Archives: Steel and iron ore

Rio Tinto increased its spend with Australian suppliers to more than A$15.3 billion ($10.3 billion) in 2022, as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to support communities where it operates, it says. This was an increase of almost 9% on the previous year and was spent with more than 6,200 businesses, including Australia-owned and operated[…]

At CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) handed over the keys to the first construction machine made from fossil-free steel for a North American customer – and it’s the second delivery in the world. The machine, an A30G articulated hauler, has been purchased by Pennsy Supply Inc, a CRH company and long-standing[…]

Vale has announced that for the first time it has managed to produce commercial-quality iron ore pellets on an industrial scale without using anthracite coal. In a test carried out in a pellet plant in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais, Vale replaced 100% of the fossil fuel with biocarbon to fire the pellets (small balls of[…]

Anglesey Mining has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Swedish energy storage company Mine Storage International AB to investigate conceptual plans and designs for a pumped hydro-energy storage project at the company’s 49.75% owned Grängesberg iron ore mine after mining ceases. Pumped-hydro storage is a green-energy storage solution that uses water and gravity[…]

MACA says it has been awarded the mining contract at Atlas Iron’s McPhee Creek project, in the northeast Pilbara region of Western Australia, approximately 100 km north of the Roy Hill Mine. Thiess Group Executive Australia West and MACA CEO, David Greig, said: “MACA has a strong, 20-year history servicing the resources and construction industries,[…]

SSAB, a global leader in high-strength steel production, will be featurung Strenx® performance steel and the benefits it brings to construction equipment at the upcoming CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 event in Las Vegas, next week. Strenx is a high-strength structural steel that, SSAB says, successfully helps manufacturers around the world build stronger, lighter and more sustainable equipment.[…]

There was a lot to digest in Epiroc’s 2022 Annual & Sustainability Report, published today, both in the initial CEO comments from President and CEO Helena Hedblom and then in the full breakdown on areas relating to value-creating strategy and sustainability. As usual the most interesting aspect is how it views its own progress, and[…]

Queensland’s first ever all-female Mines Rescue Team has been formed at Anglo American’s Capcoal Open Cut Mine, near Middlemount, and is set to join the state’s competitive Mines Rescue Open Cut Circuit. Known as the Women of Steel, the team is made up of seven women who are now in training for the QMRS Mines[…]

A new bill is being put forward requesting state funding of $10 million for an overall $25 million trolley assist mining truck demonstration project at US Steel’s Minntac iron ore (taconite) mine in Minnesota, with a recent hearing held on March 1 before the Minnesota Senate’s Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate Committee. Supporting speeches were[…]

In one of the many iron ore mines in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, Liebherr says its LI3 common rail injector demonstrated its full performance potential. During the real-life test, which took place in cooperation with one of the world’s largest mining companies, this injector technology drove Liebherr’s 12-cylinder diesel V-engine. The D9812 installed in the[…]