EACON has expanded its deployment of battery-electric autonomous haulage trucks at China Baowu Steel Group’s Taihe iron ore mine in southwest China, adding 12 more vehicles to the fleet. The trucks will operate alongside six SANY electric mining trucks equipped with EACON’s autonomous haulage solution ORCASTRA, which have been running continuously at the site for more than a year. “After…
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Almonty Industries has completed Phase 1 commissioning at its Sangdong tungsten mine in Gangwon Province, South Korea – marking the return to production after more than 30 years. Phase 1 is now producing, with the processing plant designed to handle approximately 640,000 tonnes of ore annually, yielding roughly 2,300 tonnes of tungsten concentrate per year. A planned Phase 2 expansion,…
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Stantec has been selected by St. Augustine Gold & Copper to provide study and engineering services for the Kingking copper-gold project on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Kingking is one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits, with 960 million tonnes of reserves. Stantec will deliver integrated, pit-to-port, sustainable solutions for the estimated US$2.37 billion project. “The St.…
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Australian producer Pantoro Gold will be commencing development of its third producing underground mine at its wholly owned Norseman project in Western Australia in early FY27. Company officials said development will be moving toward the high-grade O’Briens Reef, and that will start after completion of dewatering and rehabilitation of the site’s Bullen Decline. It is expected to produce first ore…
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State-run China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) has widened restrictions on buying new seaborne iron ore cargoes from BHP, as a months-long contract dispute persists, reported Reuters. The iron ore buyer is said to have told several traders to buy fewer BHP flagship grades like Mac fines and Newman fines and lumps, products that have not yet been part of the…
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Australia-based Cohda Wireless has applied its vehicle positioning solution to the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia to drive safety and productivity. The V2X (Vehicle-To-Everything) technology connects vehicles with each other and roadside infrastructure to create a cooperative and intelligent transport environment. “Cohda’s V2X-Locate allows all equipped mobile fleet, fixed plant, and personnel to be reliably tracked in real-time to sub-meter…
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Rendering: Rio Tinto Rio Tinto and the Western Australian Government have entered into a 50:50 joint venture to complete both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Dampier seawater desalination plant. Once fully operational, the plant will deliver 8 gigalitres of desalinated water per year to the West Pilbara Water Supply Scheme, reducing pressure on regional aquifers. The joint venture…
Read MoreThe state of Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India is reportedly planning to open its mineral-rich coastline region to rare earth beach sand mining in a bid to reduce its reliance on Chinese imports. According to a report in one of the country’s news outlets the Daily Excelsior, state-run miner Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) identified numerous heavy mineral-bearing deposits…
Read MoreThe Ministry of Forestry in Indonesia has reportedly frozen some 80 mining environmental permits across the country as part of a compliance review. According to Indonesia Business Report, the agency is evaluating environmental compliance for about 1,358 coal and nickel extraction units across 14 provinces considered, as it said, to be environmentally critical. As of February 25, 250 units had…
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Ohio-headquartered Kodiak Chemical has signed a strategic joint venture with Blackrock Mining Solutions to serve the energy, mining, and primary metal sectors in Australia.
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