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Chinese construction and mining equipment giant XCMG has already made significant inroads in mining with its wide body trucks, including conventional diesel, hybrid and full battery versions in countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Guinea and elsewhere and with high profile Tier 1 miners like Vale. This includes a fleet of 30 units of its XGE105 electric[…]

On a quest to delivering highest power in minimal time to heavy-duty electric vehicles, Stäubli Electrical Connectors recently offered “a transparent look” into its evolving collaboration with LEONI, detailing an informal yet highly synergistic exploration that it says has catalysed charging power advancements in the electric vehicle charging sector. Stäubli states: “This dynamic engagement has[…]

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited has revealed its findings on the efficiency and environmental impact of the Railveyor system implemented at its Goldex mining complex in Quebec, Canada, with the whitepaper, published by Railveyor and Agnico Eagle, detailing reduced operational costs, enhanced safety and greenhouse gas emissions reductions as some of the major outcomes of the[…]

KSB GIW Inc is set to showcase its GIW® SLYsight slurry pump wear monitoring technology at the MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2024 event, in Las Vegas, later this month, saying the technology addresses the need for real-time pump wear analytics to enable mining operations to optimise maintenance schedules and maximise pump wear life while reducing downtime. MINExpo[…]

Less than a month out from MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2024 in Las Vegas, Jérôme Cloué, Vice President of Electrification for Epiroc, talked up numerous electrification launches/debuts at the show that would go a long way to helping its customers achieve their sustainability targets. During a visit to Boliden’s Rävliden mine, part of the Kristineberg complex, in[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd (HCM) has acquired an approximately 12% equity holding in Envirosuite Ltd for A$10 million and as such has become its largest single entity shareholder. This investment will be made in two instalments, with the first investment in September acquiring approximately 11% of the company’s shares, followed shortly by another investment[…]

Normet, looking to lead the electric tranformation in the industry, has announced that it has acquired the full ownership of Lekatech. Earlier in 2023, Normet announced its minority investment in Lekatech, a Finnish start-up company founded in 2018 with the ambition to revolutionise hammering technologies by introducing linear electric technology for hammering applications. Lekatech calls[…]

ABB is working on a new fast charging solution under its eMine™ ecosystem that will represent a 10-fold increase in capacity compared with its previous 600 kW solution, Nic Beutler, Global eMine Solutions Manager, told IM this week. Speaking on the sidelines of a trip to Boliden’s Rävliden mine in northern Sweden, Beutler said ABB[…]

BQE Water Inc, a leader in mine water management, has announced that Elsa Reclamation & Development Company Ltd (ERDC) has contracted the company to design, supply, install and commission a new water treatment plant (WTP) for the closure of legacy Valley Tailings Facility (VTF) near Mayo, Yukon, on the traditional territory of the First Nation[…]

Earlier this year, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore had the chance to visit the Remote Monitoring Center for Gold Fields’ Salares Norte gold mine in Chile with Reynaldo Martinez, Asset Management and Operational Performance Manager. The centre is in downtown Santiago, some 1,500 km from the mine and plant. The first gold was produced on March[…]