Archives: Sustainable mining

Terrafame’s bio heap leach nickel mine in Sotkamo has entered into an agreement with dealer Rotator Oy to renew the existing Hitachi mining equipment during 2022-2025. The agreement between Terrafame and Rotator includes two 369 t Hitachi EX3600-7 excavators and seven 181 t payload EH3500AC-3 sining trucks. In addition, the agreement includes an option to[…]

Freeport McMoRan has announced that its Miami mine & smelting operation in Arizona and El Paso refinery in Texas recently earned the distinguished TheCopperMark designation. They join its Cerro Verde mine in Peru, El Abra mine in Chile and Atlantic Copper smelter and refinery in Spain which last year received the designation that FCX says[…]

Capstone Mining has brought a second Caterpillar 994K wheel loader to its Pinto Valley operation in Arizona, USA, as it looks to reduce its emissions and improve its operating cost base at the copper mine. Last year, the mine added to its fleet a Cat 994K loader, which, the company says, burns circa-30 less gallons[…]

Mobile power provider Aggreko says it is making the transition from being a pure power provider to a long-term mining project investor that is helping miners navigate the energy transition. Aggreko has built an almost 60-year-long reputation for powering many sectors around the globe. It has also supplied power and underground cooling to the mining[…]

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the potential expansion of Golden Star Resources’ Wassa gold mine in Ghana has flagged the potential for applying alternative underground haulage methods, and autonomous and battery-electric equipment at the operation. The PEA provides an assessment of the development of the Southern Extension of Wassa and the increase in mining[…]

Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc (DST) has entered into a Technology Framework Agreement with Hatch Ltd for the utilisation of DST’s arsenic stabilisation technology, known as the GlassLock Process™, in combination with Hatch’s fluid bed roasting and arsenic dry scrubbing technologies, on gold and arsenopyrite projects. “We are very pleased to announce this collaboration agreement with[…]

MacLean Engineering has become renowned for its battery-electric equipment in the last four-to-five years, having announced its electrified plans at MINExpo 2016, and steadily upped its offering in line with industry demand. Yet, it is not the only company in its field backing battery-powered production support developments underground. Recognising the same trend that led to[…]

Vimson Group and Newlab’s Prospect Mining Studio announced today a half million dollar investment in its cohort member company CyanoGuard, the Switzerland-based chemtech startup shaping the future of cyanide detection for the gold mining industry. The investment caps the company’s extended seed round – with the first closing  in April 2020 – at more than[…]

Polymetal recorded a strong set of financials in 2020, with its revenue, adjusted EBITDA and net earnings metrics all benefitting from higher production volumes and commodity prices. Revenue increased by 28% year-on-year to $2.87 billion, adjusted EBITDA rose 57% to $1.69 billion and net earnings hit a record $1.09 billion in 2020. The company’s 2020[…]

Australia’s minerals industry is to introduce the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) system to, the Minerals Council of Australia says, further improve site-level performance through regular and transparent reporting on safety, environmental and social indicators, including partnerships with First Nations landholders and communities. Adopting TSM – implemented worldwide among key mining nations[…]