Archives: Mining industry recognition

AusIMM says it has officially launched a three-year major partnership with renowned underground mining contractor Byrnecut. Introduced as part of AusIMM’s Underground Operators Conference in Perth, Western Australia, which hosts an audience of 1,200 mining representatives and professionals, the partnership will focus on supporting, mentoring and up-skilling Byrnecut professionals, as well as engaging in prominent[…]

Schlam says it has been certified as a Hardox® In My Body member for its Barracuda range of excavator, shovel and wheel loader buckets. The Barracuda range of buckets is custom made for the customer’s ground conditions, commodities, material properties and OEM earthmoving fleet, Schlam says. From high production lightweight buckets through to armoured buckets,[…]

Australia’s minerals industry is to introduce the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) system to, the Minerals Council of Australia says, further improve site-level performance through regular and transparent reporting on safety, environmental and social indicators, including partnerships with First Nations landholders and communities. Adopting TSM – implemented worldwide among key mining nations[…]

The Canada Mining Innovation Council’s (CMIC) Conjugate Anvil Hammer Mill (CAHM) and MonoRoll platform technology project has reached a new milestone with hot commissioning of the MonoRoll at COREM’s testing facility in Quebec, Canada. CAHM is a platform technology advancing two technologies in parallel where both designs break particles in a highly efficient thin particle[…]

BHP has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with leading Japanese steel producer, JFE Steel, to jointly study technologies and pathways capable of making material reductions to greenhouse gas emissions from the integrated steelmaking process. BHP is prepared to invest up to $15 million over the five-year partnership, which, it says, builds on the strong[…]

Vale is teaming up with the MIT Professional Education, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, SENAI CIMATEC and start-up accelerator The Bakery to help solve challenges related to decarbonisation, the circular economy, and health and safety. The MINE (Mining Innovation for a New Environment) program is offering 30 professionals the opportunity to help develop and build the[…]

The year has started strongly for mining services specialist Murray & Roberts Cementation, with a safety achievement of five million fatality-free shifts. According to Mike Wells, Managing Director of Murray & Roberts Cementation, this landmark has been reached as part of a concerted corporate journey towards Zero Harm. “This exciting milestone, which we reached in[…]

Epiroc continued to register strong demand for its equipment in the December quarter, with the mining OEM’s order intake increasing both in the underground and surface mining segments, the company reported today. Headline numbers from the December quarter included a 1% year-on-year increase in orders received to SEK9.3 billion ($1.1 billion), a 5% drop in[…]

Ten companies and consortia have been selected to advance to the laboratory test stage of the ‘BHP Tailings Challenge’, which is seeking solutions and new business models to reuse copper tailings. The company’s call was launched on June 16, 2020, with a total of 154 applications from 19 countries received. The challenge, conducted with the[…]

BHP has unveiled its plans to construct a wind fence at Finucane Island, in Port Hedland, Western Australia, as part of the company’s Pilbara Air Quality Program at its iron ore operations. The fence would be the first of its kind in Australia, and designed for the Pilbara’s unique weather conditions, it said. BHP Port[…]