November 13, 2019 Caterpillar moves a billion tonnes autonomously at Fortescue Metals The mine’s fleet of autonomous trucks traveled more than 33.5 million km without a single safety incident.
November 13, 2019 China-backed JV to develop giant Simandou north iron ore deposit in Guinea Guinea’s Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and Singapore’s Winning International Group offered $14 billion to build a mine and related infrastructure.
November 5, 2019 Veolia chosen to advance Mexican lithium project Different from most of the world’s lithium which is produced from hard rock mines in Australia or from brines in South America, the lithium at Sonora is mined from clay.
November 5, 2019 New global CEO for technology innovator Maptek Eduardo Coloma holds a Civil, Industrial and Mining Engineering degree from the University of Antofagasta, Chile and also completed an Executive MBA at Adolfo Ibáñez University in 2008.
October 31, 2019 Petra Diamonds opens tailings to artisanal miners in South Africa Petra believes there is space for artisanal small-scale miners to co-exist with formalized, large-scale operators.
October 30, 2019 Inmarsat, Glass Terra team up on monitoring solution Uniting Inmarsat’s instrument monitoring and Glass Terra’s IoT Lidar solution will enable technicians and audit, store or monitor the structural integrity of tailings dams.
October 30, 2019 Mining’s unlikely heroines – Greta Thunberg and AOC Exponential expansion of global mining is the dirty little secret and glaring blind spot of Green New Deal evangelists and zero-carbon climate warriors
October 30, 2019 Rapid EV adoption could drop Canadian oil demand by 250,000 barrels per day — report Rapid EV adoption could trigger convergence of oil and gas and power and utilities companies in the marketplace, EY said.
October 30, 2019 Europe-led global certification scheme for raw materials expected in 2020 CERA (Certification of Raw Materials) harmonizes standards of ethics, environmental and social impact across every material in every country.
October 29, 2019 ABB commissions six gearless mill drives at Cobre Panama Commercial production of copper now underway at large open pit Cobre Panama mine. Technology leader ABB has deployed six ABB gearless mill drives at […]
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