Archives: Mining maintenance

Thiess has announced it has been awarded its first mining services contract since establishing in the United States earlier in 2021. Thiess will undertake mining works, including excavation and hauling of material and maintenance activities, at a hard rock mine in Colorado during 2022. Thiess Executive Chairman and CEO Michael Wright said: “We’re truly excited[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has finalised plans to open a nearly 40,000 square-foot facility to support its customers in Western Canada with local parts storage, a workshop for components, and customer service support. The brand new facility in its Canadian network is located in the Campbell Heights business park area of Surrey, British Columbia.[…]

Global technology leader ABB has announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the adoption of new and sustainable technologies in mining. The two companies are now creating solutions for digitally integrated all-electric operations to help meet industry goals on net-zero emissions. In a first demonstration, ABB Ability™ Operations Management System (OMS)[…]

One of a handful of companies offering a full range of battery electric underground mining machinery, as well as its well established core underground mining monorails business, SMT Scharf AG has been informed today by its core shareholders, Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG and Share Value Stiftung, as well as Shareholder Value Management AG, that they[…]

An important milestone was recently reached – Boliden’s Kevitsa nickel mine has started truck tests on its new electric trolley line. In the coming year, 13 Komatsu 227 t 830E-5 trucks will be converted to partially running on electricity via trolley assist. This means that the mine’s carbon dioxide emissions connected to transport in Kevitsa[…]

LKAB, operator of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine, will trial a Sandvik TH550B battery-electric truck and Sandvik LH518B battery-electric loader in northern Sweden. Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and LKAB will partner for a 12-month collaborative trial of the third-generation battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) under the mining company’s project to set a new world[…]

In collaboration with the world’s third largest gold producer, AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), mining technology specialists Ramjack Technology Solutions (RAMJACK) has announced the launch of its Remote Operations Centre as-a-service for AGA’s Iduapriem Mine in Tarkwa, Ghana. With an emphasis on improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), the collaboration makes use of RAMJACK’s Remote Operations Centre (rROC)[…]

Clough’s recently launched asset services business, e2o Asset Services, has been awarded a shutdown scope at Newcrest’s Lihir gold mine on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, it says. The scope awarded includes support shutdown maintenance activities, with the asset services team working with Newcrest to prepare, plan, schedule, execute, close out and improve the site’s[…]

Metso Outotec says it has experienced substantial growth in its Life Cycle Services (LCS) business by capturing more than 100 new customer agreements during 2021. The customer base for the new agreements covers global and regional mining companies and large as well as mid-size quarries and aggregates contractors. An LCS agreement is typically signed for[…]

BHP is one of the most experienced global miners in terms of fully autonomous blasthole drilling, now with a large fleet and having used both new autonomous machines as well as retrofitting older models in the Pilbara going back some years across its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operations – most recently at South Flank[…]