Archives: Steel and iron ore

Komatsu Ltd has announced that it and Anglo American Minas–Rio have signed a memorandum of understanding through Komatsu Brazil International Ltda, a wholly owned subsidiary of Komatsu, to carry out a trial of a large ICT mining bulldozer with remote control functionality. The companies intend to trial a D375Ai–8 teleremote control bulldozer at the Minas–Rio iron[…]

Mineral process equipment specialist Multotec’s global reach has recently been highlighted with the supply of slurry pumps to a chrome project in Kazakhstan. According to Gerhard Hendriksz, General Manager, responsible for slurry pumps at Multotec, an order of 38 slurry pumps was delivered in mid-December 2021 through a collaboration of Multotec’s international business team and[…]

The Musonoi River Valley in the Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has, for some decades, been the site of land degradation resulting from inadequate and ineffective tailings and other waste management systems. The local water system and surrounding land has been subjected to pollution from more than 83.2 Mt of[…]

Metso Outotec has launched the Ferroflame™ LowNOx burner for travelling grate pelletising plants to enable pellet plant operators to, it says, achieve the stringent nitrogen oxide emission targets with ease. The new burner is part of the company’s Planet Positive offering focused on environmentally-efficient technologies. The Ferroflame LowNOx burner uses high-speed dilution, which is an[…]

eCombustible Energy LLC, a leading innovator and provider of customisable hydrogen-based fuel for thermal industrial applications, has received authorisation from Brazil’s Ministry of State for the Environment and Sustainable Development to begin construction and installation activities of its patented fuel supply modules at a nickel mine in Brazil operated by Anglo American. Anglo has two[…]

Dyno Nobel, a business of Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL), has announced that it will supply Fortescue Metals Group’s Iron Bridge Magnetite Project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region with its DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY™ blasting technology. The six-year performance-based contract builds on Dyno Nobel’s existing relationship with Fortescue in the Pilbara. The company says DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY tailors the[…]

An electric Scania Heavy Tipper truck is set to operate at LKAB’s iron ore mine in Malmberget, northern Sweden, alongside an electric crane truck specially adapted for these mining operations, giving Scania a chance to test and operate fully-electric trucks in a demanding underground mine environment. The heavy tipper has a total weight including load[…]

Mineral Technologies, a Downer company, has added a new spiral separator to its MD range with the Australia-made WW7. The WW7 are manufactured in the company’s ISO9001:2015-accredited Australian manufacturing facility and shipped to customers worldwide. Designed with improved wash-water diverters, the new WW7 is great for operations requiring a simpler method of wash-water addition and[…]

Chilean magnetite iron ore major Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP) has chosen Diemme Filtration as a partner for the installation of a tailings filtration system at its iron pelletisation plant in the Huasco Valley. Forming part of its focus on sustainability, the dewatering technology will make it possible to store dry cake as waste and[…]

The National Institute of Industrial Property has granted the University of Chile the third and last patent related to the autonomous navigation and loading system that its Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) has developed for low-profile front-end loaders (LHDs) that are used in underground mining. Specifically, the patent corresponds to a method of assistance for[…]