Archives: Steel and iron ore

Rio Tinto and Scania have a long-term research and development collaboration agreement for the continuous advancement of autonomous mining truck technology, under which Rio Tinto’s Channar iron ore mine became the first active partner site for Scania’s autonomous mining solution, following early stage work at Dampier Salt. The partnership also includes options for the future[…]

Vale has announced a Memorandum of Understanding with XCMG, China’s mining and construction machinery major, to co-develop the world’s first zero-emission motor grader for mining activities. The power source was not mentioned in the statement but battery electric is the most likely option. The equipment, which is used to level mine access and haul roads,[…]

BAMIN, the wholly-owned Brazil-based subsidiary of Eurasian Resources Group, has signed an agreement with Anglo American that guarantees the acquisition of the full export volumes of BAMIN’s Pedra de Ferro mine for 2023. The Pedra de Ferro open-pit iron ore mine, in the city of Caetite, State of Bahia, has been in production since late[…]

Eliwana is one of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG)’s newest mines and commenced operations in December 2020 and it includes a 30 Mt/y dry OPF and 143 km of rail linking the mine to the Hamersley rail line. Together with Eliwana’s innovative low profile designed OPF and dual stacker reclaimer, Eliwana has the capacity to direct load[…]

Metso Outotec says it has been awarded an order to deliver concentrate dewatering filters for JISCO’s modernisation project in Gansu province, China. JISCO, ie Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., is the largest producer of carbon steel and stainless steel in northwest China. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery consists of the engineering, manufacturing and[…]

NRW Holdings Ltd has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Bunbury based company OFI Group Holdings Pty Ltd. OFI specialises in industrial electrical engineering, automation, switchboard design & manufacture, instrumentation and design & construction within the mining and resources sector, government and defence, fuels and explosives and other key markets. It said the acquisition augments[…]

BHP has signed an agreement for piloting of carbon capture and utilisation technology with China’s HBIS Group Co Ltd (HBIS), one of the world’s largest steelmakers and a major iron ore customer of BHP. As part of this new project, HBIS and BHP will trial pilot-scale demonstrations of carbon capture and utilisation technologies at HBIS’[…]

BHP and global engineering, project management and professional services firm, Hatch, have signed an agreement to design an electric smelting furnace pilot (ESF) plant in support of a decision to construct this facility in Australia. The facility will aim to demonstrate a pathway to lower carbon dioxide (CO2) intensity in steel production using iron ore[…]

Indiana-based Matrix Design Group is entering the truck bed analytics and monitoring market through a partnership with rubber body manufacturer GRT-VALLEY RUBBER, IM discovered at the SME MINEXCHANGE 2023 Annual Conference & Expo in Denver, USA, last month. Matrix, renowned in mining for its proximity detection and vision-based safety solutions, recently entered into a partnership[…]

In its 2022 Annual Report, released today, Weir Group reviews its performance from several angles – financially, strategically and of course from a sustainability standpoint. It says with large greenfield expansion projects slow to convert, miners met demand by accelerating production from existing assets and by developing harder and more complex ore deposits. Group revenue was[…]