Archives: Mining consumables

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Off-the-Road tyre business to The Yokohama Rubber Company, Ltd for US$905 million in cash. The transaction follows a previously announced strategic review of the OTR tyre business in connection with the Goodyear Forward transformation plan. Goodyear’s OTR[…]

Coordinating Minister of Economy Airlangga Hartarto and Investment Minister/Head of Investment Coordination Agency BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia, accompanied by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) President Director Tony Wenas, formally launched commencement of PTFI’s new copper smelter recently in the Java Integrated Industrial and Port Estate (JIIPE) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Gresik, East Java. “I can only[…]

Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine (NMMC), the world’s fourth-largest gold producer and Central Asia’s largest gold miner, has set an ambitious goal to implement 11 projects with a total value of $1 billion in 2024 under its ongoing Investment Program. The program, designed to boost gold production, highlights NMMC’s commitment to growth and innovation in[…]

Weir, a global leader in innovative mining technology, has launched the all-new ENDURON® Orbital range of vibrating screens. Engineered for sand and aggregate, construction, and small tonnage mining operations, the new screens it says are designed to meet the most demanding of applications. Featuring an all-bolted construction, the screens “significantly improve reliability by eliminating welding[…]

BASF has signed an agreement with Solenis, a global producer of specialty chemicals headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, to sell BASF’s flocculants business for mining applications. The divestment of BASF’s flocculants business to Solenis is part of BASF’s portfolio optimisation, aiming to focus on core strategic areas. Pending approval by the relevant merger control authorities, the[…]

Brunner & Lay has released a new line of rock drilling tools to the market following a rigorous in-house development and testing process from the company’s engineering and metallurgical teams. The latest addition is a line of ‘Arrow’ straight hole drilling tools, which come in a variety of thread styles – T38, T-45, T-51 and[…]

Newmont Corporation’s Africa Business unit, has deployed the Cat® diesel-electric R2900 XE loader at Subika Underground mine in Ahafo South. The mining equipment, the first of its kind to be used in Africa, marks a significant milestone in Newmont’s commitment to reduce its global environmental footprint, in pursuant of the company’s ambitious goal of zero[…]

Chile’s National Center of Piloting Technologies in Mining (CNP) last week published its 2023 annual report, highlighting significant advances in its management and in the promotion of technological innovation in the mining industry. The CNP reported progress and projects in piloting, technological surveillance and market intelligence, analysis of test protocols, training, studies and business cases. It[…]

Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) and Rio Tinto have agreed to pursue the development of an 80 MW solar farm on Ngarluma Country, near Karratha, to supply renewable energy to the company’s iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The solar farm is the first proposed project the Ngarluma people and Rio Tinto will pursue[…]

Leading underground mining contractor PYBAR has been awarded a four-year contract (with one-year extension option) by AIC Mines to provide underground development services at the Eloise Copper Mine Complex in northwest Queensland, Australia. The Eloise complex includes the existing Eloise Mine and Jericho deposits. With revenue of A$149 million, the contract scope involves delivering the[…]