Archives: Mining maintenance

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has conducted successful tests of a 12-cylinder gas variant of the mtu Series 4000 L64 engine running on 100% hydrogen fuel. The tests, carried out by the Power Systems business unit, showed very good characteristics in terms of efficiency, performance, emissions and combustion. These tests mark another important step towards[…]

SEA Electric has made the next step in its journey to electrify the world’s commercial vehicle fleet, by signing a significant Memorandum of Understanding with MEVCO, a leading systems integrator focused exclusively on electric light commercial vehicles within the mining industry. The partnership will see specialist all-electric Toyota Hilux and Landcruiser models made available for[…]

Diemme Filtration’s GHT5000F Domino, the largest filter press in the world, is finally in operation. IM can reveal that the unit is running at the Toquepala copper mine in Peru, which is operated by Southern Copper Corporation (SCC), a majority owned subsidiary of Grupo Mexico. The unit first arrived in Peru in the summer of[…]

HARD-LINE, Murray Engineering, and Beltor Engineering have combined their expertise for quicker, safer, and more productive solutions to recover buried vehicles in underground mines. Beltor provides the Mine Extraction Device (MED), that is remotely operated using HARD-LINE’s radio remote control (RRC), by the specially trained extraction team from Murray Engineering. “The remote Beltor Machine Extraction[…]

FLSmidth and Sibanye-Stillwater’s subsidiary company Keliber have entered into an agreement for the supply of pyro-processing technology to the Keliber project’s lithium hydroxide refinery in Kokkola. The agreement is of great strategic importance to both companies, building on the existing relationship involving testing and engineering for the Kokkola lithium hydroxide refinery. FLSmidth is set to[…]

CMS Cepcor Group has reached an agreement with Columbia Steel Casting Co Inc to purchase key commercial and technical assets while Columbia Steel’s plant in Portland, Oregon has closed after a history dating back to 1901. The agreement will see the CMS Cepcor Group incorporate a new company called Columbia Steel Cast Products LLC, which[…]

VoltVision, a UK-based specialist in digitised industrial power networks, says it has expanded its international presence with the opening of a global power analytics centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. The centre will provide expert technical interpretation of performance data from clients’ high and medium voltage (HV and MV) electrical networks  worldwide. It will also pioneer[…]

Iron ore miner Roy Hill has announced it will expand its autonomous haulage system (AHS) from March 2023, converting its mixed fleet of 96 conventional haul trucks to driverless operation and creating the world’s largest autonomous mine. This is an increase from the 77 trucks originally set to be converted to running autonomously. Over three[…]

Osisko Mining Inc has filed the technical feasibility study report prepared by BBA Inc on its 100% owned Windfall gold deposit in the Abitibi greenstone belt, within the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec, Canada. The project has total proven and probable mineral reserves of 12.2 Mt grading 8.06 g/t Au and 4.18 g/t[…]

Civmec has secured the award of a major contract worth more than A$330 million for the Rio Tinto Western Range Project at their Paraburdoo iron ore site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The iron ore project includes greenfields and brownfields scope with the construction of a new Run of Mine (ROM) pad, primary[…]