by Gordon Barratt | Feb 20, 2020 | News
Newmont has approved a $150 million investment in a Caterpillar autonomous haulage system (AHS) at the Boddington gold mine in Western Australia. Boddington will become the world’s first open pit gold mine with an autonomous haul truck fleet when the MineStar Command...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Orica has signed an agreement with interests associated with Grupo Breca (Breca) to acquire all of its shares in Breca Soluciones de Voladura S.A.C., and its associates’ shares in Exsa S.A. (together representing 83.5% of the total shares outstanding in EXSA S.A.),...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Image: Silver Lake Resources Silver Lake Resources has appointed Macmahon’s newly acquired subsidiary GBF Group to deliver further work at the Mount Monger gold operations near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. GBF has been operating at Mount Monger since 2014 and...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has said Australians who want to reduce coal-fired power by 80 per cent by 2050 are ‘dreaming’. Support for coal-fired power among Coalition voters has dropped from 72 to 57 per cent, according to a poll by the Australian...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto PLC said it has submitted plans for a coal-fired power plant for the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia. Rio Tinto has until June 2023 to secure domestically-sourced power for the mine, it said, following agreements signed with the government...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
A global mining company that is building a “mine of tomorrow” in southern Arizona with goals for net-zero emissions and water recycling recently completed a $30-million voluntary clean-up project to protect ground and surface water near the site. South32 Ltd., which...
