Archives: Mining consumables

Seriti Resources and its renewable energy subsidiary, Seriti Green, have announced that Seriti Green will soon begin construction on South Africa’s largest wind farm in Mpumalanga, with power supply coming online by 2025. This follows the signing of heads of terms between Seriti Resources and Seriti Green to a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for 155[…]

Inspired by UN Sustainable Development Goal 6, which is to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, AECI Water says it is focused on taking the mining industry off the potable grid. This directly links to this year’s Mining Indaba theme of ‘Stability, Security and Supply.’ “2.2 billion litres of water[…]

Caterpillar’s 994 wheel loader has been a leader in its size class since it was first introduced in 1990. Now the company is set to enhance its offering with a step up to the all new Cat® 995 Wheel Loader which it says will deliver more payload, more power and more performance while using less[…]

Fertiliser and salt producer K+S is testing the use of electromobility in its German mines. The suitability of the charging infrastructure and safety underground are currently being tested in addition to the everyday suitability and range of the vehicles in a mine at the Werra integrated plant. In the long term, electric vehicles are to[…]

Shougang Hierro Perú has recently added Robit drilling consumables to its drilling arsenal, following a string of tests comparing down-the-hole (DTH) tools, the Finland-based company says. A large share of the drilling and earthmoving operations at Shougang Hierro Perú is conducted by Cosapi Mineria, a subsidiary of Cosapi S.A., one of Peru’s biggest construction and[…]

Minnovare, part of Hexagon’s mining division, has built of the success of its Production Optimiser™ underground offering for production drilling with the launch off Development Optimiser™, another advanced hardware and software combination aimed this time at delivering more accurate and consistent drilling in underground development drilling projects. The “low cost of implementation, low maintenance” system[…]

Aiming to mitigate the risk of long term International Cyanide Management Institute non-compliance and possible detrimental environmental impact of discharging high weak acid dissociable (WAD) cyanide levels in its CTSF tailings dam, Barrick Gold Corp-operated Kibali Goldmines (KGM) in DRC several years ago began evaluating the possibility of using AZMET Technology & Projects’ Cyanide Removal[…]

In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the Indian mining sector, Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL), a Vedanta group company, has introduced a Normet Agitator SmartDrive EV, into its underground mining operations. The company will soon expand its BEV fleet with Normet’s Explosive Charger (CHARMEC MC 605 V SD) and Concrete Sprayer (SPRAYMEC MF 050 VC SD). Hindustan[…]

Imperial said on January 26 that it will further help Canada achieve its net zero goals by investing about C$720 million (US$560 million) to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in the country. The project at Imperial’s Strathcona refinery near Edmonton is expected to produce more than one billion litres of[…]

On December 15 2022, the ZOOMLION New Energy Products and Smart Site Conference was held in Changsha with the theme ‘Green Smart Manufacturing Leading a New Future of Double Carbon’ and the latest achievements of Zoomlion in developing new energy technologies and products in response to China’s national double carbon strategy were announced. This relates[…]