Archives: Equipment maintenance

With the commencement of underground operations in March 2023, Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine now has two sources of feed that comes its concentrator – open pit ore from the conventional load and haul Oyut deposit and underground ore from the Hugo North Deposit via the Hugo North Lift 1 first stage of the[…]

BHP has announced that it has a new low emissions equipment trial underway at the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine in South Australia. It includes two Normet machines – the Utimec XL 1100 Agitator ED, the first in Australia, and the MF 050 VC Spraymec. The Utimec machine is built on the new low-emission Normet ElectroDynamic[…]

Following a long-standing relationship with Ma’aden, FLSmidth has been chosen to supply the key technologies and services for Ma’aden’s phosphate 3 phase 1 mine site in the Northern Province of Saudi Arabia. The order is valued at approximately DKK 530 million (over US$78 million) and was booked in Q3 2023. The equipment is expected to[…]

Palantir Technologies and WesTrac, one of the world’s largest Caterpillar dealers and leading provider of heavy mobile equipment and aftermarket services to the Australian mining and construction sectors, have announced a multi-year enterprise expansion of their partnership, which first began in 2021, to deploy Foundry across core operations. The expanded partnership will initially focus on[…]

Away from very large open pit mines Komatsu offers digital solutions for smaller mines and quarries. Operator Guidance Monitor (OGM) it says is a revolutionary tool designed to optimise fleets of rigid dump trucks, and to reduce unit production costs. Its easy-to-use, clear program allows users to set Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets and adjust[…]

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[…]

The Weir Group has issued its half-year results to June 30, 2023, noting some significant achievements across its Minerals and ESCO divisions. Headline numbers for the six-month period included a 19% year-on-year jump in revenues to £1.3 billion ($1.67 billion) and a 26% rise in operating profit to £212 million. Weir Minerals continued to execute[…]

Rössing Uranium in June 2023 released its 2022 Sustainability and Performance Report. Managing Director Johan Coetzee said the year was a busy one, with a major focus being on finalising the Life-of-Mine Extension (LoME) feasibility study which led to a positive investment decision in February 2023. Phase 4 of the Rössing Uranium mine near Swakopmund in[…]

ABB is celebrating the 10th anniversary since it reacquired ownership of a key gearless mill drive (GMD) system business in Spain on July 30, 2013, which combined the leading ring motor product from Alstom with ABB’s electrical offering for GMD systems. The technology leader marks the milestone with record output in the last calendar year and a[…]

Mining in Latin America is a large scale, well established activity, Atmos International Sales Engineer, Rodrigo Salgado, writes. Latin America accounts for 50% of the world’s silver production, 40% of the global production of copper and 35% of the world’s lithium.¹ With the region holding a significant share in the production and reserves of the[…]