Archives: Coal technology

Close to three-and-a-half years after commencing autonomous haulage operations at its Maules Creek coal operation in New South Wales, Australia, Whitehaven Coal is set to soon decide on whether to adopt the automated haulage system (AHS) or discontinue its pilot program, the company said in its just released FY2023 results. Back in July 2018, Hitachi[…]

On June 23-24 2023, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore had the privilege of being present at the 30th anniversary celebrations of Poland-based underground drilling and bolting major, Mine Master, having also attended the company’s 20th anniversary back in 2013. The event saw a tour of its facilities in Wilkow, including a demonstration of the world[…]

Bogatyr is planning to expand the production capacity of Kazakhstan’s largest open-cast coal mine from 32 Mt/y to 40 Mt/y with automated conveyor technology. The modernisation project included erection of an automated coal wagon loading station in cooperation with ThyssenKrupp. It only takes three to four hours to load two trains with about 70 cars[…]

TAKRAF Australia says it has successfully supplied, delivered and commissioned a 30-m diameter DELKOR tailings thickener for the Moolarben Coal Handling & Preparation Plant (CHPP) in New South Wales, Australia. The Moolarben complex, on Australia’s East coast, is operated by Moolarben Coal Operations Pty. Ltd., which is a joint venture between Moolarben Coal Mines, Yancoal[…]

HBT GmbH has advised that as of July 20, it entered into a Share Purchase Agreement to procure Australia-based coal equipment company Waratah Engineering from Questas Group. Waratah is well known for remanufacturing of longwall roof supports, plus overhauls of continuous miners and roadheaders, as well as producing its own equipment such as the WaraCar[…]

Power Mech Projects Ltd (PMPL), one of the leading industrial services and construction companies providing versatile and comprehensive services in India’s power and infrastructure sector, has been awarded a huge Mine Development & Operation (MOO) contract for the Tasra open cast coking coal project located in the Jharia Coal Fields in Ohanbad, Jharkhand state. The[…]

In 2019, Thiess was the first mining services provider to deploy an Epiroc Pit Viper drill fitted with an autonomous drilling system (ADS) and has since expanded its fleet with additional autonomous drills now in operation. Thiess’ fleet of autonomous Epiroc drills has now achieved a significant milestone, safely drilling more than one million lineal[…]

On July 12, the leading Chinese mining truck OEM Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co (NHL) and Chinese coal giant CHN Energy through its division Zhunneng Group held a delivery ceremony for a 300 ton class diesel-electric drive dump truck at the Haerwusu opencast coal mine. The truck is unique is that it is[…]

Polish underground coking coal miner JSW Group has announced that a new longwall has been launched at the KWK Borynia-Zofiówka-Bzie mine in the Bzie Section of the Bzie-Dębina 2-Zachód mining area. It is currently in the startup stage. The N-1 longwall will be mined in seam 416/3 until January 2024. The length of the longwall is[…]

In November 2020, autonomous open pit haulage technology company EACON Mining began an autonomous driving project in the South Pit of energy company TBEA, a coal mine operated by its Tianchi Energy subsidiary in the northwest of China. The partners embarked on a journey of safe operations that has now surpassed 30 months. Building on a[…]