Archives: Mining equipment

Powering through the toughest materials, the Cat® 6020 Hydraulic Mining Shovel meets the mining industry’s need for durable, reliable and highly efficient digging performance. To align with the rest of the Cat hydraulic mining shovel lineup, the model nomenclature has been updated from the Cat 6020B to the 6020. Today’s 6020 shovel Caterpillar says offers[…]

Richard Roberts, Editorial Director at Beacon Events, recently interviewed some key figures at Hexagon ahead of its participation at the IMARC event in Sydney in October 2024. Wendy Hodgetts, Safety Manager at the Rosebery zinc-copper mine in western Tasmania, gave a warts-and-all deep dive on the historic mine’s introduction of a state-of-the-art operator alertness system[…]

Alamos Gold has become the latest company to add Cat R2900 XE diesel-electric loaders to its fleet, with the Canada-based miner reporting in its latest quarterly results that the LHDs have contributed to a significant increase in mining rates at the Young-Davidson mine in Ontario. The R2900 XE features a switch reluctance electric drive system[…]

Weir has been awarded the contract to supply a large ø2.4m x 2.25 m Enduron® HPGR (high-pressure grinding rolls) for De Grey Mining’s flagship Hemi gold project in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Hemi has a mineral estimate of 10.5 Moz and at full capacity, the processing plant will have a nameplate throughput of 10[…]

In what it says is another significant win, MMS has been awarded a second contract with Red 5 (formerly Silver Lake Resources), in Western Australia. Over the 12-month contract, MMS will deliver load and haul services; deploying a 100-t fleet including a near-new Hitachi EX1200 excavator. This contract solidifies the partnership between MMS and Red[…]

Movex Innovation is set to showcase its line of ultra-compact electric, remote-controlled mini loaders, designed to tackle spillage and blockages in a range of applications, at MINExpo 2024, in Las Vegas, next month. Material spillage continually challenges mine worldwide and poses significant operational and safety concerns. Traditional clean-up methods, such as manual shovelling and water[…]

Chris Carpenter, VP of Technology for Weir ESCO®, is on a crusade to educate the mining industry on the importance of orebody knowledge. As an executive with more than 35 years of experience and 40 patents to his name, he has heard numerous stories about “sub-optimal operational decisions” being made at mine sites due to[…]

On August 12, Chinese mining equipment major XCMG and mining giant Rio Tinto signed a global cooperation framework agreement in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. At the same time, XCMG and SimFer Company, a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Chinalco Group, signed a statement of work for the Simandou mining project. This marks a[…]

Metso says it has been awarded an order to deliver grinding mills to an African copper mining project, with the order representing approximately €20 million ($22 million) of business. Metso’s scope of delivery consists of energy-efficient HIGmill™ high-intensity stirred mills with auxiliary equipment and services, it says. The OEM has experience with over 8,000 grinding[…]

BEUMER Group has been selected by Warrior Met Coal to support the expansion of Blue Creek mine, a new state-of-the-art underground longwall mine producing steelmaking coal. The extracted coal is to be processed on surface in a coal preparation plant before being moved over 14 km to a train loadout station. The BEUMER Group recently[…]