As one of Australia’s largest independent coal producers, Westfarmers Curragh has made further investments into site safety, training and operational efficiency in the way it inducts, trains and up-skills new and existing operators for its Curragh North expansion. Wesfarmers Curragh will be integrating ThoroughTec’s new CYBERMINE4 surface mining simulators into its training programs to further […]

The Cat® D11, since 1986, has set standards for machine productivity, durability, reliability, safety and operator convenience in high production dozing applications. The new D11T and D11T CD elevate that standard with design refinements that include Enhanced Auto Shift, Dynamic Inclination Monitor, automatic climate control and available automated ripper control. The D11T and D11T CD’s […]

 Sedgman has been awarded a A$123 million Coal Handling and Preparation Plant (CHPP) design and construct contract at Queensland’s Daunia mine. The contract is the second, and larger, contract Sedgman has been awarded for CHPP work at the mine, located in the Bowen Basin. In 2008, Sedgman announced its first contract for the CHPP, a […]

Tancoal Energy and the Tanzanian Port Authority (TPA) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement which will result in the improvement and upgrading of the existing Itungi Port facilities at Lake Malawi in southwest Tanzania, where Tancoal’s product coal will be received for sales offtake. Tancoal is a Joint Venture between Intra Energy Corp (IEC - […]

Runge has launched XERAS Reader. Following the success of XERAS, the financial modelling tool of choice for mining, XERAS Reader enables users that do not have a XERAS licence to access the data calculated in XERAS financial models. XERAS Reader allows a user to access the assumptions, logic and processes used within a XERAS model. […]

LKAB is investing in new technology that will make ore transport up to 20% more energy efficient and help to maximise utilisation of the Ore Railway between Riksgränsen and Luleå in Sweden. The system is called CATO, and the SEK 50 million investment is being implemented in collaboration with Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration). CATO, Computer […]