Archives: Steel and iron ore

Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, and Anglo American have agreed to work together on a feasibility study to assess the introduction of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight. Aurizon and Anglo American have entered into an agreement to conduct the study that will explore the application of Anglo American’s proprietary hydrogen fuel cell and battery[…]

LKAB, operator of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine, will trial a Sandvik TH550B battery-electric truck and Sandvik LH518B battery-electric loader in northern Sweden. Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and LKAB will partner for a 12-month collaborative trial of the third-generation battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) under the mining company’s project to set a new world[…]

The decarbonisation of Fortescue Metals Group’s (Fortescue) locomotive fleet is ramping up with the arrival of two additional locomotives at Fortescue Future Industries’ (FFI) research and development facility in Perth, Western Australia. The two four-stroke locomotives will undergo further testing on the new fuel system, joining the first two-stroke locomotive which underwent testing earlier this[…]

The first DELKOR Dry Stack Tailings (DST) system to be supplied by TAKRAF Group in Brazil is being commissioned for one of the largest steel producers in the Americas, the company says. The order for the key equipment for the DST system was awarded in January 2019 and was followed shortly by an order being[…]

Metso Outotec says it is introducing the next generation of its CircoredTM process for the direct reduction of iron ore fines using hydrogen as a reducing agent instead of CO produced from fossil fuels. This new process will allow the iron and steel industry to efficiently tackle the decarbonisation challenge, according to the company. The[…]

Austin Engineering Limited has signed a five-year mining products and service supply contract with Rio Tinto Services Ltd, less than a week after the two companies celebrated the manufacture of the 1,000th truck body for Rio’s iron ore division. The contract is for the supply of dump bodies, lightweight trays for ore trucks, heavy machinery[…]

Mineral Resources Ltd (MRL) says it has partnered with Hexagon to develop an autonomous road train solution as part of a plan to unlock “stranded tonnes” in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Part of its mining services infrastructure supply chain solution, the autonomous road trains will form an essential part of the cost-efficient supply chain[…]

CSI Mining Services (CSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mineral Resources Limited (MRL), has been awarded a mining services contract by Roy Hill at its iron ore operation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. This new contract builds on CSI’s long-standing relationship with Roy Hill, which has seen CSI provide crushing and screening works since early[…]

Combining laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with artificial intelligence (AI), Lumine™ is an emerging new sensing platform developed as part of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) High-efficiency Mining program. “Analysing rolling stones on a moving belt is a bumpy and dusty business,” says Daniel Gagnon, Leader of the Systems Integration and Prototypes Team at[…]

After seven years of research and investment of about BRL50 million ($8.9 million), Vale says it has developed a process for producing sand from its production processes with applications in the construction market. After adaptation in the state of Minas Gerais’ iron ore operations, the sandy material, previously disposed in piles and dams, is now[…]