Archives: Steel and iron ore

Chris Carpenter, VP of Technology for Weir ESCO®, is on a crusade to educate the mining industry on the importance of orebody knowledge. As an executive with more than 35 years of experience and 40 patents to his name, he has heard numerous stories about “sub-optimal operational decisions” being made at mine sites due to[…]

On August 12, Chinese mining equipment major XCMG and mining giant Rio Tinto signed a global cooperation framework agreement in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. At the same time, XCMG and SimFer Company, a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Chinalco Group, signed a statement of work for the Simandou mining project. This marks a[…]

Engineering company Monadelphous Group Limited has been awarded new construction contracts in the iron ore and renewable energy sectors, with the revenue contribution attributable to Monadelphous expected to total approximately A$340 million ($225 million). In iron ore, Mondium, the company’s engineering, procurement and construction joint venture with Lycopodium, has been awarded a design and construct[…]

BEUMER Group has been selected by Warrior Met Coal to support the expansion of Blue Creek mine, a new state-of-the-art underground longwall mine producing steelmaking coal. The extracted coal is to be processed on surface in a coal preparation plant before being moved over 14 km to a train loadout station. The BEUMER Group recently[…]

The first hydrogen-powered T 264 haul truck prototype, developed by Liebherr and Fortescue, has arrived on site at Fortescue’s Christmas Creek mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for testing in a real-life mining environment. The site-based testing of this T 264 prototype, known as Europa, will take place over the coming months and[…]

Cokal Limited’s 60% owned subsidiary, PT Bumi Barito Mineral (BBM), has signed a binding agreement with PT Cipta Bersama Indonesia (CBI) to develop an underground mining operation at Pit 1 of the BBM Metallurgical coal mine, to produce a pulverised coal injection (PCI) product. This strategic agreement represents a significant windfall for Cokal, as there[…]

Komatsu and Rio Tinto have reached a historic milestone, with Rio Tinto’s Pilbara operations in Western Australia accepting delivery of its 300th autonomous haulage system (AHS) truck this month. Komatsu and Rio Tinto initially signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2011 to deploy 150 AHS trucks to the Rio Tinto site, and, 13 years later,[…]

EVZ Limited’s wholly owned subsidiary, Brockman Engineering, has been awarded a bulk process water tanks package by Rio Tinto as part of the seawater desalination project at Parker Point, Dampier. The ASX-listed company said this “major contract” had a total contract value of A$23 million (15.1 million). The package includes design and procurement, with works[…]

Tribe Technology PLC, a disruptive technology-first developer and manufacturer of world-class autonomous mining equipment, has announced the shipment of its first autonomous reverse circulation TTDS GC 700 drill rig from the manufacturing site in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This is a major milestone for the company and is the culmination of significant engineering hours over the[…]

Wabtec Corporation has announced an order for Evolution Series ES43ACmi locomotives from SimFer, a joint venture among the Government of the Republic of Guinea, Rio Tinto, and Chalco Iron Ore Holdings (CIOH). The order, valued at $277 million, will provide a locomotive fleet to service the rail operations for the Simandou high-grade iron ore project,[…]