Mining

Dyno Nobel and TesMan, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership focused on accelerating innovation – driving safer and smarter underground mining.

Fran van der Berg and Ashwini Khunte, Martin Engineering, offer their perspectives on how the transformation of the gender imbalance in mining is unfolding.

The global leader in bulk material handling solutions, Martin Engineering, has announced the acquisition of ConveyorTech Pty Ltd (CVT) of Australia, expanding its worldwide portfolio of conveyor belt cleaners and components.

An Australian listed company, Papyrus Australia Limited has developed a proprietary technology that is seeing it supply biodegradable blast collars made from banana plantation waste to the Australian mining sector.

MaxMine have announced the successful deployment of a production-grade machine learning (ML) system for load and dump classification across its Australian mining customers, including Glencore, NRW Holdings, and Macmahon.

Rio Tinto has celebrated the shipment of 8 billion t of iron ore to global markets from the Pilbara region, 60 years after the company’s first shipment set sail from Western Australia for Japan.

Sandvik has won a further order of mining equipment from Canadian gold miner, Aris Mining, to support its Segovia Operations located in Antioquia, Colombia.

Metso has been awarded orders for the delivery of two horizontal grinding mills to Emerald Resources NL for the Dingo Range Gold Project in Western Australia and the Memot Gold Project in Cambodia.

Fulcrum Metals plc, a company pioneering the use of innovative cyanide-free technologies to recover precious and critical metals from mine waste and support site remediation, announces that it has signed agreements to acquire surface rights at the Teck Hughes tailings project.

Epiroc is now launching a comprehensive set of digital mine planning solutions globally to further strengthen mining companies’ operations.

Codelco, the University of Chile, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that lays the foundation for creating the Institute of Complex Mining.

Dr Uwe König, Global Mining Segment Manager at Malvern Panalytical, identifies seven trends that are reshaping mining operations in 2026, and at their core lies a common thread: automation, real-time measurement, and digitalisation.

Fugitive dust at mining sites causes equipment damage, downtime, health risks, and regulatory issues. Poor maintenance increases operational costs, while effective dust control improves safety, compliance and overall operational performance.

Terrafame, a leading European producer of critical raw materials, has launched a pre-feasibility study to assess the recovery of scandium from its existing production process.

This article examines thermal management challenges in deep mining operations, exploring how extreme heat affects worker safety and equipment reliability while highlighting modern solutions like computational modelling and regulatory compliance.