Archives: Coal technology

Germany’s FAM, the global supplier of bulk materials handling solutions for mining including bucketwheel excavators, stackers, reclaimers, spreaders, leachpad systems and in-pit crushing & conveying installations says its remains on an expansion course and has recently increased its capacity by opening a new office in India, the seventh largest country in the world in terms[…]

Tenova TAKRAF is a highly specialised supplier of machines and services in the fields of mining, materials handling and minerals processing. As such, it boasts a large base of installed machines that daily generate valuable data from which it can gain information regarding optimisation of design, operation and maintenance or even troubleshooting. In a recent[…]

Anglo American says it has launched Australia’s first electronic tablet device certified for use in underground coal mines at its Moranbah North mine, in the Bowen Basin of Queensland. The introduction of these tables represents a major step forward in the company’s aims to digitise its operations, according to Tyler Mitchelson, CEO of Anglo American’s[…]

Anglo American has approved the development of the Aquila project, in central Queensland’s Bowen Basin, which will become one of the most “technologically advanced underground mines in the world”, according to the company’s Tyler Mitchelson. With an expected capital cost of $226 million (Anglo American share), development work is expected to begin in September 2019,[…]

BHP has announced a five-year, $400 million Climate Investment Program to develop technologies to reduce emissions from its own operations as well as those generated from the use of its resources. Andrew Mackenzie, BHP CEO, said: the program will, over the next five years, scale up low carbon technologies critical to the decarbonisation of its[…]

Fenner Dunlop says it has taken a significant step forward by adding a new local idler manufacturing plant alongside its existing sales, engineering and warehouse operations in Brisbane. “Fenner Dunlop has designed and supplied conveyor idlers and structures for over 15 years and has vast expertise and experience in this area. Also well-known in the[…]

Construction has started on a A$500 million ($353 million) pilot project looking at the feasibility of turning brown coal from the Latrobe Valley, in Victoria, Australia, into hydrogen for liquefaction and export to Japan. Works have begun on liquefaction facilities linked to the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project at Port Hastings, Victoria, which the[…]

The performance of Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology continued to stand out in Sandvik Group’s June quarter results as orders for mechanised cutting and autonomous equipment helped revenues jump. Order intake from Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology of SEK11.9 billon ($1.27 billion) represented a historically high level, slightly shading the SEK11.4 billion posted a year[…]

FAMUR recently confirmed it would deliver new powered roof supports to Polska Grupa Górnicza’s (PGG) Bielszowice underground coal mine, in Ruda Śląska, Poland. The company was rewarded the contract for 177 sets of new powered roof support sections with complete hydraulic controls, as well as a system for pressure monitoring and visualisation in roof support[…]

In what Hastings Deering says is a first for Queensland, a Caterpillar MD6250 rotary blasthole drill has been delivered to contractor Mining and Civil Australia (MACA). The delivery to Bluff coal mine, east of Blackwater, is the first drill of its kind to enter the territory for works in the open-pit coking coal operation and[…]