- 1. Fortescue moves closer to zero-emission battery electric truck
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- ... that the miner is developing with Liebherr. PHOTO: WAE Technologies The 1.4-MWh prototype power system sets the pace for ground-breaking innovation in heavy industry, noted Fortescue, ...
- Created on 17 January 2023
- 2. Metso Outotec to deliver key equipment to Australian miners
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- Metso Outotec has been awarded orders from Albemarle Lithium and OZ Minerals for operations in Australia. PHOTO: Metso Outotec Albemarle Lithium has ordered two pyro processing and comminution ...
- Created on 03 January 2023
- 3. Iron Bridge processing plant gets first ore
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- Fortescue has hit a new milestone at its Iron Bridge magnetite project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, marking first ore feed into the processing plant. Photo: Fortescue With ...
- Created on 31 October 2022
- 4. Evolution appoints Conway to CEO, MD seat
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- Evolution Mining has tapped its chief financial officer and finance director Lawrie Conway to serve as its chief executive officer and managing director, effective 1 January 2023. Conway, a 30-year ...
- Created on 06 September 2022
- 5. Thiess secures $700M Iron Bridge contract
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- Thiess has landed an initial three-year contract to deliver mining and maintenance, plus asset management services for Fortescue’s Iron Bridge magnetite project in Western Australia. Revenue ...
- Created on 06 September 2022
- 6. Thiess secures $700M Iron Bridge contract
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- Thiess has landed an initial three-year contract to deliver mining and maintenance, plus asset management services for Fortescue’s Iron Bridge magnetite project in Western Australia. Revenue to ...
- Created on 06 September 2022
- 7. Monadelphous adds A$100M to books with Oyu Tolgoi contract, more
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- Engineer Monadelphous has been retained to erect surface infrastructure at the Oyu Tolgoi underground project in Mongolia’s South Gobi region – just one of multiple new contracts for the firm. With ...
- Created on 16 August 2022
- 8. Hitachi, Rio Tinto unveil world first for digital automation
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- ... powered by a 34-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm solar plant. Source: Hitachi Rail ...
- Created on 10 August 2022
- 9. Ford picks BHP for multi-year nickel supply
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- BHP has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with automaker Ford Motor Company for a multi-year nickel supply from its Nickel West asset in Western Australia. Photo: BHP The miner said ...
- Created on 30 July 2022
- 10. MARKET REPORT: COPPER
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- ... slowdown in global growth poses the greatest downside risk. In the longer term, copper will increasingly benefit from growing demand in the renewable (mainly photovoltaics) and electric vehicle (EV) sectors, ...
- Created on 28 June 2022
- 11. BHP rail team grows with new recruits
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- BHP said that sixty new train drivers are poised to graduate from its Pilbara Rail Academy Traineeship Program, created last year to meet the growing skills shortage in Western Australia. Photo: ...
- Created on 15 June 2022
- 12. Monadelphous picks up A$230M in Oz, PNG deals
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- Five operators across Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have signed off on new contracts and deal extensions with engineering group Monadelphous with a combined price tag of A$230 million. The Perth-based ...
- Created on 21 April 2022
- 13. Anax brings in Gekko for Whim Creek plant design
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- ... design consultant. PHOTO: Anax Metals The plant, which will be designed to process about 320,000 tonnes of pre-concentrate annually, will be fed with primary sorted ore and upgraded fines from the ...
- Created on 02 February 2022
- 14. Wabtec takes Rio Tinto order for battery locos
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- ... to halve its Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions by 2030. The FLXdrive locomotive. Photo: Wabtec Financial details were not released for four of the company’s newest version of the FLXdrive locomotive, ...
- Created on 12 January 2022
- 15. IMPROVING MINING SAFETY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
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- ... events linked to the use of mobile phones while operating machinery. The data uncovered that 30% of the events in those four years happened because operators were fatigued, and site teams suspected ...
- Created on 27 December 2021
- 16. Rio Tinto seeks WA manufacturers for rail cars
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- ... supplier, followed by an ongoing commitment of 10 rail cars per year for the next five years. PHOTO: Rio Tinto “I strongly encourage Western Australian manufacturers to submit an Expression of Interest ...
- Created on 24 December 2021
- 17. Rio Tinto, Austin Engineering ink hardware contract
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- Australian engineer Austin Engineering has signed a new five-year contract deal with miner Rio Tinto for products and services at the operator’s mines. Photo: Austin Engineering The deal, which Austin ...
- Created on 17 December 2021
- 18. Monadelphous grabs BHP, Rio Tinto contracts
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- Engineering group Monadelphous has picked up more than A$110 million in new contracts and extensions from miners BHP and Rio Tinto for multiple scopes of work in Western Australia. First, the company ...
- Created on 23 November 2021
- 19. GR Engineering secures A$31.7 million Bluestone Mines contract
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- ... Renison tin mine. Photo: Metals X “GR Engineering has been pleased to support Bluestone Mines on multiple projects over the last two years and has developed a strong working relationship with management ...
- Created on 04 November 2021
- 20. FMG suspends Solomon Hub ops after fatality
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- An investigation has commenced at Fortescue’s Solmon Hub iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region following a “significant incident,” which has since been discovered to be a ground fall. Photo: ...
- Created on 01 October 2021