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Power Nickel, one of Canada’s leading metal exploration companies, has expanded its use of Fleet Space’s end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, to drive new geological understanding of its projects along Chile’s Atacama Fault System. With deployments across Power Nickel’s Zulema, Palo Negro and Tierra de Oro projects, ExoSphere identified significant faulting in all three areas[…]

During a recent business forum at the ‘Central Asia plus Japan Dialogue,’ Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), the diversified natural resources group headquartered in Luxembourg, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with Japan’s Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM), the global producer of construction and mining equipment, and its official distributor in Central Asia, Eurasian Machinery LLP. Hitachi[…]

Arch Resources, Inc and CONSOL Energy Inc have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals to create Core Natural Resources, a premier North American natural resource company focused on global markets. Core Natural Resources will be a leading producer and exporter of high-quality, low-cost coals[…]

BHP has taken another important step on its operational decarbonisation journey with the first electric excavator in BHP’s fleet now operational at its Yandi iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Instead of a diesel engine, the R 9400 E Liebherr electric excavator has an electric motor, with power fed to the machine by a[…]

FLSmidth says it is to deliver concentrate and tailings filters to South32’s Hermosa critical minerals project in the US. This new FLSmidth order will contribute to an increased supply of critical minerals such as zinc and manganese supporting the continued electrification of society. The mine operation is designed to minimise its environmental impact, and the equipment[…]

St Barbara Ltd says that results of the current testwork program have allowed the early selection of the Saleable Concentrate Flowsheet option for the Simberi Sulphides Expansion, three months ahead of schedule. The expansion project has the potential to extend the life of mine by at least 10 years. The Simberi Operations consist of an[…]

In its just released 2024 Sustainability Report, mining contracting major Macmahon laid out its commitment to minimising its impacts on the environment by collaborating with clients to reduce, recycle, and rehabilitate, as well as promoting environmental and sustainability awareness and identifying energy efficient and carbon reduction opportunities. In FY24, Macmahon established its first three- year ESG roadmap[…]

Powering through the toughest materials, the Cat® 6020 Hydraulic Mining Shovel meets the mining industry’s need for durable, reliable and highly efficient digging performance. To align with the rest of the Cat hydraulic mining shovel lineup, the model nomenclature has been updated from the Cat 6020B to the 6020. Today’s 6020 shovel Caterpillar says offers[…]

Richard Roberts, Editorial Director at Beacon Events, recently interviewed some key figures at Hexagon ahead of its participation at the IMARC event in Sydney in October 2024. Wendy Hodgetts, Safety Manager at the Rosebery zinc-copper mine in western Tasmania, gave a warts-and-all deep dive on the historic mine’s introduction of a state-of-the-art operator alertness system[…]

Weir Group PLC has been awarded a contract to provide industry-leading energy efficient, sustainable solutions to the Reko Diq copper-gold project, the 50% owned greenfield development by Barrick Gold Corporation. The Tier 1 copper project is located in the Chagai district of Balochistan in Pakistan and is targeting first production in 2028 with an estimated[…]