Archives: Energy minerals

Caterpillar has announced an additional 1 billion tonnes of material hauled by autonomous trucks using Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling, surpassing the 3 billion tonnes milestone. This achievement is joined by an expansion of the types of commodities hauled autonomously across a growing number of Cat mining truck class sizes, as well as other brands of mining equipment. “Since surpassing[…]

Teck’s RACE21™ innovation-driven efficiency program covers many bases. On the autonomy side, the company is making major strides which was outlined in its recent Q1 2021 earnings call. Teck is somewhat unique in the industry in having deployed AHS at both coal and metallic operations and is using two different systems – at the Elkview[…]

Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) has awarded a 5 year mining services contract to a joint venture between Bothakga Burrow, a local citizen owned company, and Basil Read Mining, the South African based company, for the development of an open cast coal mining operation at the MCM, Motheo project. The BR-BB (JV) mining contract was signed[…]

Substitution of diesel with liquefied natural gas (LNG) is something many mining companies around the world are looking at as a medium term way of reducing costs and cutting carbon emissions. That said, to succeed in mining the infrastructure needs to be in place. India is one of the major mining countries where this is[…]

China’s Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co Ltd (NHL) now has two NTE200 AC electric drive trucks running autonomously as part of a trial at the Yiminhe coal mining operations of China Huaneng Group, also in Inner Mongolia. The 186 t class trucks are retrofits equipped with AHS technology from NHL partner TAGE Idriver.[…]

Orica, the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems, has announced the release of its new Advanced Vibration Management (AVM) software that links blast design, modelling and measurement to conserve sensitive structures. Continuing its efforts to create safer, predictable and more productive blast outcomes, Orica has added Advanced Vibration Management (AVM) to[…]

FLSmidth says it has been chosen as the technical partner and the supplier of key equipment for the productivity improvement project at a phosphate beneficiation plant in the Middle East. The order, valued at approximately DKK200 million ($32 million), was booked in March. It will focus on improving the overall plant production through improved plant[…]

Liebherr’s then new T 282B 363 t payload truck 17-139 started work at Syncrude’s North oil sands mine on March 24, 2005. reaching the milestone of 100,000 operating hours on March 28. Syncrude Site Reliability Engineer Paul Wohlgemuth sees achieving that milestone as a success story with several authors. “The oil sands are the toughest[…]

Chinese battery giant CATL and Luoyang Luanchuan Molybdenum Group Co Ltd have reached a new level of comprehensive strategic cooperation in the field of new energy metal resources. At a signing ceremony, Ningbo Bangpu Times New Energy Co Ltd (Bangpu Times), an indirect holding company of CATL, and China Molybdenum (CMOC) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary[…]

BCI Minerals Limited has confirmed around A$90 million ($68 million) of contract awards for its Mardie Salt & Potash project, in Western Australia, ahead of a final investment decision (FID). The initial earthworks contract has been awarded to WBHO Infrastructure, a contractor with a long history of project delivery excellence in large civil construction projects[…]