Archives: Mining services

Global mining drives major WEG via its Russian Commercial Operation WRU has completed a major project for customer PJSC Polyus Gold at its Natalka mine in the Magadan Region. The scope of supply included a pair of slip ring motors of 9,000 kW at 1,000 rpm and another two motors of 7,500 kW also at[…]

Terrafame’s bio heap leach nickel mine in Sotkamo has entered into an agreement with dealer Rotator Oy to renew the existing Hitachi mining equipment during 2022-2025. The agreement between Terrafame and Rotator includes two 369 t Hitachi EX3600-7 excavators and seven 181 t payload EH3500AC-3 sining trucks. In addition, the agreement includes an option to[…]

Canadian mining company Soma Gold, through its Colombian subsidiary Operadora Minera SAS, has awarded STRACON the contract for the execution of an access ramp at the Balvina Cordero project located in the Antioquia region of Colombia. This project will be developed over a period of nine months and includes the lateral development of the Fenix[…]

Teck is one of the global miners innovating now to enable it to stay on top of its future mining goals, exemplified by its RACE21™ company-wide program to transform how it mines by harnessing technology and innovation to generate significant new value and improve safety, sustainability and efficiency. In a December 2020 presentation entitled The Art[…]

De Beers Group has appointed Golder as the prime contractor to carry out the closure of the Victor Mine, Ontario’s first and only diamond mine which operated from 2008 through 2019. Following an extensive commercial process, Golder was selected to carry out the remaining closure activities, including demolition of the remaining infrastructure and rehabilitation of[…]

Capstone Mining has brought a second Caterpillar 994K wheel loader to its Pinto Valley operation in Arizona, USA, as it looks to reduce its emissions and improve its operating cost base at the copper mine. Last year, the mine added to its fleet a Cat 994K loader, which, the company says, burns circa-30 less gallons[…]

China Coal Beijing Coal Mining Machinery Co Ltd (BMJ) recently delivered a new set of 175 hydraulic roof supports to Russia’s Raspadskaya coal mining company, which is controlled by EVRAZ. The supports are for mining of number 48 seam in the Uskovskaya mine, which began in February 2021. The working face length is 300 m[…]

The boards of directors of Aggreko plc and Albion Acquisitions Ltd have reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended all-cash acquisition from I Squared Capital and TDR Capital for the mobile power provider. The £8.80/share offer values Aggreko at £2.32 billion ($3.2 billion). Earlier this week, Aggreko announced an underlying profit before[…]

iRing Inc has introduced what it says is an extensive, searchable, comprehensive Knowledge Base that provides answers to questions concerning the use of commercial explosives in mining and construction applications including the physics of the detonation reaction and how this is used in mining for fragmentation. The iRing Knowledge Base provides in-depth analysis and descriptions[…]

TOMRA Sorting Mining has introduced the TOMRA ACT user interface together with a new image processing pipeline and additional process data for TOMRA Insight, all of which will, the company says, enable improvements in the overall sorting process for greater productivity and profitability. The new TOMRA ACT graphical user interface (UI) brings a fundamental change[…]