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Nordgold PLC, the internationally diversified gold producer, has announced it has completed Phase 1 of the expansion of mining and processing capacity at its largest mine, the flagship Gross mine in Yakutia, Russia to 18 Mt of ore per year, up from 16 Mt of ore processed in 2020. In addition, Nordgold continues development of[…]

KAZ Minerals has announced that the Bankable Feasibility Study for the Baimskaya copper project in Russia has been completed and approved by the KAZ Minerals Ltd Board of Directors. This represents a significant project milestone enabling the group to progress with the financing and construction of this world-class copper asset. The Baimskaya copper project is[…]

Hitachi has now completed its state of the art mining excavator line-up with the launch of both the 195 t EX2000-7 and at the top end of the size class, the 830 t EX8000-7. These machines join the EX1200-7, EX2600-7, EX3600-7 and EX5600-7. Newly introduced to the mining industry, the EX8000-7 is Hitachi’s largest standard[…]

Uniting innovation with a wealth of industry experience that spans six decades, the United Mining Services Group says it is continuing to grow from strength to strength. With projects throughout southern Africa and as far afield as Brazil and the USA, the organisation draws on considerable industry expertise to offer turnkey solutions to clients in[…]

More news on the Charge On Innovation Challenge as it was formally launched today and founding patrons BHP, Rio Tinto, and Vale outline their reasons for getting behind the venture, an Austmine facilitated “global competition for technology innovators to develop new concepts for large-scale haul truck electrification systems to help significantly cut emissions from surface[…]

Hexagon’s Mining division has been awarded a multi-solution project at Toka Tindung gold mine in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The phased deployment will see Hexagon systems for fleet management, operator alertness, blast monitoring and enterprise analytics implemented by the company’s Indonesian staff at the mine between now and October 2021. Toka Tindung is operated by subsidiaries[…]

Russia’s Udokan Copper LLC says it has started the installation of equipment at the construction site of the project thickening and decantation area where the bulk concentrate, which has undergone atmospheric leaching, will undergo the thickening procedure in special tanks. Thickening is a process of separating solid and liquid fractions based on the natural settling[…]

Underground mining IoT specialist Newtrax Technologies argued in a recent blog article that while there is a lot of buzz around the use of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and advanced analytics in the mining industry, “there still are many misconceptions about how they can play a key role at a stage where there is greater[…]

Sometimes advances are made by smaller mining companies who set out to make changes themselves using their own innovations. Çimnak Co, a subsidiary of Nuh Cement Inc in Turkey, supplies Nuh Cement with 3.7 Mt of marl annually. Diesel-powered machinery is employed at the quarries and the annual diesel fuel consumption is well over 2[…]

On October 29, global investment firm The Carlyle Group announced that it has agreed to acquire Flender GmbH, a market leader in mechanical and electrical drive technology, from Siemens AG for €2 billion. The transaction is still subject to regulatory approvals. Headquartered in Bocholt, Germany, and active across 35 countries including Asia, Flender is a[…]