Machinery Trader Mining Blog Archive

Komatsu and Proterra announced a new collaboration to electrify next-generation underground mining machines using Proterra’s battery technology. ...

Proterra and Komatsu announced a new collaboration to electrify next-generation underground mining machines using Proterra’s battery technology. ...

Komatsu has announced new, Tier 4 Final-compliant mining excavators in the large PC1250 series: the short-undercarriage PC1250SP-11 and the longer-undercarriage PC1250LC-11. ...

Swedish mining equipment manufacturer Sandvik has acquired Newtrax, which provides wireless connectivity solutions for monitoring underground mining operations, including worker safety. ...

Komatsu recently announced that its FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) can now operate on private LTE mobile broadband networks. ...

Komatsu’s FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System has moved over 2 billion tons of surface material since launching in 2008. ...

The new off-highway trucks feature 360- and 410-ton payloads and combines the Cat AC electric drive system and the Cat C175-16 diesel engine to provide efficient, dependable power. ...

PT Putra Tongga Samudra, an Indonesian mining company, uses Terex TA400 articulated dump trucks to mine tin in Pemali Sungailiat on Bangka Island. ...

Ditch Witch recently became the exclusive provider of MetaFLO Technologies’ SolidState 2 and SolidState 6 solidification reagents. ...

Volvo recently formed a partnership with the mobile operator Telia Company to begin testing 5G mobile wireless technology on select Volvo CE machines at a test site in Sweden. ...

Caterpillar, one of the world’s top construction and mining equipment manufacturers, just launched the new Cat 24 Motor Grader, a machine specially designed to handle the construction and maintenance of mine roads. ...

In an effort to improve the capabilities of its MineStar technologies, the world-leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, Caterpillar, has partnered with Minetec, an Australian-based company and a subsidiary of the Codan group. ...

The Collahuasi copper mine, the world’s second largest copper mining operation, just added one of Liebherr’s new T 284 mining trucks to its fleet of existing off-highway, rigid dump trucks. ...

The future of mining, and many other industries for that matter, lies in automation. ...

Stockholm, Sweden-based Atlas Copco, a global provider of construction and mining equipment, has completed its acquisition of Cate Drilling Solutions (CDS), a division of the Cate Company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

Caterpillar recently announced that it’s teaming up with FTP Solutions, which is based out of Perth, Western Australia, to create mining technologies specifically focused on monitoring and management that will serve as a part of the Cat MineStar System. ...

Caterpillar has announced it will begin making its Dynamic Gas Blending (DGB) technology available in the company’s 785C Mining Truck beginning in January via a duel fuel dynamic gas blending retrofit kit. ...