Archives: Steel and iron ore

Tata Steel’s Ores, Mines & Quarries (OMQ) Division has opened an 8 Mt/y crushing and washing plant at its Khondbond Iron and Manganese Mine (KIMM) near Joda in the Keonjhar district of Odisha, India. The facility was inaugurated today by T V Narendran, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Steel, in the presence of D B[…]

With the opening of Berco’s new R&D facility in Copparo, Italy, the manufacturer and supplier of undercarriage systems and components has cemented a growth plan that could see it gain further market share in both its OEM and aftermarket segments and expand its product range for mining applications. Covering 2,000 sq.m, the new department is[…]

TNG Ltd says an integrated design layout for its flagship Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia has been developed and delivered by Australian engineering and construction company, Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd. As announced in October, TNG appointed Clough to work with its project team and SMS group for Mount Peake[…]

At the end of October 2021, Ukraine’s Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod (NKMZ) shipped a skip mine winder of model ШПМ ЦШ-5х8 to the Sokolovsky iron ore mine of SSGPO in Kazakhstan, which is part of ERG. This is the fourth mine winder designed, manufactured and shipped to customers this year by the mining and press-forging equipment[…]

Veris Limited’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Aqura Technologies, has been selected to support Roy Hill in the design, install and commissioning of an expansion of its advanced Private 4G LTE network at its Pilbara iron ore mining operations in Western Australia. The new project builds upon Aqura’s first phase delivery of Roy Hill’s new Private 4G LTE[…]

Monadelphous Group Limited says it has secured new contracts and contract extensions in the resources sector totalling approximately A$110 million ($80.1 million). The company has secured a 12-month extension to its existing contract with BHP Iron Ore for the provision of general maintenance services for shutdowns, outages and minor capital works at the Mt Whaleback,[…]

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement for the delivery of key equipment for the expansion of an existing production line at the Ferrexpo Poltava Mining iron ore grate-kiln pellet plant, in Ukraine. The value of the equipment is €18 million ($20 million), and it has been booked in the company’s Metals Q4/2021 orders received, the[…]

Leading Swedish mining companies LKAB and Boliden have signed an agreement to begin working together to investigate the possibility of extracting pyrite concentrate from mining waste at the Boliden Aitik mine, which LKAB will subsequently process into fossil-free sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid will then be used in processes for extracting rare earth elements and[…]

One of the largest mining concerns in the world has ordered a SCHADE Stacker to operate in a mine in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. AUMUND Ltda (São Paulo) and SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH (Germany) cooperated closely to realise this project successfully. Raw material from the mine is processed in the iron ore production[…]

In the winter of 2021, Volvo Trucks, ABB and Vattenfall, in collaboration with the mining company Kaunis Iron and Wist Last & Buss, conducted a trial to test the limits of what is possible in terms of replacing the normal diesel-driven transport of finely ground iron ore concentrate from the iron ore mine in Kaunisvaara[…]