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01 Mar 2021
Electric Mine Consortium formed by key OEMs and miners to drive forward zero emissions including a complete greenfield electric test mine
Leading companies in the mining industry are taking real steps towards decarbonisation. Over a dozen...
24 Feb 2021
Epiroc updates North American underground mining strategy with new combined US & Canada market approach
Epiroc has announced a new strategy to support the underground mining market in North America....
11 Feb 2021
Canadian Malartic JV partners approve Odyssey underground gold mine construction including autonomous electric fleet plus LTE network
Canadian Malartic Mine (CMM) has announced that both of its 50:50 owning partners, Yamana Gold...
11 Feb 2021
Redpath completes largest raisebore by volume in the Americas at Niobec niobium mine in Quebec
The Redpath Group reached a milestone this week, as the company completed an 875 m...
10 Feb 2021
Codelco awards Acciona-led consortium $200 million of Chuquicamata underground works
Codelco, the Chilean copper mining giant, has awarded a consortium led by Acciona the infrastructure...
29 Jan 2021
Howden to install state of the art mine cooling system at Ero Copper’s Caraiba mining complex
The Pilar mine at the Caraiba Mining Complex in Bahia, Brazil, will soon have a...
27 Jan 2021
Master Drilling expands in Russia with new Master Detra entity offering raise boring services
Master Drilling says it has partnered with a Russian company to form a new entity...
20 Jan 2021
KGHM ZANAM gets funding in place for ZANPER 2.0 battery electric personnel carrier
Polish mining equipment company KGHM ZANAM Capital Group, part of copper and silver mining major...
06 Jan 2021
Turkey’s Nuh Cement innovates to go green by retrofitting its mining shovel fleet to electric
Sometimes advances are made by smaller mining companies who set out to make changes themselves...
18 Dec 2020
Sibanye-Stillwater reports successful ongoing trials at Montana mines with Sandvik Artisan A4 battery electric LHD
Trials with all battery-electric underground equipment are ongoing with a number of major mining groups...
15 Dec 2020
Codelco says 100% of its underground equipment to be electric by 2030
Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, has made public commitments in five areas...
07 Dec 2020
Glencore’s ‘net-zero emissions’ 2050 pathway includes use of BEVs
Glencore has become the latest mining major to plot a path to reach “net-zero emissions”,...