Archives: Mining equipment

NPROXX is currently completing the manufacture of an innovative new hydrogen fuel tank system that is designed to power the world’s largest FCEV mine haul truck at Mogalakwena, the Anglo American open pit PGM mine in South Africa. Once it has been delivered, installed onto the vehicle and qualified, the hydrogen tank system will drive[…]

The new Liebherrr R 976-E electric crawler excavator, along with the R 980 SME-E, replace the ER 974 B for mine and quarry extraction applications. The latest electric excavators to be developed and produced by Liebherr-France SAS in Colmar, France, they are not just converted diesel machines. The excavators and their electric power system were[…]

Cartier Resources says ore sorting tests carried out by COREM and Steinert US on mineralised samples from the Chimo Mine property, in Quebec, Canada, have indicated gold grades could increase substantially with the use of the pre-concentration technology. Gold from Chimo is present in two types of mineralised facies: i) quartz veins with coarse visible[…]

Uralmashplant JSC (UZTM), part of the UZTM-KARTEX Group, the leading Russian manufacturer of mining equipment, recently won the tender for supply of five walking draglines to the leading Indian mining concern Coal India Ltd (CIL). On March 25, in Kolkata, Yan Tsenter, CEO of UZTM-KARTEX Managing Company and Binay Dayal, Technical Director of Coal India[…]

Back in 2019, Nokia and Telefónica Peru signed a contract with MMG’s Minera Las Bambas to enable digitalisation and automation projects at its site in Cotabambas, Apurimac region, including deploying a private 4G LTE network which was duly commissioned in July 2020, the first in Peru. MMG said: “The installation of the private LTE network has increased the capacity to transmit[…]

The leading Latin American and global designer and manufacturer of mining equipment solutions, Conymet Duratray, has chosen Victoria for its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and global HQ, in a big win for the State. Conymet Duratray International will grow its current Victorian footprint by onshoring overseas manufacturing functions and establishing a new innovation division at[…]

Metso Outotec has signed a contract with an Indian customer for the supply of a large capacity Grate-Kiln pellet plant in the State of Odisha, India. The contract is booked in the Metals business line March quarter orders received. Typically, the value for this type of an order is in the range of €30-40 million[…]

Northvolt has signed a supply agreement with Pon Equipment for battery systems to be integrated into the Z-line series of battery electric excavators. An initial order of Voltpack Core lithium-ion battery systems will provide Pon, the Cat dealer for Norway and the Netherlands, with a technical solution to be used in combination with electric powertrains[…]

Normet says it has delivered another large fleet of underground utility equipment, in this case concrete sprayers and mixers, to Codelco’s Chuquicamata Underground copper mining project in Chile from its in country factory in Santiago, which is one of its main production sites globally outside of the home factory in Iisalmi, Finland and the Kingnor[…]

Chinese autonomous haulage technology major TAGE Idriver says the most common question it is asked in mining  is how fast the autonomous trucks can run. “Why do so many people pay attention to the speed of driverless mining trucks? Mining trucks running faster transport more ore, which can naturally bring more income to mining enterprises.[…]