Archives: Mine ventilation

New Gold has ordered four more Sandvik LH518B battery-electric loaders for its New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia. The new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) will join the first-ever Sandvik LH518B, which New Afton trialled in late 2020 before purchasing in February 2021, and two Sandvik Z50 BEV trucks also operating at the mine. Located approximately[…]

SEA Electric has made the next step in its journey to electrify the world’s commercial vehicle fleet, by signing a significant Memorandum of Understanding with MEVCO, a leading systems integrator focused exclusively on electric light commercial vehicles within the mining industry. The partnership will see specialist all-electric Toyota Hilux and Landcruiser models made available for[…]

Finnish BEV charger technology specialist Kempower says is currently exploring different options to expand the company’s EV fast charging production capacity in Europe. The aim is that the new capacity will be operational by the end of the year 2025. Mining equpiment is one of its focus areas, and in November 2021 it signed a[…]

Osisko Mining Inc has filed the technical feasibility study report prepared by BBA Inc on its 100% owned Windfall gold deposit in the Abitibi greenstone belt, within the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec, Canada. The project has total proven and probable mineral reserves of 12.2 Mt grading 8.06 g/t Au and 4.18 g/t[…]

While the first wave of battery electric mining equipment has come in North America and Europe, Australia arguably represents the next big focus. Sandvik Mining & Rock Solutions’ new 65 t TH665B arrived in the country in Q4 2022, and will go into field testing in 2023. At the IMARC 2022 event in November, IM[…]

RUC Mining has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of two ventilation shafts for a major global mining company in New South Wales, Australia. The shafts will be blind sinks to a depth of approximately 600 m at 5.5 m and 7.5 m diameter, respectively. The contract was[…]

The 300th MacLean Engineering SL3 Scissor Lift has come off the production line in the company’s Owen Sound, Ontario, manufacturing facility, some two decades after its initial introduction to the mining industry, destined for a longstanding customer’s mining operation in the Sudbury basin. As one of the original MacLean Mine-Mate™ Utility Vehicle solutions for mine[…]

At the IMARC show in Sydney in early November 2022, IM met with MacLean Engineering’s Dan Stern, Senior Product Manager and Peter Black, Technical Sales Manager, to talk about one of its latest battery electric innovations – the ML5 BEV Multi Lift  – which has been developed specifically for the Australian market initially and will[…]

Karora Resources has become WesTrac’s first customer to take delivery of the powerful new Cat® AD63 Underground Mining Truck. The WesTrac Kalgoorlie team completed the build of Karora’s newest addition before it makes its journey to the Beta Hunt gold mine, located in the Kambalda mining district 600 km east of Perth. The new AD63 joins[…]

Rail-Veyor Technologies Global Inc has announced that the Railveyor™ TrulyAutonomous system operating at the Agnico Eagle Goldex mine in Val d’Or, Quebec, has hauled over 10 Mt of ore since installation and commissioning was completed in 2018. Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd announced in July 2022 that 1 Moz of gold has been processed from the[…]