Komatsu, in collaboration with Swedish miner Boliden, announced the commissioning and start of field trials for the first diesel trolley truck in its new Power Agnostic (PA) series. The 930E truck has been deployed at Boliden’s Aitik copper mine in Gallivare, Sweden. Unveiled at MINExpo 2024, the Power Agnostic 930E haul truck garnered significant attention for its modular, future-forward design.…
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Stawell gold mine, northwest of Melbourne, is no stranger to RCT – Powered by Epiroc; the site has been leveraging its technology to boost safety and productivity for more than 20 years. So, when the site recently purchased two CAT 2900XE (diesel-electric) underground mining loaders to add to their fleet, they chose RCT to automate them with its multi-machine automation…
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Majestic Gold announced the suspension of mining activities at the Denggezhuang (DGZ) underground mine in China, following the death of a worker involved in a hanging wall accident. Yantai City Mujin Mining, a subsidiary of Majestic Gold, operates the mine. Following the incident, the Shandong Provincial Emergency Management Department and Shandong Bureau of the State Mine Safety Supervision Administration ordered…
Read MoreVDG (Van der Graaf), a leading manufacturer of drum motors for belt conveyor applications, appointed Mike Clark to the team as a heavy industry sales representative for the Southeastern United States. Clark brings more than 20 years of technical sales experience across multiple industries, including power transmission, precision 3D measurement and imaging instruments, metrology and industrial machinery. He holds a Bachelor…
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Hexagon has launched its Operator Alertness System (OAS) 7.5, a significant advancement in mining safety technology that sets a new global benchmark. It integrates with Hexagon’s Collision Avoidance System (CAS 10) to deliver valuable insights into vehicle interactions and operator behavior. A successful field deployment of OAS 7.5 at Whitehaven Coal’s operations in Australia demonstrated the robustness and efficiency of…
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MACH Energy Australia’s expansion of its Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales has been halted after a judge found the Independent Planning Commission’s 2022 approval of the project invalid, reported ABC News. The proposed expansion would allow the company to mine an additional 247 million tonnes of coal by 2048. The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group…
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Momentum is building for the 2025 Training Resources Applied to Mining (TRAM) conference, this Nov. 4-6 at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beaver, W.Va. Every year at the conference, MSHA holds the Training Materials Competition. Read more.
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Orla Mining reported that on July 23, an uncontrolled material movement event occurred on the temporary north wall within the open pit at its Camino Rojo oxide mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Read more.
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Global miner Newmont said three Hy-Tech Drilling workers were safely brought to the surface following two fall of ground incidents that occurred in the access way to the underground work area of a Red Chris mine project in British Columbia, Canada, on July 22. Full story.
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Gold miner Evolution Mining said it received promising exploration results from its Mungari and Northparkes operations in Australia during the June 2025 quarter. At Mungari, which is located 20 kilometres west of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, the miner has continued work on opportunities to sustain high-grade underground production at current rates or better. Drilling at Kundana continued to return high-grade…
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