Equipment & Technology - Copperbelt Katanga Mining

Solar Lighting Highmast Solution for Steelpoort Community | BEKA Schréder 1

BEKA Schréder is proud to have supplied the LED solar lighting highmast solution for the Steelpoort community in the Limpopo Province. With this new lighting installation, the community benefits from security lighting even during loadshedding. The SOLARFLOOD has been installed on three newly erected highmasts in Steelpoort. The masts have been strategically located in high pedestrian traffic areas, such as schools, community centres, clinics and taverns, which ensures safer transit of the community especially during times affected by loadshedding. The SOLARFLOOD is a South-African designed and manufactured solar lighting highmast… Read More Here

Liebherr exploring low emission engines

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 admin

German-Swiss multinational equipment manufacturer Liebherr is working with US-based engine software firm Tula Technology on the development of optimisation technologies that can reduce heavy machinery emissions. The companies have developed a joint study which showed Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) software can generate reductions of NOX tailpipe emissions by 41% and carbon dioxide (CO2) by 9.5%. The study used Liebherr’s D966, a compact 13.5L 6-cylinder diesel engine. In the next step, Liebherr will consider the integration of the dDSF software into other engines in its portfolio. DDSF uses patented… Read More Here

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Metso Outotec wins India pelletising order

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 admin

Metso Outotec will deliver and deploy its travelling grate pelletising technology to be integrated with a 432 m2 indurating machine located in RPCL’s 3.2 mtpy pellet facility in Sandur, Karnataka. The technology will be used in the near-term to improve the iron content of the ore, maximizing the potential of the existing resources – a long-term goal is to increase the resource base. Traveling grate pelletizing plant is an induration technology for iron ore pellet production for a wide range of plant capacities. Traveling grate sinter plant reduces off-gas volumes and the… Read More Here

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Caterpillar suspends Russian manufacturing

March 12, 2022March 12, 2022 admin

Equipment company Caterpillar has suspended manufacturing at its Russian facilities in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two weeks ago. “Operations in Russia have become recently challenging,” the company said in a March 9 statement. Caterpillar has experienced difficulties due to supply challenges and sanctions imposed by Western nations in protest of the invasion. Caterpillar’s manufacturing site was established in Tosno, near Saint Petersburg, in March 2020. The factory manufactures two models of off-the-road mining trucks, two models of excavators, and components for equipment and machines. Caterpillar also has… Read More Here

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Caterpillar soars as investors hunt for hedges against inflation

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 admin

Caterpillar Inc. shares are headed toward the biggest five-day gain since the pandemic as investors looking for a hedge against inflation flock to the mining- and construction-equipment maker. The company’s stock climbed as much as 6.5% on Tuesday, bringing its 5-day jump to more than 14%. If the gains hold through the close, it would be the largest such move since June 2020. The S&P 500 Index, meanwhile, has fallen 3.1% in the past five sessions. “The Russia/Ukraine crisis has fundamentally altered global commodity markets and is likely to drive… Read More Here

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Metso Outotec launches battery metals AC filter

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 admin

Finnish mining equipment specialist Metso Outotec has released an Activated Carbon (AC) filter specifically designed for use with battery chemicals as part of a recycling process. Metso Outotec said the AC filter was designed in response to the market’s increasing demand for battery metals processing technologies. The filter is used with smaller side streams of copper and other metal-loaded aqueous streams, and is specifically suited for efficient organics removal before the electrowinning and crystallization processes. The AC filter utilizes the design of the Metso Outotec DM filter product family, noted… Read More Here

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Metso Outotec ceases deliveries to Russia

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 admin

Finland-based mining and mineral processing technology supplier Metso Outotec will not deliver any equipment to Russia due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and resulting sanctions against business in Russia. In an update, the company said while the mining industry is “currently not directly targeted,” sanctions against the banking sector and individuals, as well as other restrictions, may have an impact on its customers’ Russia-related business. “Due to the current unclear and changing sanction situation, Metso Outotec has temporarily ceased its deliveries to Russia,” the company said. Metso Outotec noted… Read More Here

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Sandvik introduces larger, upgraded loader

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 admin

Sweden-based mine equipment provider Sandvik has introduced the seven-tonne Toro LH307 loader, which it says offers improved productivity and capacity for underground miners. The company said the Toro LH307 features many design updates and new options for both hardware and software. It can carry more than the previous Sandvik LH307, which had a capacity of six tonnes. The vehicle also has an integrated weighing system (IWS) and traction control, which measures the payload when lifting the boom and the number of buckets lifted during a shift; the traction control system… Read More Here

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Sercel deploys WiNG system at Zambian mine

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 admin

France-based exploration technology company Sercel has said its wireless WiNG land acquisition nodal system has been deployed to a mining exploration programme at the First Quantum Minerals-owned Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia. The company said a 30-kilometre WiNG node array was deployed to acquire passive seismic data over nine months at the mine and the adjacent Solwezi basement dome. It claimed the WiNG wireless nodal acquisition system has a “lightweight form factor and compact design,” which makes it simple to deploy compared to conventional seismometers. By using an ultrasensitive advanced… Read More Here

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Mobility to be first use of green hydrogen in African mines

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 admin

Mobility and heavy-duty vehicles are the first to use green hydrogen on mines and this is expected to be the area of first broad-scale application, including for rail, aviation and shipping fuels, a panel of specialists said during the ‘Why green hydrogen for African mines’ session of the Energy and Mining Summit on February 23. Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) Hydrogen South Africa Infrastructure national centre of competence director Professor Dmitri Bessarabov noted that about half of global greenhouse-gas emissions were produced owing to the activities of about 50 large companies, which include mining and heavy-duty companies, and were mainly the result of heavy-duty transport, energy-intensive processes or energy companies. “It makes… Read More Here