Mining

Newmont Corporation announced that more than 96% of votes cast on the acquisition of Newcrest Mining were voted in favour of approval.

BJD Crushers has supplied a major order of its crushing machinery to a new copper mine and smelting plant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sukari has released its revised life of mine plan, which will lead to an increase in gold production and improve margins.

Eurasian Resources Group has signed a preliminary five-year sales agreement with EVelution Energy for the supply of cobalt.

Caterpillar Inc. has completed the in-house validation of Rajant BreadCrumbs® LX5 CA radios, which will enable field trials for hauling.

Marathon Gold has agreed to a contract with ABB to design and commission the process and power control system for its Valentine Gold Project in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Nevada Gold Mines has signed a multi-year agreement with Komatsu to deliver 62 Komatsu 930E-5 haul trucks.

BHP has awarded Metso an order for three high-capacity Nordberg MP Series cone crushers to be installed at its Whaleback mine in Western Australia.

Cummins has unveiled its brand-new European master rebuild centre for high horsepower engines in Krakow, Poland – the first of its kind in Europe.

First Mode has announced the addition of two new electrified retrofits to its suite of decarbonisation solutions for mining and rail haulage.

Barrick is investing almost US$2 billion in an expansion project designed to increase the Lumwana mine’s annual production to an estimated 240 000 t of copper.

GeoMoby is set to work alongside Cisco Systems on underground mining solutions that will extract telemetry to be visualised by GeoMoby.

Metso has opened a completely renovated minerals processing laboratory in Pori, Finland, expanding its ore sample and process testing capability.

Fortune Minerals Ltd and Rio Tinto are collaborating to develop technology that will improve recovery of the critical minerals cobalt and bismuth.

American Pacific Mining Corp. has announced that one drill rig has remained to test the Christmas/Red Creek Target area during the demobilisation of its 2023 mountain drilling programme.