Archives: Mining equipment

IAMGOLD says it has completed its first gold pour at the Côté Gold Mine, in Ontario, Canada, less than 90 days since the start of pre-commissioning activities. Côté Gold is operated as a joint venture between IAMGOLD, as the operator, and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd. Renaud Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer of IAMGOLD, said:[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd has announced that it will begin full-scale production of dump trucks at its Guelph, Ontario factory in fiscal year 2026, namely Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing Ltd. This is its wholly-owned subsidiary currently responsible for the production and remanufacturing of dump truck maintenance and service parts and the move will establish[…]

There are now 18 extended-range hybrid autonomous rigid wide-body mining trucks running without a safety monitor in the cabin at China Coal Group’s Biesikuduke open-pit mine in Xinjiang province. These are ‘new energy’ TG136HA units, which have only recently been launched and were independently designed by Tage Idriver and developed with OEM partner SDLG. The[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions distributor Avesco has expanded its European sales territory to offer Sandvik construction equipment and solutions in Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Sandvik and Avesco have a long-standing partnership dating back to 1999 in Switzerland. The Swiss family-owned trading and services company has also served as a Sandvik[…]

Tribe Technology PLC, a disruptive developer and manufacturer of autonomous equipment for the mining industry, has announced the completion of the company’s first TTDS GC 700 autonomous drill rig. This major milestone in the development of the company it says is a result of over 150,000 development hours. This initial machine has been manufactured for[…]

We’re pleased to announce that Business Sweden and International Mining Events, the organisers of The Electric Mine conference series, will be partnering on upcoming events to be hosted in Perth, Western Australia. The Electric Mine 2024, set to take place on May 21-23, at the Crown Perth, will now be complemented by The Australian-Swedish Sustainable[…]

Epiroc says its SmartROC C50 will now be available with a choice of two feeds, the standard feed or a long feed, allowing the drill rig to deliver even more metres per shift. This rig combines high penetration rates with superior hole quality – even in the most challenging conditions, the company claims. The long[…]

Redpath (Australia) Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Redpath Mining Inc, has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire RUC Mining Contractors Pty Ltd (RUC). Pending regulatory approvals, it is expected that the acquisition will be completed and for RUC to officially become part of Redpath by June 2024. George Flumerfelt, Chief Executive[…]

Metso is introducing the latest unit, the Nordberg® HP350e™, to its Nordberg HPe crusher series launched in 2023, saying the crusher offers enhanced performance, higher uptime, easier and safer maintenance, and a series of other improvements. The Nordberg HPe crushers are engineered to meet the evolving and constantly increasing performance needs of the aggregates and[…]

Trafo Power Solutions says it is supplying three mini-substations and two transformers to a copper-zinc mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of an expansion at the operation. David Claassen, Managing Director of Trafo Power Solutions, says the pressure was on from early in the planning stages to ensure this critical equipment[…]