Archives: Steel and iron ore

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[…]

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[…]