Mining news updates

Sandvik Mining has achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, underscoring its commitment to protecting information assets and ensuring the security, availability, and integrity of mission critical digital business capabilities.

Metso has inaugurated its expanded Service Centre and new Training Centre in Mesa, Arizona, strengthening customer support for customer’s mining operations in the US Southwest.

Canadian company ARLYX Technologies Inc. introduces the first complete, fully electric autonomous solution purpose-built for material handling in underground mines.

Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen, co-CEO of the Nearshore Company, emphasises the importance of alignment between the US and Mexico for mineral security.

Vulcan Energy has announced it has achieved Financial Close as part of the €2.2bn Lionheart Project equity and debt financing arrangements.

Epiroc AB, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has entered into a strategic partnership with SANY Group, a global leader in construction machinery and other heavy equipment.

ABB has established a strategic partnership with Point Laz, a leading developer of mine shaft monitoring technologies, in a joint effort to support and improve the safety and operational efficiency of underground mining operations.

Sandvik have launched AutoMine Aura, a first-of-its-kind underground mining automation platform that has been fully engineered for the future.

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.

Trilogy Metals Inc. has announced that its flagship Arctic Project in northwestern Alaska's Ambler Mining District, being advanced by Ambler Metals LLC – its 50/50 joint venture with South32 Limited – has been officially accepted as a 'Covered Project' on the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council's Federal Permitting Dashboard under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41).