Archives: Sustainable mining

Particularly for the underground mining environment, battery-electric machines offer significant operational benefits over their diesel counterparts in terms of exhaust emissions and heat generation. However, battery-electric machine technology is still relatively new to underground mining, and miners need to stay focused on maintaining production targets, Caterpillar says. Battery-electric loaders like the Cat® R1700 XE LHD[…]

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the general availability of new Carbon Analysis capabilities in iTwin Experience to assess and reduce carbon impacts for more sustainable infrastructure – a development that could benefit mining companies. The new Carbon Analysis capabilities enable infrastructure engineers to simplify carbon reporting, easily visualise embodied carbon[…]

The integration of a digital backbone into the explosives, blasting and related processes will continue to result in miners accessing new deposits and potentially developing new mining methods, Orica’s Angus Melbourne and Rajkumar Mathiravedu told IM at last month’s MINExpo 2024 in Las Vegas. Reflecting on a digitalisation journey that started eight years ago, Melbourne[…]

Aspen Technology Inc, a global leader in industrial software, has introduced the AspenTech Microgrid Management System™ (MMS), a solution for customers with heavy electrical power requirements in mining and other asset-intensive industries that manage their own on-site conventional and renewable power generation in orchestration with active load management and energy storage. Based on the company’s[…]

Thiess and leading autonomous haulage solutions firm EACON Mining during MINExpo 2024 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deliver OEM-agnostic autonomous technology and advance decarbonisation in the mining industry. The companies said that the MoU paves the way for us to offer more sustainable, efficient, and safer mining solutions to Thiess clients globally through[…]

The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), the largest government owned steel producer in India, and leading global resources company, BHP, are collaborating to support steelmaking decarbonisation, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the parties. This collaboration is an important step for SAIL and BHP in promoting lower carbon steelmaking technology[…]

Caterpillar® dealer WesTrac has announced that construction of new facilities at the WesTrac Technology Training Centre in Collie, Western Australia, will be complete by November, offering further training opportunities. Speaking during a visit to the facility by the Premier of Western Australia, WesTrac CEO, Jarvas Croome, said the State Government supported the project by providing[…]

SSAB, a global specialised steel company, has awarded AFRY the main engineering partner contract for its fossil-free steel mini-mill project in Luleå, Sweden. AFRY’s assignment includes basic and detail engineering. The services will be provided during 2024-2026. SSAB is undertaking a major project to transform to fossil-free steel production. SSAB is planning to replace the[…]

Dena Nezziddi Development Corporation (DNDC), Fireweed Metals Corp and Solvest Inc have partnered to enhance sustainable, economic resource development at the Macpass project, in the Traditional Territories of the Kaska Dena Nation and the First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun. DNDC, based in Ross River, Yukon, through its wholly owned company, Tu-Lidlini Petroleum LP (TLP),[…]

Freeport-McMoRan is to start using robots from US-based Gecko Robotics to generate the required data to feed machine-learning algorithms, attendees of the Financial Times’ Mining Summit 2024, in London, heard last month. Freeport is looking to bolster copper production from its existing assets in expectation of the world requiring more of the red metal, and[…]