Archives: Steel and iron ore

Anglo American has announced the appointment of Alison Atkinson as Group Director –Projects & Development and a member of Anglo American’s Group Management Committee, to take effect during the second quarter of 2023. Alison is currently the CEO of AWE, an arms-length body of the UK Government responsible for developing and maintaining essential elements of[…]

Swedish iron ore miner LKAB says it has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area, metals which are essential for, among other applications, the manufacture of electric vehicles and wind turbines. Following successful exploration, the company reports mineral resources of rare earth metals exceeding 1 Mt of rare earth oxides making[…]

Iron ore miner Roy Hill has announced it will expand its autonomous haulage system (AHS) from March 2023, converting its mixed fleet of 96 conventional haul trucks to driverless operation and creating the world’s largest autonomous mine. This is an increase from the 77 trucks originally set to be converted to running autonomously. Over three[…]

Civmec has secured the award of a major contract worth more than A$330 million for the Rio Tinto Western Range Project at their Paraburdoo iron ore site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The iron ore project includes greenfields and brownfields scope with the construction of a new Run of Mine (ROM) pad, primary[…]

Law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) is advising the Republic of Guinea on the $15 billion Simandou iron ore project, which it cites as the world’s largest mining and related rail and port infrastructure project today, and recently reviewed its role and the progress made to date. The Simandou project involves the exploitation of[…]

Boston Metal, a global metals technology solutions company, says it will deploy its molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) platform technology to recover high-value metals from mining waste in Brazil. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Boston Metal do Brasil and major Brazilian refined tin producer Mineração Taboca S.A. have signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the[…]

Thiess is one of the largest global surface mining services companies today, with fast growing businesses in metals and minerals, rehabilitation, technology and technical services. The term mining services is deliberate – because it is no longer enough to describe Thiess as a contractor, with many of its client relationships equating to long term alliances.[…]

The ASI Mining Board of Directors has announced the hiring of Diederik Lugtigheid as President of ASI Mining. Diederik joins ASI Mining from Roy Hill, where he was serving as Director for the AHS implementation at Roy Hill iron ore mine in Western Australia since 2021. In that role, Lugtigheid worked with ASI Mining and[…]

Duratec says it has secured a major contract with BHP WA Iron Ore (BHP WAIO) that will see it carry out wharf remediation works at the BHP Berth C&D at Finucane Island, in Port Hedland, Western Australia. The A$48 million ($32 million) project award follows a successful competitive tender (following early engineering input by Duratec’s[…]

Monadelphous Group has secured new contracts and contract extensions in the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors totalling approximately A$110 million ($74 million). The company says it has been reappointed to the BHP WAIO Site Engineering Panel for a three-year period to continue providing multi-disciplinary services at BHP’s mine site and port operations in the Pilbara[…]