Archives: Mining consumables

Newmont says it has delivered over $1 billion in annual synergies, significantly exceeding the initial value commitment of $365 million a year following the company’s acquisition of Goldcorp in April of 2019. All while doing it six months ahead of schedule. More than three quarters of the synergy value has been generated by focusing on[…]

MacLean EV Series™ production support mining equipment has been chosen by Torex Gold Resources Inc for their Media Luna Project at the gold producer’s Morelos Complex in Mexico. The fleet of MacLean EV Series battery electric mining vehicles (BEVs) that will be manufactured, commissioned, and supported by MacLean at the Media Luna Project will include a[…]

Linatex® Premium Rubber, manufactured solely by Weir Minerals Malaysia, is celebrating its 100-year anniversary as an industry leader in defence against abrasion. The distinctive red rubber, renowned for its resilience, strength, resistance to wear and abrasion, offers exceptional performance in the harshest of mining and aggregate environments, according to Weir Minerals. It has been field-tested[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing the new Sandvik RR340 single seal roller bearing rotary drill bit in an effort to, it says, boost service life and lower drilling costs. Sandvik’s rotary bit offering has consisted of the standard air bearing bit Sandvik RR240 and the ultra-premium Charger™ RR440 and RR450 bits. The Sandvik[…]

A new and revolutionary process, being tested for the first time in the world, has been prototyped by Anglo American at its El Soldado copper operation in Chile. The project makes it possible to reduce water consumption by naturally increasing the recovery of this resource from the tailings themselves by approximately 80%. In addition to[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd has announced the development of an enhanced boom and arm for its range of ultra-large hydraulic excavators, the improved durability of which it says will extend service life 1 by 1.5 times compared to previous models. Durability has now been improved by expanding the applicability of steel castings to the[…]

Haver & Boecker Niagara, a leader in screening and pelletising technologies since 1872, has acquired partial ownership in Tandem Products Inc, a long-standing family-owned polyurethane producer of open-cast screen media and liners for the mining, concrete, industrial and grain industries. Haver & Boecker Niagara’s parent company, Haver & Boecker OHG, is a fifth-generation family-owned business[…]

WAE Technologies, the world-leading technology and engineering services business, has launched Elysia, its battery intelligence software offering “designed to unlock significant improvements in the life, safety, usable energy, power, and rapid charging times of any battery system.” Elysia it says brings game-changing battery insight, management, and optimisation of batteries to the mass market for the[…]

On the foundation of their 2021 collaboration agreement and of technical work achieved together over the past two years, Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc (NMG) and Caterpillar Inc have signed definitive agreements to supply NMG’s Matawinie Mine with an integrated solution that covers a zero-exhaust emission fleet, supporting infrastructure, and service. Caterpillar is set to be NMG’s supplier of[…]

Mineral processing has evolved hugely in recent years, enabling mining companies to tackle lower grades and more challenging ores. But a lot of this has been achieved by increasing efficiencies through more refined designs of what are fundamentally the same basic processes that have been around for many decades and in some cases over a[…]