Archives: Steel and iron ore

TNG Ltd has appointed a subsidiary of engineering and construction company, Clough, to work with TNG’s project development team and the SMS Group on its flagship Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia. TNG announced in September that it had decided to progress development of the project with a fully-integrated mining and[…]

United States Steel Corporation will be the first operator globally of Komatsu Mining’s new ZR122 blasthole drill at their Minntac Minnesota Ore Operations in Mt Iron, Minnesota. Komatsu states: “Their commitment was recognised at MINExpo and we’re excited to continue our partnership with US Steel in their operations.” Engineered for high productivity drilling in tough[…]

Mammoet has helped BHP deliver on its goals for the South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara of Western Australia, using its expertise to transport over 1,000 oversized items to site safely and on time. These components needed to be transported to site safely, on schedule and in the right sequence. With a cumulative[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has announced what it says is an industry-leading target to achieve net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2040, addressing emissions across Fortescue’s entire global value chain, including crude steel manufacturing which accounts for 98% of the company’s Scope 3 emissions. Fortescue’s approach to reducing Scope 3 emissions is to develop projects and[…]

Japanese integrated trading and investment business Marubeni Corporation has joined the Charge On Innovation Challenge, the global competition for technology innovators seeking to electrify mining truck fleets, it says as “a prospective investor.” Marubeni has major copper and iron ore mining stakes – including 30% in each of Antofagasta PLC’s Antucoya and Centinela plus 15%[…]

K2fly Ltd says Rio Tinto has signed a five-year contract for its Ground Disturbance solution, with the miner planning to roll it out across its iron ore operations in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The contract will generate annual recurring revenue of A$620,000 ($450,676) over the initial five-year term, the ASX-listed company says. The addition[…]

Metso Outotec has introduced a magnetic separators portfolio that, it says, caters to a wide variety of applications with the separators’ flexible modular design enabling superior separation selectivity and improved recovery of fine and ultra-fine particles. Metso Outotec High Gradient Magnetic Separators are designed to recover weakly magnetic material from non-magnetic matter and can be[…]

Rio Tinto says it is supporting iron ore rail car manufacturing in Western Australia with a commitment to use local suppliers to build ore rail cars for its Pilbara mining operations. A tender will soon be released to the local market for an initial purchase of 50 ore rail cars, followed by an ongoing commitment[…]

Engineering Dobersek in Germany and Severniy Mining and Processing (SevGOK) in Ukraine have selected Metso Outotec’s mill discharge pumps for Severniy’s greenfield process waste thickening plant, the OEM says. Metso Outotec’s pumps will be used to pump the iron ore concentrate plant’s waste sludge into the settling ponds from the thickeners. The 22 pumps to[…]

Metso Outotec says it is launching leading-edge digital solutions to ensure the optimal operation and maintenance of iron ore pelletising plants over the entire plant life cycle. Leveraging the company’s experience as the original inventor of the pelletising process, Metso Outotec says it has developed a suite of solutions that will improve process performance, production[…]