Archives: Mining maintenance

The Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT) is the well known global ‘safety by design’ initiative established in 2006 by mining companies to fill the functional performance expectations gap between earth moving equipment users and equipment designers. In its just released 2021 Activity Report, EMESRT provides in-depth updates on its four current industry projects[…]

BAE Systems, a leader in electric propulsion, says it will bring its next-generation power and propulsion technology to the heavy-duty industrial vehicle market. The company’s electric drive system it says “provides a revolutionary design which will help industrial vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) get their electric vehicles (EVs) to market faster and at a lower[…]

Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President, Marna Cloete, announced at the African Mining Indaba Conference the completion of the Shaft 1 production changeover at the company’s tier-one Platreef palladium, rhodium, nickel, platinum, copper and gold project in South Africa, operated by Ivanplats. Shaft 1 will serve as Platreef’s initial production shaft and is[…]

Mining major Teck Resources says its RACE21™ mining innovation team has supported an on-the-ground team in designing a new system to load railcars safely, efficiently and accurately, while increasing the speed of train loading and maximising the available capacity of railcars. While observing railcars loading steelmaking coal at Teck-owned Fording River Operations, Automation Specialist and[…]

Antofagasta Minerals marked a major milestone on 27 April with the official inauguration of an Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC) in the city of Antofagasta to manage operations at its Centinela mine in the northern Chilean Antofagasta region. The $66.2 million IROC is expected to improve safety and productivity as well as enhance the quality[…]

thyssenkrupp Mining Technologies’ Martin Lurie, Global Technology, Innovation and Sustainability Manager, exclusively told the In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) 2022 conference, organised by International Mining Events and taking place this week in Cancun, Mexico, that it is partnering with a top-10 global copper miner to build two full-scale Rail Running Conveyor (RRC) systems, the first[…]

FAST2 Mine is a leading provider of mining control and fleet management systems with its base in Santa Cruz do Sul in Brazil, and its CEO Eder Griebeler recently told IM it is expanding its operations globally after doubling in size each year for the last five years and successfully implementing the system at over[…]

British Gypsum’s Barrow-upon-Soar gypsum mine in the UK, part of Saint-Gobain, and supplying a nearby plaster plant which is the largest and most advanced in Europe, recently invested in two low profile underground lithium battery-powered gypsum haulers to cut CO2 emissions by a quarter. By replacing existing diesel-powered units, it is estimated these improvements will[…]

The launch of Anglo American’s hydrogen-powered ultra-class mine haul truck – newly named nuGen™ – has been set for May 6, 2022 at Anglo Platinum’s Mogalakwena open pit platinum operation in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The final achievement of first public movement of the truck, a converted 291 t class Komatsu 930E, will be a[…]

Monadelphous Group has announced several new contracts and contract extensions in the resources and energy sectors in Australia and Papua New Guinea, including work with Rio Tinto, Tronox Mining Australia and Newcrest Mining. The awards totalled some A$230 million ($172 million). One of the contracts the engineering firm has secured is with Rio Tinto for[…]