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The scale of the second edition of the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh in January 2023 showed that there is huge potential for mining in Saudi Arabia – and therefore it represents a major growth market for the big mining equipment and technology OEMs. IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently met up with Mansoor Eskandanian,[…]

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd’s Hishikari mine is the first Japanese underground mine utilising automated loading technology from Sandvik. Sandvik says AutoMine® will help enable increased productivity, improved safety and better cost control, while bringing digital transformation of the mining process closer and increasing operational transparency. The Hishikari mine, located in northern Kagoshima Prefecture, boasts[…]

Mines with large diesel-powered haul truck fleets are looking to the future of zero emissions operation with new technologies like battery electric but for now they want to make inroads with decarbonisation with their existing fleets. One option for doing this is hydrogen (more specifically hydrogen and oxygen mixture, HHO, gas) produced from electrolysis which[…]

Global mineral processing solutions company Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is this year to integrate its two recent South African acquisitions into the Sandvik company structure – with the aim of becoming the preferred crushing and screening supplier to the mining industry in Africa. Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions South Africa will be formed from Kwatani, acquired[…]

New Gold has ordered four more Sandvik LH518B battery-electric loaders for its New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia. The new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) will join the first-ever Sandvik LH518B, which New Afton trialled in late 2020 before purchasing in February 2021, and two Sandvik Z50 BEV trucks also operating at the mine. Located approximately[…]

FLSmidth has been selected to supply its ninth high performance semi-mobile crushing plant in a row to leading copper miner First Quantum Minerals. This new crushing plant will increase production and efficiency, contributing to the customer’s expansion plans in Africa. Following the successful commissioning of a semi-mobile crushing plant in early 2022, which is the[…]

With the aim of advancing towards increasingly sustainable mining with cleaner energy, Caserones, a copper mine in Chile operated by SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile, and indirectly 100% owned by JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation of Japan, has signed an agreement with the Swiss company Retrofitting to Zero (RTZ) to carry out an engineering[…]

FLSmidth’s Capital Markets Day on January 18, 2023 marked the culmination of a major portfolio review that really ramped up on the completion of its acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s mining business on September 1, 2022. But the overall change at FLSmidth also runs much deeper – Group CEO Mikko Keto also said during the CMD event[…]

RPMGlobal’s software & technology solutions span the whole mining industry from exploration to closure. But two areas – ESG and zero emissions mining fleets – are very topical at the moment and very much in its wheelhouse. IM Editorial Director, Paul Moore, had the chance to talk in-depth with the company at IMARC 2022. Starting[…]

Santiago, Chile-based IOT Chile has been acquired by Australian mining technology company, Vayeron in a deal that gives Vayeron, a Mackay, Queensland-based business an immediate and direct entry into South American markets such as Chile and Peru. The acquisition closed on December 31, 2022 and sees Vayeron bring on board the small but skilled and[…]