Category: Equipment & Technology

New South Wales-based Batt Mobile Equipment (BME) has announced the release of its first BIT120, a 20 t Integrated Tool Carrier battery-electric retrofit system. The first machine is being sent to Gold Fields’ St Ives mining operation in Western Australia on a 12-month hire agreement. The company is also in the middle of another two BIT120 builds for Barminco Holdings Pty Ltd, the Perenti-owned underground contract mining company. The BIT120 leverages the learnings from the TRITEV project, which was part of an initiative developed under Project EVmine, with the help… Read More Here

Caterpillar has added several design enhancements to its 7495 HF Electric Rope Shovel models to increase machine reliability. The upgrades are applied to track or crawler frames, swing rack and rollers, as well as propel gearboxes and rotating undercarriage. The upgrades result in an improvement to the total cost of ownership of up to 6% per operating hour, Caterpillar said. For the track roller frame, Caterpillar reengineered the bolt-on design to eliminate the need for casting weld, increasing wear life and requiring no maintenance. Caterpillar also increased the frame thickness… Read More Here

Sandvik has signed an agreement to acquire the mining related business of Schenck Process Group (SP Mining). SP Mining is one of the market leaders in screening, feeding and screening media solutions in the industry. The company will be reported in Stationary Crushing and Screening, a division in Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions (SRP). “I am pleased that we continue to execute on our shift to growth strategy by expanding our core offering in a profitable niche, as well as strengthening the aftermarket share within rock processing. This validates our strategy… Read More Here

Anglo American (LON: AAL) unveiled on Friday its first self-developed green-hydrogen powered truck at the Mogalakwena platinum mine South Africa, where it will eventually replace a fleet of 40 vehicles consuming each nearly a million liters of diesel a year.  The 2,000-kilowat hydrogen-battery hybrid haul truck, which is currently the world’s largest hydrogen-powered vehicle of its kind in operation, can carry a 290-tonne payload. The trucks, part of the company’s nuGen zero emissions haulage initiative, use power from a 140-megawatt solar plant that powers the hydrogen-producing mechanism. The project, expected to be… Read More Here

Finnish mining equipment maker Metso Outotec has been awarded an Є11 million (US$11.5 million) contract for the delivery of advanced electrowinning equipment to a copper cathode production plant in Africa.  Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery includes the supply of basic engineering and equipment for the copper electrowinning plant expansion. Metso Outotec’s offering for copper electrowinning tankhouses comprises pre-engineered solutions, key equipment, and services to ensure superior process performance, increased safety, and minimized environmental impact. Metso Outotec also announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Tesab, a Northern Ireland based company… Read More Here