Archives: Steel and iron ore

BHP has celebrated what it says is an historic agreement with PMW Industries and its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) team, which will see the 100%-owned-and-operated Banjima Pilbara Aboriginal Traditional Owner business maintain a semi-mobile crushing and screening plant at its Mining Area C operation, in the Pilbara, supported by new strategic partner and Mineral[…]

Thiess says it has been appointed mining services provider for the Iron Bridge Project in Western Australia. Under the initial three-year contract, Thiess will deliver mining and maintenance services and asset management services. Thiess Executive Chair & CEO Michael Wright said: “We are delighted to be joining forces with the Iron Bridge Project, a joint[…]

The entry of Metso Outotec into the bulk ore sorting space arguably heralds the beginning of a new stage of market adoption – one that is focused on significant throughputs across multiple commodities. In May, the mining OEM announced a collaboration agreement with Malvern Panalytical, a company that has been using Pulsed Fast Thermal Neutron[…]

Thiess looks like winning the acquisition tussle for fellow contract miner MACA after an increased all-cash offer was recommended by the MACA Board and NRW Holdings said it would no longer be pursuing a potential deal. Thiess recently increased its offer price from A$1.025 ($0.71) of cash per MACA share to A$1.0751 of cash per[…]

A big milestone has been reached for the 30 Mt/y Onslow Iron project, led by Mineral Resources (MinRes), with a positive final investment decision taken by all joint venture partners. The project is located 150 km east of Onslow in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia and is owned through the unincorporated Red Hill[…]

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a C$14.8 million ($11.4 million), two-year contract to provide design and engineering services for the Pedra de Ferro project in northeast Brazil for BAMIN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ERG. The Pedra de Ferro project involves an iron ore mining operation in the state of Bahia that extracts and processes two types[…]

Chilean iron ore miner Compania Minera del Pacífico (CMP) together with ENGIE Chile have signed an alliance that they say represents a major step in the decarbonisation of mining: the first pilot of haul trucks in Chile powered by natural gas in the form of LNG. The project contemplates the modification of two trucks, over[…]

In early June 2022, the first four of a fleet of 41 290 t Komatsu 930E haul trucks began  autonomous operations at BHP’s South Flank iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia – with the trucks controlled from a purpose-built control facility at the site. The transition to autonomous haulage is expected[…]

Vale says it has become the first major mining company to test 100% electric 72-tonne trucks, with the trial of the XCMG Mining Machinery Co. Ltd vehicles at its Brazil and Indonesia operations. The trial of the vehicles represent another step in the electrification of the company’s assets, it said, which is part of its[…]

Vale has added a second site to its Sustainable Sand efforts, having started industrial-scale production of the by-product at its Viga mine in Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The operation has the capacity to process 200,000 t/y of sand, with 80,000 t slated for 2022 and 185,000 t in 2023. Obtained from the treatment of iron[…]