Archives: Mining consumables

Malaysian group Sime Darby Berhad has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sime Darby Industrial Australia Pty Ltd will acquire Cavpower Group, a privately owned Australian company, with distribution responsibilities for Cat® equipment in South Australia and Broken Hill in New South Wales (NSW). “The acquisition of Cavpower complements our existing portfolio and provides geographic expansion[…]

HUGO is Australian group Bis Industries’ new hybrid, high payload electric underground hard rock haulage prototype truck which has recently been put through its paces at a quarry during its commissioning phase including extensive durability testing to test the robustness of its electrical system. The 80 t capacity HUGO stands for Hybrid Underground Operations. It has also[…]

Haver & Boecker Niagara recently opened a new service and support facility in Parauapebas, Brazil. The company welcomed clients, partners, friends, local community and city authorities to the grand opening celebration on May 18, 2023. The 43,055-square-foot (4,000 m2) facility it says provides service and support for mining operations throughout the region through cutting-edge diagnostics,[…]

On June 23-24 2023, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore had the privilege of being present at the 30th anniversary celebrations of Poland-based underground drilling and bolting major, Mine Master, having also attended the company’s 20th anniversary back in 2013. The event saw a tour of its facilities in Wilkow, including a demonstration of the world[…]

With the commencement of underground operations in March 2023, Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine now has two sources of feed that comes its concentrator – open pit ore from the conventional load and haul Oyut deposit and underground ore from the Hugo North Deposit via the Hugo North Lift 1 first stage of the[…]

BHP has announced that it has a new low emissions equipment trial underway at the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine in South Australia. It includes two Normet machines – the Utimec XL 1100 Agitator ED, the first in Australia, and the MF 050 VC Spraymec. The Utimec machine is built on the new low-emission Normet ElectroDynamic[…]

Later this year, Mining3 is to demonstrate to funding supporters and commercialisation partners a significant ACARP-funded project milestone of a number of blasts in rock with hydrogen peroxide-based emulsion explosive at an increasing scale of production. While rock-breakage displays in Queensland quarries with alternative explosives formulations were completed back in 2016, those formulations were proof-of-principle[…]

As part of Ivanhoe Mines’ refurbishment of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zest WEG is to supply a range of electrical and energy solutions. Ivanhoe Mines acquired its 68% interest in the Kipushi project in November 2011; the balance of 32% is held by the DRC’s state-owned mining[…]

Dyno Nobel was recently part of the largest blast ever performed at the Caserones copper-molybdenum mine and the third largest ever in Chile. The products used in the blast were TITAN DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY bulk emulsion and the DigiShot Plus 4G initiation system. Some 3 Mt of material were successfully blasted. Lundin Mining Corporation is now[…]

Binding Solutions Ltd, a UK-based metals processing technology company has agreed a major US$17.5 million strategic investment from Mineral Resources Ltd, the leading Australian mining services company with a growing world-class portfolio of mining operations in iron ore and lithium. BSL says it will use the funds raised to progress the design and construction of[…]