Mining equipment news

Komatsu is acquiring certain assets of Matfield Machining to support the growth of its national field service teams, as part of its efforts to enhance its offerings for North American mining customers.

Dave Mueller, Martin Engineering, explains how a sealed conveyor environment improves workplace safety and how skirting can reduce labour costs and overall cost of operation.

Metso has modernised its pilot facility at the Metso Research Center in Pori, Finland, with expanded capabilities for lithium hydroxide and other battery chemicals process testing.

Caterpillar has announced its new Cat 785D Water Solutions Truck, which infuses technology with the Cat water delivery system to offer a smarter way to maintain haul roads.

Metso has expanded its manufacturing capacity of mobile track-mounted crushing and screening equipment in Alwar, India, by opening new manufacturing facilities.

Together with Luleå University of Technology, and the technology company Algoryx, Epiroc is initiating the ReNAM project to push the development of autonomous mining.

Gold Fields has begun using a comprehensive digital platform from ABB to coordinate production scheduling and execution across its Granny Smith Mine in Western Australia.

Mine Vision Systems has appointed Barry Henderson, former CEO of Maptek, and Greg Mulholland, founder and CEO of Citrine Informatics, to its advisory board.

Liontown has awarded Monadelphous the ‘wet plant structural, mechanical, and piping’ and ‘electrical and instrumentation’ contracts for its Kathleen Valley Lithium Project.

Rail-Veyor Technologies Global Inc. has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mining Plus, a mining technical consultancy.