Archives: Precious metals

Kinross Tasiast gold mine continuous improvement (CI) and mobile maintenance departments have teamed up to develop and implement two new CI initiatives that are saving the mine in Mauritania approximately $250,000 per year. In 2019, the mobile maintenance team noticed that replacing halogen lights on the Cat 793D trucks had contributed to 146 hours of[…]

Just two months after the announcement of the Electric Mine Consortium, BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale, three of the world’s biggest resource companies are the founding patrons of a new mining industry haul truck electrification collaboration, the Charge On Innovation Challenge, which is being facilitated by Austmine. It is described as “a global initiative for[…]

Caterpillar has announced an additional 1 billion tonnes of material hauled by autonomous trucks using Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling, surpassing the 3 billion tonnes milestone. This achievement is joined by an expansion of the types of commodities hauled autonomously across a growing number of Cat mining truck class sizes, as well as other brands of mining equipment. “Since surpassing[…]

A team of international researchers, including Dr Rich Crane from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, have developed a new method to extract metals, such as copper, from their parent orebody. The research team which also includes experts from the University of Western Australia, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and[…]

TOMRA says it is tapping the potential of digitalisation with a constantly expanding offer of digital services to help mining operations improve their efficiency and profitability – most recently with the introduction of the new augmented reality tool for remote assistance, TOMRA Visual Assist. It states: “In a challenging market, mining companies under increasing pressure[…]

In one of its latest achievements, Johannesburg-based Trafo Power Solutions has designed and supplied a dry-type transformer to a gold mine expansion project in Kyrgyzstan where the custom-engineered unit will function at -40⁰C temperatures at 4,020 m altitude. The company has provided a 3,000 kVA transformer with a primary 6.3 kV and a secondary 400[…]

Gold Fields Ltd advises that its Board of Directors has given the green light for the construction of a 40 MW solar plant at the South Deep gold mine mine in South Africa. This follows the granting of a licence by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa on 25 February 2021. The 40 MW[…]

Finland and Germany-based UTG Mixing Group’s expertise has been felt across the mining value chain, with a wide range of system solutions for atmospheric leaching reactors, pressurised autoclaves, concentration basins, ore preparation containers and slurry storage tanks. Acquired by SPX FLOW in 2021, UTG complements the group’s global portfolio of mixing and blending solutions, which[…]

Centamin has announced it has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contracts for the 36 MW solar farm and 7.5 MW battery–energy storage system at the Sukari Gold Mine to juwi AG and Giza Systems. juwi AG has been contracted to design, supply and integrate the Sukari solar and battery plant into the current diesel[…]

Back in January, Canadian gold mining junior Osisko Development Corp with its flagship Cariboo Gold Project, located near Wells, central British Columbia, announced that a new Sandvik MT720 continuous miner (roadheader) had been delivered to the Cariboo site. The company is using the technology for drift development at the existing Bonanza Ledge Phase II mine[…]