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Perenti has announced that its underground mining business, Barminco, has signed a contract extension with IGO Ltd to continue mining at the Nova underground nickel mine in the Fraser Range of Western Australia. Barminco’s involvement at the Nova mine commenced in early 2015 when it was a greenfield site. This contract extension is worth A$157[…]

NRW Holdings Limited’s NRW Civil & Mining business has been awarded a development contract for BHP at the Jimblebar mine in the east Pilbara (some 39 km east of Newman). The scope of the contract includes various civil, building, mechanical and electrical works to support sustainable production at Jimblebar. The project will include bulk earthworks[…]

Nokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, and Vale, the Brazil-based global mining company, have announced that they are signing a research agreement to implement a cognitive monitoring network service, enabling performance, reliability and safety enhancement of mining operations. The agreement builds on the already existing long-standing relationship at Vale’s autonomous iron-ore mine in Carajás, Brazil.[…]

FLANDERS has hosted a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of its mining industry focused Innovation, Technology, and Training Center in Carmel, Indiana. The centre will serve as the hub for FLANDERS Advanced Development and Autonomous Solutions teams, providing a cutting-edge facility for customer solution collaboration and developing the workforce of the future. The FLANDERS[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing the Sandvik DD212i, its first intelligent i-series narrow vein drill and, it says, the industry’s most advanced underground drill of its type. The Sandvik DD212i is a compact single-boom jumbo with a new carrier and updated design, offering improved productivity, drilling accuracy, intelligence, versatility and easy integration into[…]

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[…]

ABB has signed a contract for a mine hoists delivery to Eti Bakır, Türkiye’s largest producer of copper, in a joint effort to contribute to the mining industry’s ongoing sustainable transformation. The two organisations have signed an agreement which will see ABB provide two hoists to the new underground copper mine. Located in the Maden[…]

Meeka Metals Limited has confirmed that a 750 kW ball mill has been safely and effectively dismantled, loaded onto a transport float and is en-route to its Murchison gold project, in Western Australia. The news comes alongside the appointment of MACA Interquip Mintrex (MIQM) to execute the expansion and re-start work with the carbon-in-leach processing[…]

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[…]