Archives: Steel and iron ore

Created in 2010, Morocco-based JESA is jointly owned by phosphate mining major OCP and engineering house Worley, which acquired its stake when it bought Jacobs’ Energy, Chemicals & Resources division in 2019. As one of the largest engineering firms in Africa and Morocco, JESA covers mining, industry, urban development and infrastructure, and has just been[…]

Rio Tinto and Schneider Electric have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a “first-of-its-kind” collaboration to develop a circular and sustainable market ecosystem for both companies and their customers. This multi-product partnership will see Schneider Electric use responsibly-sourced materials produced by Rio Tinto. These include low-carbon aluminium and copper produced with renewable power, iron[…]

Back in March, IM revealed that Chinese mining truck OEM Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd (XEMC) had signed a contract with energy company SPIC for conversion of a 108 t class SF31904 AC drive rigid truck to run on all electric lithium battery power in Huolinhe coal mine, Inner Mongolia. The truck has now been[…]

Monadelphous Group Ltd has secured several new construction and maintenance contracts in the resources sector totalling around A$215 million ($163 million). Included within this slate of new work is a contract for smelter campaign maintenance works at the BHP owned Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia. Monadelphous said work will commence immediately and is[…]

Metso Outotec is to deliver multiple energy-efficient Vertimill® VTM-3000 stirred mills to Ferrexpo in Ukraine, with the vertical grinding mills set to become the largest of their kind to be installed in the country. Once the mills have been installed, Ferrexpo’s iron ore beneficiation complex will be the largest VTM installation on the continent, Metso[…]

As previously reported in IM, Rio Tinto will deploy the world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at its $2.6 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, but the company has now given much more detail on the project. The new vehicles, primarily used for dust suppression on site, will enhance productivity by[…]

Many mines struggle with crushing run-of-mine materials which can consist of a combination of clays, marls, other sticky materials, and hard stones. Traditional hard rock jaw and gyratory crushers work well with hard material but can pack and clog with soft, sticky, or wet feed. Komatsu states: “In the past, material hardness has limited where[…]

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall say they have now produced the world’s first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron at a pilot scale. The technological breakthrough in the HYBRIT initiative captures around 90% of emissions in conjunction with steelmaking and is a decisive step on the road to fossil-free steel, the partners say. The feat from the HYBRIT pilot[…]

Fortescue Metals Group will this week be joined by students across Western Australia to participate in a demonstration of the company successfully operating a dozer at its Pilbara operations from 1,500 kilometres away in Perth, Western Australia. In an Australian-first demonstration of Cat® MineStarTM Command for dozing’s long range remote operational capability, team members are[…]

Rio Tinto has enlisted the help of Immersive Technologies and its equipment simulators to further its autonomous haulage footprint at the new Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia. The mine, which will operate Caterpillar autonomous trucks equipped with Cat MineStar™ Command for Hauling system, will use simulation-based training solutions from Immersive Technologies to address[…]