Eldorado Gold is readying to deploy in June its first battery-electric truck at the Lamaque underground mine in Quebec, Canada, as part of its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. The Vancouver-based company has already tested a Normet SmartDrive concrete transportation vehicle at its Efemçukuru gold mine in Turkey. Eldorado plans to Read More
A consortium consisting of maritime, mining, and energy companies, including Tata Steel, Anglo American, CMB, VUKA Marine, Freeport Saldanha, and ENGIE, is collaborating to develop a green corridor for the zero-emission shipping of iron ore between Europe and South Africa. This maritime green corridor initiative is a first of its kind from Africa and represents a Read More
Volvo Trucks and Swedish mining company Boliden have announced a collaboration to implement electric truck transport in underground applications. Boliden will become one of the first companies in the world to use battery-electric trucks for heavy underground transport starting in 2023. Boliden will deploy two heavy electric Volvo trucks at its Kankberg mine, outside Skellefteå in Read More
Newmont, a diversified mining company based in Colorado, has partnered with the US Department of Energy (DoE) to explore a process for rapid electrochemical mineralization that would form dolomite (REMineD) for sequestering carbon in mine tailings. The $4.38 million project, co-funded by the DoE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Technology Commercialization Fund, will last Read More
Anglesey Mining has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mine Storage International AB to explore the potential for a pumped hydro-energy storage project at the Grängesberg iron ore mine in Sweden after mining ceases. The project would use water and gravity to store electrical energy, using proven pumped hydro-power technology, and could provide a long-term Read More
VivoPower and its subsidiary Tembo e-LV have signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia's Petrosea for the marketing and distribution of Tembo electric conversion kits for Toyota 4x4 vehicles. Petrosea has agreed to sell 2,000 Tembo e-LV conversion kits through December 2027, subject to the final agreement's terms and conditions. The Tembo kits convert diesel-powered Toyota Read More
Uranium Energy Corp (UEC), the largest, diversified North American focused uranium mining company, has released its first Sustainability Report, showcasing the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) achievements for 2022 and plans for 2023. UEC is advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly In-Situ Recovery (ISR) mining uranium projects. During a remarkable growth year, UEC Read More
Schneider Electric and Australian carbon accounting platform, Avarni, have announced a partnership to track emissions and accelerate decarbonization across the value chain of an enterprise. These are typically referred as Scope 3 emissions, and according to CDP, may be up to 11 times greater than a company’s direct footprint. “The quantification and reduction of emissions beyond Read More
Exxaro, a South African mining company, is expected to reach financial close at the end of March for the construction of a 68 MW solar power plant in Lephalale, at a cost of between R1.52 billion and R1.56 billion. Exxaro is partnering with independent energy company Enertrag to develop wind and solar energy projects for mines Read More
For the MOF-3 copper concentrating complex in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, a part of the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Company, over 60 of SANY SKT105 mining trucks with a capacity of 75 tons have been delivered to Enter Engineering, the contract miner for the project. For MOF-3, Enter also recently acquired a SANY SET150 dump truck with Read More
