Chinese mining news

Sandvik has received a large mining equipment order from JCHX Mining Management to be used in the Kamoa-Kakula copper and Kamoya copper and cobalt mines.

Clayton Equipment has secured a contract to supply a fleet of 12 hybrid locomotives to the Shougang Group, the parent company for an iron ore mining operation at Macheng Mine in China.

Vale is set to become the first mining company, among the big players in the industry, to test 100% electric 72 t trucks.

Epiroc will relocate the production and development of drill rigs for surface construction from Japan to its facility in Nanjing, China.

ALLU has launched the NEW ALLU TRANSFORMER DC Series for the Chinese market.

ALLU has appointed Pierre-Emmanuel Bujes as its new Operations Director for China.

If 2021 was the year of rebound for metals and mining commodities, then 2022 is shaping as the year of rebalance, says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business.

A recent analysis from Rystad Energy has shown that EV producers and suppliers could be facing a major cost headache starting this year as battery-grade lithium prices skyrocket.

MineHub Technologies Inc. has announced that the MineHub platform has been used by BHP and China Minmetals in the first cross-border copper concentrate trial shipment processed on blockchain technology.

Western weaknesses in lithium-ion supply chains will slow electric vehicle adoption and demonstrate China’s dominance of the EV market, says GlobalData.