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Nornickel has implemented a programme to modernise and upgrade the fleet of mining equipment. The company has purchased unique samples of battery equipment for pilot testing in the conditions of the Zapolyarny mine, the first in Russia. The Zapolyarny mine...

Magna Mining Inc. has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui & Co., Ltd., whereby the two companies will discuss the possibility of Mitsui acquiring a 10 – 12.5% interest in Magna’s Shakespeare Mine, in exchange...

Global steel company NLMK Group has begun to launch its own wireless mobile network (private LTE) at the NLMK Lipetsk integrated steel production site and Stoilensky GOK iron ore mine and beneficiation plant some 350 km away. The Private...

RPMGlobal has released the latest version of its scheduling software, XPAC Solutions, with some of the notable features including disturbance reporting and scheduling, landform surface definition, support for battery trucks, multiple independent calendars, bi-directional Integration with RPM’s Schedule Optimisation...

The technology group, Wärtsilä, will supply a 9.2 MW/8.7 MWh energy storage system to Zenith Energy, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Australia. Zenith sells the electrical power it produces to some of the world’s largest mining companies with...

Rio Tinto has agreed to deploy 35 new 793 zero-emission autonomous haul trucks from Caterpillar at the Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia. To this end, the companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which the duo...

Hexagon’s Mining division has announced an agreement with Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) that would allow Volvo CE off-road mining vehicles to be equipped with Hexagon Level-9 vehicle intervention technology. The award-winning independent and interoperable HxGN MineProtect Vehicle Intervention System...