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Caterpillar Inc says it has successfully demonstrated its first battery electric prototype underground mining truck, growing its portfolio of battery electric and semi-autonomous technology for underground mining applications. The demo was at its Burnie Proving Ground in Tasmania, Australia. The demonstration for Newmont and other industry leaders comes on the heels of the 793 battery electric[…]

AtkinsRéalis, a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world, has been appointed as the integrated delivery partner by Rio Tinto for the Simandou mining project in the Republic of Guinea. In the role of integrated delivery partner, AtkinsRéalis’ global and multi-disciplinary Minerals & Metals team will provide project and[…]

Sat.One has announced it has won the race to successfully deploy the first ever EutelSat OneWeb Enterprise Low Earth Orbit (LEO) service in the Southern Hemisphere. As part of a three-year deal, Sat.One in partnership with EutelSat OneWeb, has deployed an Enterprise LEO broadband service to Hitachi’s Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) Proof of Concept (PoC) site[…]

Macmahon Holdings Ltd has executed a binding agreement to acquire the key contracts of the Pit n Portal (PnP) underground services business from Emeco Holdings Ltd. Macmahon and Emeco have concurrently entered a strategic rental partnership where Emeco is the preferred supplier of rental equipment to Macmahon in Australia for applications in surface mining, underground mining[…]

Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, has announced the establishment of a regional hub in Kazakhstan, expanding its presence in Central Asia. Staffed by a dedicated local team, the strategic move demonstrates Seequent’s commitment to providing cutting-edge subsurface software solutions to the rapidly growing local market and wider Central Asia region, it says. Seequent shared the[…]

Epiroc says it has won a large order from Eti Bakir for underground mining equipment that will be used at a new copper mine in Türkiye. Eti Bakir, Türkiye’s largest mining company and a long-time customer of Epiroc, has ordered a fleet of face drilling rigs, production drilling rigs, mine trucks and loaders. The machines[…]

Orezone Gold Corp has awarded Metso an order for an 18 MW SAG mill for the Phase II Expansion at its Bomboré gold mine in Burkina Faso. Christoph Hoetzel, SVP, Grinding business line at Metso, said: “The Premier™ SAG mill to be delivered to Bomboré is part of our Planet Positive offering thanks to its[…]

Scotland-based Munro Electric Vehicles has signed an exclusive partnership with Jakob Mining Vehicles (JMV), in an agreement to provide them with 900 mining specific vehicles over the next five years. The vehicles build upon the Munro Series-M platform and have been specifically designed to meet the mining industry’s demanding needs. This will enable JMV to electrify[…]

Global miner Glencore has announced that it has joined Komatsu’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance, a collaborative effort focused on working towards the development, testing and deployment of zero-emission mining equipment and solutions. Alliance members have specifically been working to advance Komatsu’s power agnostic truck concept for a haulage vehicle that can run on a variety of[…]

A milestone has been reached to deliver a domestic supply of lithium in the UK, with three companies from the north of England – Northern Lithium, Evove and Sheers – having signed an agreement aimed at delivering the UK’s first commercial-scale direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant that combines UK-developed technology, UK sourced lithium-bearing saline brines[…]