Archives: Steel and iron ore

Terra Nova Technologies Australia (TNT Australia) says it has been awarded the replacement tailings stacker contract by Karara Mining Ltd at its magnetite mine, 200 km southeast of Geraldton in Western Australia. Karara Mining is the largest mining operation and the first major magnetite mine in the Mid-West of the state. It produces a premium,[…]

SRG Global Ltd says it has been awarded a mining services contract valued at around A$150 million ($108 million) with OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd that will see it carry out work at SIMEC Mining’s iron ore operations in South Australia. The scope of the contract includes the provision of specialist drill and blast services across[…]

NMDC Ltd has commissioned two R 9200 Liebherr face shovels at its Donimalai open pit iron ore mines in the Bellary district of India’s Karnataka state which recently restarted production. The machines were supplied through Liebherr India Private Ltd – Mining Division in Kolkata which covers sales and service of mining excavators and trucks in[…]

Anglo American’s new Aquila mine has achieved its first longwall shear of steelmaking metallurgical coal on schedule and on budget, marking the project’s final stages of construction and commissioning, it says. The Aquila mine, located near Middlemount in Central Queensland in Australia, extends the life of Anglo American’s existing Capcoal underground operations by seven years,[…]

Western Australia-based mining product and services supplier, Schlam, has launched the Hercules EXO, a next-generation mining dump body that, it says, offers iron ore miners both a higher payload potential and longer service life. The Hercules EXO is a 240-t-class iron ore specific dump body that is 20% lighter than the company’s existing Hercules dump[…]

Despite all the challenges of business travel and changing regulations due to COVID-19 – The Electric Mine 2022 conference, mine electrification focused event and one of the few dedicated face-to-face mining technology conferences to be scheduled in recent years, is now just over a week away in Stockholm, Sweden, being held 17-18 February at the[…]

BHP has welcomed the arrival of MV Mt. Tourmaline – the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier – that will transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia from 2022. The mining company has chartered five LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) for five years and awarded the LNG fuel contract to[…]

Global steel company NLMK Group has begun to launch its own wireless mobile network (private LTE) at the NLMK Lipetsk integrated steel production site and Stoilensky GOK iron ore mine and beneficiation plant some 350 km away. The Private LTE/5G network is set to be rolled out at all of the group’s production sites in[…]

NRW Holdings Limited’s wholly owned subsidiary, Golding Contractors Pty Ltd, has signed a contract with OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd, trading as SIMEC Mining, to extend the current Mining Services Agreement (MSA) for a further three years. Under the terms of the MSA, the term is extended until January 31, 2025, with an option for SIMEC[…]

EQ Resources Ltd says it has successfully secured A$600,000 ($422,386) in co-investment from the Australian Federal Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) via the A$30 million Commercialisation Fund. Combined investment from EQ Resources, its partners and AMGC, totalling A$1.97 million, will assist in commercialising industrial-scale operations for advanced minerals processing flowsheet developed for the Mt[…]