Sandvik has secured its third-largest battery-electric vehicle order to date, a SEK 650 million (US$62.6 million) equipment purchase from Torex Gold to outfit its fleet at the Media Luna project set to go into commercial production in 2025. Full story.
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Peabody teams are working with federal regulators on a re-entry plan after a fire was discovered at Peabody Energy’s Shoal Creek longwall coal mine outside of Birmingham, Alabama late last week. Full story.
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Canadian producer Lundin Mining confirmed it is acquiring a majority interest (51%) of JX Nippon Mining and Metals subsidiary SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile, operator of the Caserones copper-molybdenum mine in the Atacama Region of Chile. The price tag on the deal is about $950 million, including $800 million in cash consideration and $150 million in deferred cash payable in…
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In industries like mining and construction where heavy machines are the norm, worker safety has the highest priority. Presently, more and more companies are adopting remote control, teleoperation, and automation solutions to keep their workers safe. Staying aligned with their brand-agnostic prowess, HARD-LINE launched Bucket Assist this year at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023. Bucket Assist is an add-on feature to HARD-LINE’s TeleOp…
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Finnish company Epec has launched its Epec MultiTool Simulator (MTS), a virtual testing environment for its control systems. With MultiTool Simulator, the machine and commercial vehicle manufacturers are able to speed up their machine application development process. MTS accelerates the control system SW design significantly by utilizing virtual versions of the actual control system hardware products enabling machine application development…
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OEM Caterpillar selected the stage of ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023 to introduce its new 13-liter engine platform, the high-performance Cat C13D, for off-highway applications. The diesel engine platform was designed to achieve best-in-class power density, torque and fuel efficiency for optimizing the performance of heavy-duty applications. Engineered to Caterpillar’s standards for reliability and productivity, the inline, six-cylinder Cat C13D engine platform will…
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Fortescue Metals Group said first production for its Iron Bridge magnetite project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been pushed to the second half of April from a previously scheduled start in March. Full story.
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Canadian-based technology group Fatigue Science is celebrating a milestone in its growth and the acceptance of its predictive fatigue management system: its implementation at 20 major mine sites. The company said the system, which offers increased worker safety as well as improved productivity, can now be found at Newcrest, Minsur, Newmont, Marcobre and Thiess projects, all of which have joined…
Read MoreChinese mining dump truck company Tonly Heavy Industries and U.S.-based Ecotron have joined forces in a strategic cooperation to develop unmanned driving technology for mining trucks. The two said in a joint statement last week that, with an increasing promotion of smart mining construction, unmanned mining trucks have become a new way of transportation in mining areas. “Ecotron’s expertise in…
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Miner Barrick Gold said it will be adopting Sandvik’s Remote Monitoring Service (RMS) across its entire global fleet – more than 200 trucks, loaders and drills – following success with the system’s implementation at the Loulo-Gounkoto underground complex in Mali, West Africa. Sandvik officials said RMS is already being rolled out at Barrick sites in the U.S., Canada, Central Africa…
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