Earthmoving and utility equipment manufacturer Komatsu’s new Kprime Tooth System from wear solutions specialists Hensley Industries is now available as standard on new Komatsu excavators. The... 

Construction equipment supplier HPE Africa says its new crawler excavator series is suited to earthmoving applications in South Africa’s mining and construction environments.  The R210 Smart Plus... 

With excavator owners and operators always looking for more productive, reliable and safer tooth systems for their buckets, Kprime, a new generation of ground engaging tools now offers significant... 

Construction equipment supplier HPE Africa has supplied various companies with earthmoving equipment for mining applications across the country in recent months. The equipment includes Hyundai... 

Doosan’s excavators and wheel loaders are in demand at various mining operations, including the Doosan DX300 and DX520 excavators, which are currently used for material processing and handling at a... 

Mangoola Coal Operations plans to establish a new opencut mining area to the north of the existing Mangoola mine to maintain its yearly extraction rate of 13.5-million tonnes. 

The mining industry needs to employ more skilled workers with higher qualifications to progress and modernise, which will, in turn, enable the industry to operate safer and more efficiently, says... 

Original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) Bell Equipment, which through its Southern African distribution network is the exclusive distributor of Japanese OEM Kobelco excavators in Southern Africa, has... 

Iron-ore prices in Asia pushed higher on Monday as strengthening global steel demand buoyed sentiment, and as Chinese steel mills continued to ramp up output despite the government's scrutiny of... 

Technological advancement in the mining sector is rapidly developing and solutions to address mining productivity challenges and improve efficiencies are continuously being developed.... 

Although mining terrain, minerals and the earth’s surface materials may remain largely the same for years to come, the development in the technology used to extract these minerals has changed... 

An elite team is set to tackle the monumental challenge of freeing the massive container vessel that’s blocking the Suez Canal, as a backlog of ships continued to build up for a third day in what... 

Heavy-duty machines and services company Barloworld Equipment (BWE) Mining has extended its mining solutions offering with the introduction of the Caterpillar MD6200 rotary blasthole drill. “The... 

Demolition contractor Jet Demolition is wrapping up a petrochemical demolition project valued at about R20-million. Jet Demolition project manager André Botes tells Engineering News that the... 

Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is launching its next generation of excavators, the 374 and 395 hydraulic excavators, into Southern Africa in 2021. “In 2018, Cat introduced its medium-sized... 

Construction equipment supplier HPE Africa has launched its HX Series excavators, which will be available in April nationwide. HPE Africa believes that the series will be well suited to most... 

Leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products in... 

Coal exploration and mining company Canyon Coal’s De Wittekrans greenfield project, in Mpumalanga, South Africa, will take place in two phases. Phase 1 – the opencast operation – has an... 

A prefeasibility study has successfully outlined mining and processing plans, a target production rate, estimates for capital and operating costs and infrastructure requirements to support the... 

Construction contractor Icon Group is conducting bulk earthworks and demolitions in the Johannesburg central business district as part of a construction project aimed at developing a new Title... 

While 2021 is expected to be just as challenging as 2020, Condra Cranes is confident of the prospects for the year ahead after emerging from the past year strong. The company reported steady sales... 

2020 will be remembered as a difficult year, particularly by many in South African engineering manufacturing. But there were companies that came through it strongly. One of these was Condra, which... 

Bullion miner Nordgold has successfully increased the processing capacity of its Taborny mine, in Yakutia by 50%, the company announced on Thursday. The capacity was increased from 5-million... 

Fenix Resources has awarded a contract t for drill and blast, mining and crushing, and screening activities at the project. 

OEM equipment supplier Maximum Equipment started operations in 1995 with the sales and marketing of quality used equipment. Over the years, the company has expanded into the sales and hire of... 

Australian mining group National Group, through its earthmoving equipment supplier subsidiary National Plant & Equipment, continues to be a key supplier to the mining industry, including its... 

Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has advised that it will conduct a ten-day shutdown on the iron-ore rail corridor from October 16. During this time, the State-owned utility’s scope of maintenance... 

Trial mining operations at rare earth producer Rainbow Rare Earths’ Gakara operation, in Burundi, continue to strengthen, with concentrate production having increased to an average of 59.9 t a... 

RWE has received 45 bids for one of its giant bucket-wheel excavators used in mining that it put up for sale in an online auction earlier this year, Germany's largest power producer has said. The... 

Fenix Resources has secured approvals from the Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety for the project management plan and clearing permit for the project. 

Fenix Resources has approved the development of the project. 

Strike Resources has reported that the project has additional upside potential. 

Exploration pitting works at Xtract Resources’ Eureka copper/gold deposit, in Zambia, has confirmed earlier modelling of a strike extension to the northwest. Earlier three-dimensional modelling on... 

Heavy equipment simulator training solutions provider Simformotion has announced the release of the new Cat Simulators System, called SimLite Excavator. The new compact and portable system allows... 

Platinum group metals (PGMs) strata present some of the most unforgiving digging conditions imaginable for earthmoving equipment attachments, says earthmoving mining equipment and attachments... 

Diversified Russian gold producer Nordgold has invested about $15-million in fleet maintenance and new vehicle purchases for its Taborny gold mine in Yakutia, Russia. Two hauling trucks, an... 

Initial project activities are under way at the R250-million cash-funded East Manganese project in Hotazel, Northern Cape, where the hot sun will be harvested to provide solar power to the mine’s... 

Havilah Resources is investigating the feasibility of a gold-only startup operation at the Kalkaroo copper/gold project. 

Carnaby Resources has sold the historical Tick Hill tailings stockpile for A$6-million, retaining full ownership of the Tick Hill project. 

A Hawks operation has seen police officers seize chrome stockpiles and an excavator totalling more than R2 million in Limpopo, a spokesperson said. The operation at the Modikwa Mine in Burgersfort... 

Adani Mining has broken ground at its Carmichael opencut coal mine. 

Initial project activities are under way at the R250-million cash-funded East Manganese project in Hotazel, Northern Cape, where the hot sun will be harvested to provide solar power to the mine’s...