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... 

Equipment used to recover bulk materials suffers serious damage from tramp iron, such as wires, nuts, bolts or excavator teeth. The new e-book explains how to select the right equipment for the... 

Indian major Adani has broken ground at its Carmichael opencut coal mine, in Queensland. Adani Mining CEO David Boshoff said the work to remove the rock was a significant milestone to have ticked... 

Goscor Earthmoving Equipment has made significant inroads into the coal-mining region of Lephalale in Limpopo with the sale of a SANY SY750 excavator to start-up customer Phaphanyi Trading. As an... 

JCB is today celebrating the news that its electric mini excavator has scooped one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for engineering innovation. The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering has today... 

MACA has been awarded a mining contract at the Corunna Downs mine. 

African Gold Group has announced that it plans to mine the Kobada project with a standard openpit mining method using articulated trucks and a hydraulic loader.  

A gold mine located in Guerrero State, in Mexico. 

White Hazy Building Construction, established in 1997 in Nelspruit, has acquired a brand new SANY SY215 22 t hydraulic excavator from Goscor Earthmoving (GEM). A well-known contractor in... 

A revised scoping study using the Utah Point multiuser bulk handling facility at Port Hedland as a shipping port has confirmed excellent project economics. 

As the sun sank over a vast opencast coal mine in eastern Serbia earlier this month, a small crane eased the front half of a Roman ship from the steep sides of the pit. An excavator cutting... 

A scoping study has proposed the development of a mining and toll treatment operation. 

Guidelines for streamlining the process and procedures for laying of new pipes for water in a city centre where roads are only 2 meter wide.  

Proactive testing at gold miner B2Gold’s Fekola mine, in Mali, has identified ten positive Covid-19 cases, nine of which are asymptomatic. The company is now considering conducting comprehensive... 

Condra’s authorised agent for the Witbank area, GTB Industrial Services, has secured a contract for a technically complex crane to service a Mpumalanga-based colliery’s dragline excavator. Condra... 

Macmahon has been tipped as the preferred contractor for the project. 

Following a “drastic” slowdown in sales, rentals and aftermarket support in the agriculture sector during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, equipment supplier Goscor Earthmoving (GEM) national... 

A coal mine located in New South Wales, in Australia. 

A contract won by Witbank company GTB Industrial Services will see Condra manufacturing a technically complex crane to service an Mpumalanga colliery’s dragline excavator. Condra will deliver the... 

An innovative hydrocyclone solution is allowing a large Zambian copper mine to develop a safe and cost effective tailings storage facility (TSF). The TSF faced a number of specific challenges,... 

A copper mine located at Mt Fubilan, in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea