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Newmont Corporation has announced that its Cadia operation in New South Wales, Australia, has achieved The Copper Mark and The Molybdenum Mark following an independent assessment, recognising responsible production practices at Australia’s largest underground mine. Cadia is Newmont’s first site globally to receive the award after successfully meeting more than 30 criteria needed in critical[…]

New analysis by SRK indicates that a 150-t payload battery-electric haul truck could end up being $3 million cheaper on a total cost of ownership (TCO) basis than the equivalent diesel model. The report, titled, ‘Decarbonizing Mining: Diesel vs Electric Haul Trucks on Cost and Efficiency: Assessing Economic and Operational Trade-offs’, compares the TCO and[…]

Cummins is globally known as a leader in mining engines used throughout the world on mining trucks and excavators, including all Komatsu mining machines. Its QSK50, QSK60 and QSK78 engines are renowned for their performance across all mining types and conditions, such as high altitude and temperature extremes. But of course Cummins, like its customers,[…]

At MINExpo 2024, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore met with Ren Hua, General Manager of XCMG’s Global Mining Machinery Business Division. XCMG is today China’s leading mining equipment supplier and a growing force in mining globally. They discussed a range of topics including the rise of wide body trucks and XCMG’s unique breadth of product[…]

“A green mining industry is not science fiction”, industrial technology giant ABB said earlier this year, pointing to the role it’s been playing in electrifying and automating energy-intensive mining processes for more than a century. Today’s technology presents even more actionable net zero emission pathways, according to ABB Process Industries Division President, Joachim Braun. Speaking[…]

Brazilian iron ore mining giant Vale and oil & gas major Petrobras have announced the signing of a Strategic Alliance Agreement to supply products with a focus on competitiveness and advancing Vale’s decarbonisation agenda. This agreement, which reflects the natural evolution of the protocol of intentions signed by the companies in September 2023, establishes conditions[…]

Tyrecycle and Alcoa Australia have joined forces in what is described as a milestone agreement to give a new life to old mining truck tyres. Last week, Tyrecycle’s state-of-the-art recycling facility in East Rockingham, 40 km south of Perth, welcomed its first load of used off the road (OTR) tyres from Alcoa. To mark the occasion,[…]

Cornish Lithium has opened the UK’s first low-emission, lithium hydroxide Demonstration Plant, marking, it says, a significant milestone in the UK’s transition to clean power by 2030. The new facility forms part of Cornish Lithium’s Trelavour Hard Rock project in Cornwall, which will reduce the UK’s reliance on carbon-intensive, imported lithium by extracting supplies of[…]

Pacific Energy has signed an agreement with Gold Fields to design and construct a 35 MW solar farm for the St Ives gold mine, 80 km south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields region. The solar farm is a part of Gold Fields’ landmark A$296 million ($198 million) St Ives Renewables project, which also[…]

Running through the three halls at MINExpo 2024 in Las Vegas last month, the electrification theme was everywhere – numerous booths pulled in attendees with battery symbolism or, in some cases, actual electric machines; others presented new concepts, with variations of dynamic trolley being a particular talking point. While it is clear there is a[…]