Archives: Steel and iron ore

Anglo American says it has successfully completed a sea trial using biofuel blended with very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), reducing carbon emissions by approximately 10%, adding that the trial further demonstrates the potential for sustainable biofuel to be used as a ‘drop-in’ fuel, improving its viability to help reduce emissions in the shipping sector.[…]

Rolling off its production line today was the 400 t (metric) class diesel-electric AC drive XDE440 mining truck, claimed as the world’s largest by Xuzhou-headquartered Chinese construction and mining equipment giant XCMG. XCMG stated: “The XDE440, the world’s largest rear-drive rigid mining car, has rolled off the production line. This is not only an important[…]

Metso Outotec and Resources Pellets Concentrates Pvt Ltd (RPCL) have signed an agreement for the delivery of key technology for a 432 sq.m indurating machine in India. The value of the order is above €20 million ($22 million) and it has been booked in Metals’ Q1/2022 orders received. RPCL is a joint venture company owned[…]

IM Editorial Director Paul Moore visited the new Tribe Tech Group autonomous reverse circulation rig factory in Mallusk, just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland, to find out more about this remarkable start-up company, which has its second hub in Leederville, Western Australia, that has set out to totally revolutionise RC drilling with its Tribe Tech[…]

Before the Year of the Tiger roared into life on February 1, 2022, more than A$8 billion ($5.8 billion) was changing hands daily on the ASX as cheap debt, low cash rates and soaring stock markets bolstered investor confidence. As of December 31, 2021, a whopping 240 companies listed on the ASX via Initial Public[…]

NRW Holdings Limited says its Golding Contractors Pty Ltd subsidiary has received a Binding Letter of Intent to enter into a 5.5-year Mining Services Agreement with Wonbindi Coal Pty Ltd at the Baralaba North Mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The award is valued at approximately A$800 million ($592 million) and, the company says, continues the[…]

Tungsten West has named Fairport Engineering Limited as its engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contractor at the Hemerdon tungsten-tin project, in the UK, as well as confirmed it was soon expecting to receive seven X-ray Transmission (XRT) sensor-based ore sorters from TOMRA. Since successfully listing on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange,[…]

FLSmidth is launching two exciting developments in its flotation portfolio – the WEMCO II and the REFLUX™ Flotation Cell (RFC™) – at the MINEXCHANGE 2022 SME Annual Conference & Expo in Salt Lake City. The WEMCO II Flotation Cell builds upon the success of the industry standard, WEMCO, but with optimisations to the rotor and stator/hood that[…]

Australia-listed Metarock Group has banked two contract wins this week, one at the Cook Colliery in Queensland and one at the Maxwell underground coal project in New South Wales. The former has seen its Mastermyne subsidiary become the contract operator at Cook for Constellation Mining, a subsidiary of QCoal Group. The contract term of four[…]

Greenland Resources Inc is taking a different tack to mine haulage at its Malmbjerg molybdenum project in Greenland, laying out plans in a feasibility study to use a Doppelmayr RopeCon® aerial conveyor to transport ore to the concentrator. In a definitive feasibility study that outlined a 20-year open pit mine life with annual life of[…]