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In its Q4 2017 report, Woodside Energy stated that its 90% held Pluto LNG joint venture had approved development of a LNG truck-loading facility on the Burrup Peninsula. The facility will extend existing infrastructure from the onshore processing facility “to provide LNG for distribution within Western Australia. Potential applications include remote power generation and heavy[…]

Anglo American announces that it has entered into a Heads of Agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation in relation to Mitsubishi’s proposed acquisition of a 21.9% equity interest in Anglo American Quellaveco SA (AAQSA), which owns the Quellaveco copper project in Peru, for a total consideration of $600 million. Mitsubishi already holds an 18.1% interest in AAQSA[…]

Hydro-Québec (HQ) and Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) are pleased to announce the signing of a license and research and development agreements with respect to the processing of graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries. This collaboration will hopefully enable NMG to commercialise battery material technologies developed by HQ over the past 30 years, helping to position Québec[…]

Nominations are being accepted for the best innovators in the mining industry to be inducted into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame during the SME Annual Conference in Denver next year. The gala dinner at which inductees will be recognised will be on the evening of February 25 at The Brown Palace Hotel. Nominations[…]

Endomines has started active development of the Idaho, USA gold assets acquired in February 2018. Based on the recent technical and permitting work, the previously announced target of commencing production at the Friday mine, as the first of five deposits, within one year from the acquisition remains intact. Endomines has recruited a core team of[…]

Conveyor belt components such as spillage control solutions, cleaners, trackers and security systems have always been, since 1964, the first priority of Technicgum Polymères. The company is lead by Jérôme Davidts, who took over the business as CEO in 2008 after several years spent in the company. The most common problems were identified during initial[…]

Deutsche Lithium, 50% owned by Bacanora, the London and Canadian listed lithium company, has been granted an exploration licence covering 295 ha of the previously mined Falkenhain lithium deposit in southern Saxony, Germany. Falkenhain, which is located within 5 km of Bacanora’s 50% owned Zinnwald lithium project, has the potential to increase the life time[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article showcases the new Liebherr T 236 100 t truck, which is the first 100 t mining truck which combines an oil immersed, 4 corner wet braking system with a diesel electric drive system. The design gives operators greater adaptability and flexibility in their mine in that to some extent its[…]

Perrone Robotics (PRI) has a new agreement with Liebherr to support autonomous development for Liebherr mining trucks. PRI is currently working with Liebherr’s Mining Group in Newport News to integrate PRI’s MAX™ platform into their autonomy kit.  MAX will support certain functionality within Liebherr’s autonomy kit enabling the truck to perform autonomous haulage at mining[…]

WOMBATT has commercialised iVOICE, a voice based driver fatigue prediction and detection system invented by the Centre for Space Medicine at University College London. A combination of voice analysis and machine learning originally developed to track the health of astronauts on long term space missions has been shown to have acquired this very human capability.[…]