Archives: Mining consumables

A new contract with Pilbara Traditional Owner business Gallawinya Pty Ltd, will supply up to 4,000 tyres a year for light vehicles and light trucks across BHP WA Iron Ore’s central Pilbara mining operations, the mining company says. Gallawinya is one of more than 80 Indigenous and Traditional Owner businesses engaged directly in the first[…]

Lewis County could well become a symbol of Washington state’s robust and growing clean energy economy when zero-emission mining trucks are seen driving around the new First Mode Proving Grounds later this year. First Mode, a global carbon reduction company that developed the world’s first integrated battery and hydrogen fuel cell powerplants for retrofitting the[…]

Chile’s BAILAC has announced the renewal of its contract with Chilean copper mine Minera Sierra Gorda for its OTR tyre management service. The mine operates a large fleet of nearly 60 Komatsu 930E trucks and produces copper and molybdenum concentrate. On a daily basis some 115, 000 t of ore are processed, producing 108,000 t of[…]

Back in 2015, Swakop Uranium invested in a new mining fleet for the new Husab uranium mine near the town of Swakopmund in western-central Namibia consisting of 23 327 t class Komatsu 960E-2KT electric dump trucks and three Chinese NHL NTE330 electric drive trucks of the same class. All the trucks were trolley-ready with a view to[…]

MAXAM Tire has expanded and upgraded its underground mining series with the release of new solutions for articulated dump trucks and LHDs. With every underground site’s unique challenge and need for durability, MAXAM has designed solutions capable of achieving maximum stability and traction. The 4-star rated E4/L4 MS405 and MS406 for ADTs boast 60% higher[…]

Queensland-based engineering solutions company Global Road Technology has announced an exclusive partnership with TotalEnergies to distribute its dust suppression products. The new partnership with TotalEnergies Marketing Australia, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE, will see it become its exclusive distributor. TotalEnergies will supply a suite of environmentally safe, sustainable and cutting-edge dust suppression products, designed to[…]

Minova has announced it has completed the acquisition of Bulteck Mining Systems, a leader in the design and manufacture of steel ground support products. The acquisition of Bulteck it says not only strengthens Minova’s presence in the European market, but also supports its segment growth plans globally. “The addition of Bulteck’s brand and products into[…]

Sandvik is launching xCell Cyclops™, a convergence system for ground support in underground mining that, it says, provides wireless, continuous, remote and real-time measurement of ground movements. xCell Cyclops features built-in notifications and alarms to support a safer and more sustainable work environment, the company says. Underground mining is generally trending deeper, which leads to more[…]

In its just released Climate Action Report 2022, Equinox Gold gives a good overview of a broad approach to addressing Scope 1 emissions from a mid-tier miner. The gold miner has one project in Ontario (Greenstone, 60%), two mines in California (Mesquite and Castle Mountain), one mine in Mexico (Los Filos) and four mines in Brazil (Aurizona, Santa Luz,[…]

Clean technology innovation company 5B has been appointed as the solar technology provider for a 16 MWp solar system that will form part of a 95 MW hybrid power station that Zenith Energy is constructing on a build, own, operate basis for Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in Western Australia. It is expected to[…]