Mining

The US National Mining Association’s CORESafety® participating companies complete 2017 with zero fatalities.

GFG Alliance agrees to purchase Glencore’s Tahmoor metallurgical coal mine in New South Wales, Australia.

Gruyere JV sign a five-year, AUS$400 million mining services contract with Downer EDI Ltd for the Gruyere gold project.

Autonomous Solutions Inc. collaborates with Enaex to expand its MOBIUS software for mining platforms to include blasting functionality.

Caterpillar and Rio Tinto to retrofit Cat trucks for autonomous operation at Marandoo iron ore mine in Australia.

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change has announced the federal Cabinet’s approval of the Murray River mining project in British Columbia, following a federal environmental assessment.

CSA Global and Whittle Consulting partner together offer Integrated Strategic Planning services in and around Europe and West Africa.

Wenco International Mining Systems and Hitachi Construction Machinery complete successful trial of autonomous mine haul trucking programme.

ABB releases a new water-cooled marine motor designed for general industry applications.

ExxonMobil’s Mobil SHC™ 630 saves US mining company more than US$2.1 million annually and improved improve haul truck fuel economy by 5.5%.

Tropicana partners AngloGold Ashanti and Independence Group have committed to increasing production at Long Island gold mine in Western Australia.

DMT receives funding for further development of the awarded innovation project from EIT RawMaterials.

Tanga Resources enters into binding option agreement to acquire 100% of the issues shares of Coldstone Investments to earn in on the Joumbira zinc project in Namibia.

B2Gold achieves commercial production at the Fekola mine in Mali one month ahead of schedule.

Macmahon Holdings receives letter of award for its provision of open pit contract mining services at the Mount Morgans Gold Mine in Western Australia.