by Trevor Barratt | Jan 14, 2022 | News
A Tanzanian nickel project has become the subject of the first new bet in Africa by BHP, the world’s biggest mining company, in recent years.Kabanga Nickel, a British-based private company, said that the $40 million injected by BHP would be used “to accelerate the...
by Trevor Barratt | Jan 14, 2022 | News
Heavy rainfall is disrupting south eastern Brazil’s giant iron ore industry, with the world’s No. 2 producer Vale SA among companies to halt operations and regulators dispatched to monitor any impact on tailings dams.Vale partially suspended services on the Estrada de...
by Trevor Barratt | Jan 14, 2022 | News
BHP will transition its South Flank mine to autonomous haulage, less than a year after first ore was produced at the Western Australian site. Autonomous haulage will be phased in across five Autonomous Operation Zones (AOZs), beginning in June 2022, with the company...
by Trevor Barratt | Jan 13, 2022 | News
Rio Tinto has placed an order with Wabtec for four FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives to support operations in Pilbara, Western Australia.The order forms part of Rio Tinto’s strategy to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions at its operations by 50% by 2030.As...
by Trevor Barratt | Jan 13, 2022 | News
Coal-fired plants will account for about 85% of total U.S. power capacity scheduled for retirement this year with natural gas and renewables taking a greater share of the supply, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a recent statement.U.S. power plant...
by Trevor Barratt | Jan 13, 2022 | News
Swedish networking and telecommunications supplier Ericsson and mapping and geolocation data company HERE Technologies teamed up to develop services for the global mining industry. The partnership was announced during the CES technology event in Las Vegas and is...
