At least 82 people have been killed, two are missing, and more than 120 are injured after a gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in north China’s Shanxi province on 22 May. The incident is being reported as China’s worst mining disaster in more than 15 years. According to the BBC, 247 workers were reportedly on duty when the…
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Rolls-Royce Power Systems announced this month that it is developing a hybrid drive system for haul trucks and will begin field testing it beginning later this year. While the company outlined autumn for its test roll-out, it declined to disclose at what mine the trial would be taking place. The system combines proven mtu Series 4000 engines with a high-performance…
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Clean TeQ Water has been awarded a contract by Broken Hill Operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broken Hill Mines, for a new ATA Tailings Dewatering Plant at the Rasp mine in New South Wales, Australia. The design and construct contract covers the engineering, procurement, manufacture, supply and installation of the ATA plant: a single-train facility sized for 750,000-tonnes-per-annum dry…
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Anglo American has agreed to sell its portfolio of Australian steelmaking coal mines to Dhilmar for cash consideration of up to US$3.875 billion. The transaction follows Peabody’s termination of purchase agreements for these assets last year due to a material adverse change. “This agreement represents another major step in the simplification of our portfolio ahead of completing our merger with…
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Sandvik has inked a deal with coal miner Alpha Metallurgical Resources to establish local manufacturing for its ground support business in the U.S. market. Full story.
Read MoreMining software developer Datamine has made a strategic investment in Australian firm Commit Works, a provider of operational planning and short-interval control software solutions. Commit Works’ suite of products, Datamine said, enables mine sites to digitally manage shift planning, resource allocation, task coordination and production tracking within a single unified platform. Commit Works’ flagship product CiteOps is an enterprise-grade platform…
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Mineral Resources (MinRes) is restarting operations at its wholly owned Bald Hill lithium mine in Western Australia, thanks to more favorable economic conditions. The company said a “significant and sustained recovery” in lithium prices was behind its decision, and that it has undertaken extensive planning in recent months to ensure it can be brought back online safely and efficiently. The…
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Master Drilling North America, part of the Master Drilling Group, successfully commissioned the first remote drilling system in Canada at Agnico Eagle’s Odyssey gold mine in northwestern Quebec. Full story.
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Ivanhoe Electric intends to acquire a purpose-built, Crossover XRE Tunnel Boring Machine and material handling system from The Robbins Company for decline development at its Santa Cruz copper project in Casa Grande, Ariz. Full story.
Read MoreYindjibarndi Energy Corporation (YEC) has closed a deal with Rio Tinto on a power purchase agreement for its Jinbi Solar Project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The 30-year deal marks the first project by YEC to reach this stage, three years after its formation in partnership with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation and ACEN Corporation. Under the terms, YEC will provide…
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