Archives: Mining industry recognition

Vale has topped its fellow Tier 1 miners with a plan to invest at least $2 billion in an effort to combat climate change. The amount, the largest ever committed by the mining industry to combat climate change, according to the company, is geared towards reducing its direct and indirect absolute emissions (Scope 1 and[…]

Teams behind automation and battery-electric equipment projects have become the latest recipients of Epiroc’s two annual awards. The United in Performance Award and Inspired by Innovation Award recognised close collaboration with a mining company that strengthened the customer’s productivity through automation, as well as the development of battery-electric equipment that brings multiple benefits to the[…]

Australia’s mining equipment and technology services (METS) sector is set to benefit from further funding from the government’s SME Export Hubs Initiative after being named in the Australia Government’s recent financial support program. Karen Andrews, the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, and Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, said the funding[…]

A new sponsorship partnership between the Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution (CEEC) and the University of Adelaide’s Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources (IMER) will, CEEC says, enhance greater opportunities for innovation in the resources sector. IMER operates at the international forefront of the mineral, energy and resource sectors, with 200 of the world’s experts[…]

BHP has joined Responsible Steel, the international non-profit organisation that brings together organisations from across the steel supply chain, including steel makers, commodity producers and civil society groups. Responsible Steel works with these groups to increase sustainability through the steel making supply chain, according to BHP, with the organisation having created a new standard and[…]

The three big mining equipment OEMs that come under owner Schmidt Kranz Group are currently repositioning themselves, rebranding and building up the new unified GHH Group, a new brand which now represents one of the largest suppliers of machines for mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering. The new GHH Group brand includes GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH[…]

Contract miner Byrnecut Australia has become the first underground operator in the world to successfully use a new automation and teleremote package for Sandvik development drills. Byrnecut introduced a Sandvik DD422i development drill featuring the package to OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill gold-copper mine, southeast of Coober Pedy, South Australia, in March. With COVID-19 travel restrictions[…]

Central Asia Metals Ltd’s (CAML) first sustainability report highlighted just how far the base metal producer is going to improve safety, reduce its environmental impact and stand out from the rest of AIM-listed mining crowd. CAML has long been recognised as the most generous dividend payer on the AIM Mining stage, in London, and, COVID-19[…]

The mining industry is often associated with massive pits either excavated into the ground or underneath the surface, writes Andrew Berryman, President – Mining, Minerals and Metals Services, Worley. Concern about the environmental impact of extracting minerals has existed for some time and shows no sign of abating. Despite big strides in technology, according to[…]

The mining company response to COVID-19 has been well documented with leaders in the industry providing funds on a local and national scale, as well as shutting down susceptible operations, to tackle the virus outbreak and ‘flatten the curve’. The mining equipment, technology and services (METS) side is also doing its bit for the cause.[…]