Archives: Mine operation news

Epiroc says it has won a large equipment order for a new underground mine at the Hummingbird Resources-owned Komana mine in southern Mali. Hummingbird, through its subsidiary Société des Mines de Komana, has selected Epiroc drill rigs and loaders with advanced automation features for the development of a new underground mine at Komana, which is[…]

South32’s Cannington Mine, in Queensland, Australia, says it is supporting Emesent in its pursuit of developing and testing light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning and automation technologies in real underground mining environments. The team from Emesent were recently on site at Cannington with Spot the Robot Dog, trialling Spot’s autonomy development and capabilities in the[…]

Macmahon Holdings says it has extended its appointment by PT Agincourt Resources (PTAR) as the mining contractor for the Martabe gold project in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Macmahon has been working to support PTAR at the Martabe mine site since 2016 and, in that time, its workforce on site has grown to over 600. The scope[…]

BAMIN, the wholly-owned Brazil-based subsidiary of Eurasian Resources Group, has signed an agreement with Anglo American that guarantees the acquisition of the full export volumes of BAMIN’s Pedra de Ferro mine for 2023. The Pedra de Ferro open-pit iron ore mine, in the city of Caetite, State of Bahia, has been in production since late[…]

Lundin Mining Corporation has entered into a binding purchase agreement with JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries to acquire 51% of the issued and outstanding equity of SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile, a wholly owned subsidiary of JX which operates the Caserones copper-molybdenum mine in Chile. The transaction will see[…]

The Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), based in Saudi Arabia, is the latest company to have benefitted from Mammoet’s specialised logistics offering. MWSPC operates some of the largest and busiest fertiliser plants anywhere in the world, including the Umm Wu’al Sulphuric Acid and Power Plant. This plant is in a new industrial city[…]

Following its successful expansion of the sewage treatment plant at the Lucara Diamond’s Karowe mine in Botswana, WEC Projects has secured further orders from the client, it says. This time, it has been engaged for the design and construction of a sedimentation trap, tanker filling station and associated infrastructure, including storm water drains and fencing.[…]

Eldorado Gold is looking to take its next mobile equipment electrification step, with the company set to receive its first battery-electric truck in June for use at the Lamaque underground mine in Quebec, Canada. The Vancouver-headquartered company has already trialled a battery-electric Normet SmartDrive concrete transportation vehicle at its Efemçukuru gold mine, in Türkiye, as[…]

At the request of Udokan Copper, MegaFon has designed and built an industrial wireless LTE (pLTE, Private LTE) network of six base stations and set up redundant communication channels at the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant (MMP). The infrastructure provides coverage across the whole site with both 4G and Private LTE, according to the company.[…]

Evolution Mining says it has achieved a major milestone in its planned growth of getting the Cowal gold mine in New South Wales, Australia, to circa-320,000 oz in its 2024 financial year, with underground production commencing ahead of schedule. The first underground stope has commenced being mined and processed this month, with continued ramp up[…]