Archives: Sustainable mining

Draslovka a.s. subsidiary Encore Minerals, a company established with the specific aim of progressing waste to value opportunities, has entered into an agreement with Poseidon Nickel to retreat and monetise gold and nickel tailings in Western Australia. Draslovka’s proprietary Glycine Leaching Technology (GLT), comprising the GlyCat™ process for precious metals and GlyLeach™ process for base[…]

Cosmic rays and hyperspectral imaging are central features in two mining technology projects backed by the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, with major implications for safety and access to strategically important materials, the centre says. mDetect is a Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia) spinout specialising in astrophysics research into muons, a type of subatomic particle that results[…]

Thiess says it has acquired significant stakes in two Australian businesses, LAAMP and Mechatronix, as part of its plans to expand its offering as a global services provider, outside of the traditional mining operations. Both companies have been working with Thiess for several years to manage and grow two of the mining services provider’s key[…]

Energy Vault Holdings Inc, a leader in sustainable grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Carbosulcis S.p.A., a coal mining company owned by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, have announced their plans to develop a 100 MW hybrid gravity energy storage system, a solution designed by Energy Vault for underground mines, pairing modular gravity storage and batteries.[…]

The RIINO system, a zero-emission material movement solution leveraging technology influences from monorails, subway systems and the mechanised raise climber, is now officially in the engineering and development stage, with an expanded consortium advancing the technology’s development. Having completed an in-depth, four-month scoping study backed by Agnico Eagle Mines and Vale Base Metals, utilising a[…]

Mining3 and Low Emission Technology Australia (LETA) have commenced a project that, they say, will explore the potential of emerging catalytic technology to reduce methane emissions from Australian mine sites, marking a step forward in sustainable resource extraction. Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted from industries including agriculture, natural gas and mining. Methane has a[…]

Mineral Resources (MinRes) has awarded a five-year contract to 100% Indigenous-owned business Coolingah for the dry hire of three coaches to service MinRes’ Wodgina lithium mine in the Pilbara of Western Australia. A fleet of 57-seat coaches arrived at Wodgina during the recent NAIDOC Week and will be used to transfer MinRes’ workforce across the[…]

SGS, a leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, has announced a new contract to open and operate a 2,025 sq.m on-site geochemistry laboratory at the North Mara mine, in Tanzania, owned by Barrick Gold. The state-of-the-art laboratory will be equipped to provide sample preparation, analytical testing and fire assay, using PhotonAssay™ technology, an environmentally[…]

The ICMM has released a report that benchmarks the 2023 safety performance of its members, highlighting that 36 people from ICMM company members lost their lives at work in 2023. ICMM members are constantly looking for ways to make their operations safer, to eliminate fatalities towards a goal of zero harm, the ICMM says. To[…]

The first Sandvik LH518iB battery-electric loader and supporting batteries have arrived at the McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan, Canada, project owner Foran Mining has reported. Back in 2022, Sandvik announced it would supply a fleet of 20 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), including trucks, loaders and drills, for the project in what was its biggest battery-electric vehicle[…]