Archives: Steel and iron ore

Weir Minerals has announced the global launch of its newest offering in the slurry transportation space: Linatex® ceramic hose. The ceramic hose combines its Linacure® rubber with high-quality, 92% alumina ceramic tiles, providing a robust option for operators dealing with abrasive minerals. Optimised through comprehensive trials in real mining applications – Linatex® ceramic hose is[…]

LKAB says that delivery of its ReeMAP project pilot plant is imminent with all parts for the apatite flotation process pilot plant due to arrive to its R&D station at the Kiruna mine in Sweden during March 2020. Once on-site, the company says it will assemble all parts, test and verify the system to make[…]

Two major manufacturers of mining machinery and equipment are now cooperating on the world market: GHH from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and MacLean from Ontario, Canada, announced their cooperation at a plant inauguration in Mexico in February. MacLean intends to use the new production facility in Queretaro to reach customers in Latin America in particular, and to[…]

RCT says it has finalised an automation project with port, logistics and infrastructure specialist Qube Bulk at the Whyalla Port in South Australia. In 2019 RCT installed and commissioned its ControlMaster® Line of Sight automation solution as well as a single camera teleremote solution onto a Liebherr R920 excavator working at the port. RCT says[…]

Having previously said it was weighing up a project to automate around 500 haul trucks across its Western Australia Iron Ore and Queensland Coal sites, BHP has shed more light on its autonomous haulage plans. The company made the ambitious admission in May 2019. It has since said it will introduce autonomous haulage at the[…]

Rio Tinto has approved a $98 million (100% basis) investment in a new solar plant at the Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network. The 34 MW solar photovoltaic plant is expected to supply all of Koodaideri’s electricity demand[…]

Outokumpu, a global leader in stainless steel manufacturing, has selected mining automation and digitalisation major, Sandvik, to deliver the OptiMine® digital platform as an underground operations management system to improve productivity at the Kemi chromite mine in Finland. “One of the key elements of digitalisation at Kemi Mine is improving the situational picture. By visualising[…]

STAS and Rio Tinto have agreed to commercialise an advanced compact filtration technology (ACF) for aluminium cast houses. The ACF technology, developed by Rio Tinto, will now be manufactured and sold under licence by equipment manufacturer STAS worldwide. The filtration technology was developed in the early 2000s at Rio Tinto’s Arvida Research and Development Centre[…]

Epiroc has signed a contract with Roy Hill to deliver a fully automated haul truck solution for the iron ore mining operation in Western Australia. In partnership with automation specialist ASI Mining – which Epiroc owns 34% of – Epiroc is to convert Roy Hill’s haul trucks from manned to autonomous use. The two will[…]

Vale has provided an update on its so-called dam decharacterisation plan, which it defines as “the process for a dam to be reincorporated into the relief and the environment.” Essentially it means that the tailings dam structure no longer serves its primary purpose of retaining tailings, ensuring zero risk for the environment and the surrounding[…]