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Perenti’s Barminco underground mining business has been awarded the contract for all underground development and production works for Evolution Mining’s Cowal Underground project in New South Wales, Australia. Barminco, a leading global underground mining services business, is currently developing an exploration decline and conducting diamond drilling services at Cowal. Last year, the board and regulators[…]

Gold Fields’ Agnew mine in Western Australia is continuing to innovate, with its latest technology development involving the installation of a new modular Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions crushing system that can align with its day-time solar generation capabilities on site. The operation has recently completed one of the biggest hybrid renewable projects in the mining[…]

After retrofitting an aged DC 8050 dragline with a safer AC power system, a multi-dragline coal mine operating in Queensland experienced a major boost in productivity and power efficiency, substantially diminished operating costs and a positive return on the investment within 18 months, FLANDERS says. In 2018, senior management of BHP’s South Walker Creek coal[…]

Volt Power Group’s 70% owned subsidiary, EcoQuip Australia, has secured an agreement with BHP Iron Ore Pty Ltd to conduct a trial of its zero emission, “zero OPEX” and maintenance EcoQuip Mobile Solar Light Tower (MSLT). Volt CEO and Managing Director, Adam Boyd, said the EcoQuip team had worked diligently over the last six months[…]

Bis says it has signed a multi-year bauxite haulage contract with Rio Tinto for its Gove operations in the Northern Territory of Australia. Bis will deploy an efficient, high payload haulage solution to Gove, enabling a day shift only approach, which will also provide a strong foundation for managing employee attraction, it said. Bis Chief[…]

A 2,800 t/h MRA ore sorting installation at First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia is now fully commissioned and using diversion hardware, Chris Beal, CEO of NextOre, told RFC Ambrian and Stonegate Capital Partners’ Copper Pathway to 2030 webinar on Tuesday. Presenting alongside speakers from RFC Ambrian, Oroco Resource Corp and First Quantum[…]

Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia Pty Ltd (TLEA) has announced first production of battery-grade lithium from its plant in Kwinana, Western Australia, marking the first time battery-grade lithium, or lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM), has been produced in Australia in commercial quantities. This is a significant milestone for TLEA and Australian mining as the sector expands to[…]

More than 60% of Batchfire Resources’ pre-strip mining fleet is now made up of electric drive dump trucks, after six new Komatsu 930E-5 ultra-class vehicles arrived at its Callide coal mine operations in Queensland, Australia. The latest investment in six haul trucks maintains Batchfire’s policy of growing the proportion of electric drive machines within its[…]

Sibanye-Stillwater is to invest $17 million in OptiMine® Collision Avoidance System (CAS) technology to reduce accidents, injuries and fatalities at its Stillwater PGM underground mining operations in Montana, USA, Newtrax says. Newtrax and Sibanye-Stillwater have been working together since 2017 on various digitalisation projects to improve safety and productivity at Stillwater. OptiMine increases safety and[…]

Rio Tinto has started producing tellurium at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, becoming one of only two US producers of the critical mineral used in advanced thin film photovoltaic solar panels. The tellurium will be refined in North America by 5N Plus, a global producer of specialty semiconductors and performance materials, under a commercial[…]