider of technology for mining safety and productivity, has announced the introduction of an Equipment Division which features essential support products for underground coal operations. The new Division has launched with a product line of new or rebuilt Rock Dusters as well as Rock Dust Bins, Refuge Shelters and Dozer[…]

Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced today that its subsidiary, Frontier-Kemper Constructors, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $63.7 million by Warrior Met Coal BCE, LLC for the Blue Creek Energy Mine #1 project in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The scope of work includes the excavation and construction[…]

BHP, to more effectively ramp up its use of digital technologies, has opened the first of its ‘digital factories’ in Brisbane, Australia. Instead of having digital projects delivered by multiple parts of its business, the factory will create a unified ‘community of practice’ among technical roles, according to Rag Udd, BHP Acting Chief Technology Officer.[…]