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Gold Fields has formally awarded the provision of site services and haulage at its Granny Smith underground gold mine, and open-pit mining services at St Ives for the Swiftsure deposit, to MLG, the mining services provider says. The letter of award from Gold Fields is subject to both parties reaching agreement on formal terms. Along[…]

Rio Tinto will replace its entire fossil diesel consumption with renewable diesel at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah from 2024, the mining company has confirmed. Kennecott’s fleet of 90 haul trucks and all heavy machinery will begin to transition to renewable diesel in the March quarter of 2024, along with consumption from the concentrator,[…]

Evolution Mining has entered into a binding agreement to acquire an 80% interest in the Northparkes copper-gold mine in New South Wales from China’s CMOC Group Ltd for a total cash consideration of up to US$475 million. Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corporation will retain their 20% interest in the Northparkes JV. The deal will increase Evolution’s[…]

Aggreko has successfully won the bid to build, own and operate a 12.4 MW solar farm and 8.8 MW/2.1 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) under a long-term power purchase agreement for Rio Tinto’s Amrun project in Weipa, 800 km from Cairns in far north Queensland. Rio Tinto said the project, which will supplement power[…]

NRW Holdings wholly owned subsidiary, Golding Contractors Pty Ltd, has signed a four-year extension to the existing Contract Mining Agreement (CMA) it has in place with Aberdare Collieries Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of CS Energy Pty Ltd. Under the terms of the CMA the term is extended until June 30, 2030, with an option for[…]

The use of sensor-based sorting (SBS) technology is allowing Companhia de Ferro Ligas da Bahia (Ferbasa) to avoid unnecessary processing by separating a fraction of the high-grade material from the metallurgical process feed in advance, a recent case study from STEINERT has revealed. Ferbasa is in Ipueira, a municipality in the state of Bahia in[…]

MACA says the first of six Sandvik DR410i rotary blasthole drill rigs has arrived at the Gruyere gold mine as part of a complete replacement of an ageing mixed fleet at the open-pit operation. This compact yet imposing rig boasts a single pass depth of 14 m and capacity for holes some 32.3 m deep,[…]

A new solar farm in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia has been switched online thanks to a collaboration between BHP and renewable energy provider TransAlta, which, BHP says, will reduce Scope 2 emissions at the Nickel West northern operations by 12%. The Northern Goldfields Solar and Battery Storage Facility is one of the world’s[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has approved an investment of up $50 million to construct a Green Iron Trial Commercial Plant at Christmas Creek, with annual production of more than 1,500 t. The plant, in Western Australia, will use the existing green hydrogen infrastructure at Christmas Creek to lower the overall capital requirement and demonstrate a green[…]

MMG has taken delivery of its first Caterpillar R2900 XE diesel-electric loader at its Rosebery mine, in Tasmania, Australia, as part of its strategy to achieve the group’s net zero emission targets. The operation initially put a prototype vehicle to the test at Rosebery over a two-month period as part of Caterpillar field-follow trials conducted[…]