Archives: Coal technology

Mechel PAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports launching the new Longwall 0-17-18 operation at its VI Lenina underground mine, which is part of Southern Kuzbass Coal Company. The new longwall’s industrial coking coal reserves are estimated at 560,000 t. The longwall is 190 m long, with an average seam height[…]

Whitehaven Coal in its recently released year to end June 2019 results said there had been some cost increases of around A$4 per tonne due to longer hauls and increased elevation of the hauls at Maules Creek as the pit continues to be expanded to facilitate optimised mining conditions for the long term but this[…]

Fitzroy Australia Resources is partnering with leading software company Commit Works to introduce digital planning and short interval control at its Carborough Downs coal mine in the Bowen Basin region of central Queensland. In keeping with its reputation for innovative and dynamic thinking, Fitzroy’s leadership team says the time is right to introduce the new[…]

Chinese construction and mining equipment giant SANY Heavy Equipment, whose mining machinery factory in Shenyang IM visited earlier this year (and which will be the subject of an in-depth article in 2019) is seeing very positive results as the mining market picks up both domestically and globally. For the six months ended 30 June 2019,[…]

Caterpillar says it will present a number of new longwall mining products and solutions at the International Trade Fair for Mining, Power Generation and Metallurgy, on September 10-13, in Katowice, Poland. Together with the regional Cat® dealer, Bergerat Monnoyeur, Caterpillar will showcase its latest technologies at its booth. The Caterpillar exhibit will feature digital presentations of new longwall[…]

SUEK is investing in its Kuzbass mines to equip substations with quick-response automatic power backup, aimed at improving their fault tolerance. The project is costing over $5 million. The introduced quick-response automatic backup activation (QABA) device was developed by Tavrida Electric, an international electrotechnical group, jointly with NPK ProMir (Russia). It is an innovative solution[…]

SUEK has been implementing a large-scale investment programme to provide the Zarechny open-pit mine in the Kuzbass with the most modern high-performance equipment. In the spring of 2018, SUEK began developing the new site at Zarechny. Over the past two years, more than $19 million have been spent on its equipment alone. In 2018, $17.4[…]

The Ausdrill Group is adopting a new brand and identity, Perenti. Perenti Global will be the trading name of the group company and listed entity and will sit above the Industry Sector Groups (ISGs); Surface Mining, Underground Mining and Investments. “The Board considers the new name and brand better reflect the Group’s status as a[…]

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions is supplying a new coal handling system to the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) in Russia. The system will be the centerpiece of a new terminal for coal exports in the Port of Lavna near Murmansk, on the western shore of Kola Bay. With a planned capacity of 18 Mt of coal[…]

BHP in its annual results to end June 2019 says autonomous truck hauling remains in feasibility across not only its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) but also its Queensland Coal sites with over 500 trucks being automated in total. Safety incidents with the automated trucks are down by over 80% and the company says the[…]