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BEML Limited, a Govt of India undertaking under the Ministry of Defence and the country’s leading domestic surface mining equipment manufacturer has signed an important contract with Coal India Ltd for supply of a 20 m³ electric rope shovel, a new model called the BRS-21, for deployment in the mines of Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL).[…]

After operating for more than 60 years, Aggreko, a leading provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy solutions, is reflecting on its entrance to mining more than 30 years ago. The company, founded in 1962, entered the mining industry in 1991 and, about a decade later, pioneered modular cooling in underground mining. Aggreko[…]

About 1.2 million litres of diesel per year is what is consumed on average by a large mining truck, which causes the emission of 3,500 t of greenhouse gases (GHG), for which it is essential to look for clean alternatives, if the industry wants to meet its decarbonisation goals. In this context, a Mining Trolley[…]

In its 2022 Investor Day presentation on May 17, Caterpillar Inc through Group President of Resource Industries – Denise Johnson – gave more insight than before on the timeline for development and introduction of its battery electric zero emissions mining trucks. She mentioned first of course the zero emissions machine agreements that have been made[…]

Australia’s Electric Mine Consortium (EMC), made up of some of the world’s leading mining and service companies, has announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, to accelerate the electrification of mine sites globally. Announced at AWS Summit 2022, EMC is using AWS’s depth and breadth of services, including machine learning,[…]

One option for bringing the zero emissions benefits of battery electric today without the lead time or cost of a new underground BEV is a battery conversion, where Sweden’s Epiroc has been leading the way. While Epiroc’s first battery conversion, a 10 t class Scooptram ST1030 underground loader, was completed in Sudbury in Canada in[…]

New South Wales-based Batt Mobile Equipment (BME) has announced the release of its first BIT120, a 20 t Integrated Tool Carrier battery-electric retrofit system. The first machine is being sent to Gold Fields’ St Ives mining operation in Western Australia on a 12-month hire agreement. The company is also in the middle of another two[…]

Energy intensive industries, such as the mining and minerals sector, are under pressure from governments, investors, and society to reduce carbon emissions even as demand for these minerals grow. With most industry players commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, it is crucial that the mining industry is very deliberate about how it meets the[…]

In its just released Q1 2022 report, Torex Gold says with the Technical Report for its Morelos Complex in Mexico released, “our focus has shifted to bringing Media Luna into production on time and on budget.” The Technical Report provides a life of mine plan for the El Limón Guajes Mine Complex (ELG Mine Complex)[…]

After being announced as one of eight selected technology vendors to progress in the Charge On™ Innovation Challenge, Hitachi Energy has revealed a bit more about the solution it is preparing to present to interested mining companies, OEMs and investors as part of the next phase of the challenge. Founded by BHP, Rio Tinto and[…]