MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo

MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo Screening equipment rarely receives the attention given to crushers, excavators and loaders in a quarry, yet comparatively small changes at the screen deck can have consequences throughout the production process. Blocked apertures restrict capacity, incorrectly sized material becomes carryover, abrasive rock accelerates wear… Read more…

Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry

Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany, where rigid haulers routinely accumulate between 25,000 and 35,000 operating hours. Built at Volvo Construction Equipment’s Motherwell facility in Scotland, the 65-tonne machine joins a quarry… Read more…

Volvo EC400 Hybrid Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines

Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has reduced fuel consumption by around 30% against the EC380E it replaced. The saving comes from the repeated stripping of overburden that must be moved before any bentonite is reached, … Read more…

Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges

Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and water leakage in fine detail, yet each inspection has tended to stand alone, a snapshot taken from whatever angle and distance the inspector or drone … Read more…

Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK

Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. The significance sits underneath it. When JN Civils switched on a 150-tonnes-an-hour construction, demolition and excavation (CD&E) recycling plant, engineered by Northern … Read more…

America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource

America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening on top of the waste that more than a century of mining has already produced, crushed and concentrated, then left behind. Arizona State … Read more…

Braen Stone Puts New York’s Aggregate Supply Chain On The Water

Braen Stone Puts New York’s Aggregate Supply Chain On The Water For a company that has spent 122 years moving crushed stone by road, Braen Stone’s decision to start delivering aggregates by barge across the New York and New Jersey waterways reads less like a sustainability gesture and more like a calculated answer to an … Read more…

Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining

Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the moment carried more weight than the retirement of a single machine. The loader in question, an NLK-specification unit, was the fourth of four new R2900G LHDs … Read more…

Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply

Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply The most valuable critical minerals resource in the American Southeast may already have been dug up, hauled, screened and stacked. That is the commercial premise behind a $7.5 million US Department of Energy award to Georgia Tech, which will lead the Critical … Read more…

Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico

Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’s Mexican organisation has signed a partnership with Rajant Corporation to deliver Kinetic Mesh wireless networking to mining customers across the country. Taken individually, &#8230… Read more…

Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future

Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around the equipment operators already own rather than an entirely new fleet tied to one manufacturer. Their memorandum of understanding covers the … Read more…

Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map

Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map For most of the industrial era, the phrase critical minerals conjured open pits, haul trucks and mountains reduced to gravel. That picture is now being challenged by a very different one, in which the raw materials of electrification and defence are drawn from the sea … Read more…

From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market

From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deployment says more about the direction of industrial … Read more…

Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing

Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable throughput all have a direct impact on project productivity, maintenance costs and profitability. Sandvik’s completion of its upgraded jaw crusher portfolio… Read more…

Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet

Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics of moving rock as it does about any one machine. Greenstone Resources Corporation has taken delivery of eight New Generation Volvo A40 … Read more…

Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation

Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation A research team at Adelaide University has put forward a different answer to a question the mining industry has been spending heavily to solve: how to take people out of dangerous ground without bankrupting the operation or building in new ways for it to … Read more…

Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry

Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry For onshore producers working mature fields, the barrier to higher output is often not what lies in the reservoir but what happens to the oil once it starts moving. Waxy crude that flows freely at reservoir temperature can stiffen, gel and coat equipment as it … Read more…

Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges

Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground and onto the machine. With the launch of Certifiable On-Board Weighing for its wheel loaders, the company is letting … Read more…

The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks

The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl of heavy machinery working hard. That’s where I found myself behind the … Read more…

Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in

Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal electricity to register on a national balance sheet. A partnership unveiled on the opening day of the World Geothermal Congress in Calgary is setting … Read more…

Arctic Mining Goes Autonomous as Greenland Resources Joins EU Robotics Initiative

Arctic Mining Goes Autonomous as Greenland Resources Joins EU Robotics Initiative The mining industry has long relied on human expertise to navigate some of the world’s harshest operating environments. Yet as mineral projects move deeper into remote regions and investors demand greater efficiency, safety and environmental accountability, digital technologies are increasingly becoming a criti… Read more…

Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports

Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports For six decades, the iron ore fields of Western Australia’s Pilbara region have quietly helped shape the modern world. From the steel skeletons of megacities to bridges, railways, ports, data centres and renewable energy infrastructure, the region’s vast reserves have underpinned … Read more…

MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026

MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026 The pressure on Europe’s quarrying and mining sectors isn’t easing anytime soon. Aggregate producers are being squeezed from every angle as energy prices fluctuate, equipment costs climb, environmental regulations tighten and infrastructure demand continues to rise. Across the UK and Ireland, operators are being pushed to … Read more…

Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada

Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada Remote and semi-autonomous equipment has been steadily reshaping the mining sector for more than a decade, but the pressure to deploy those systems quickly is becoming just as important as the technology itself. In Northern Canada, where extreme climates, unstable ground conditions and operational risk can … Read more…

The Next Giant in Gold Mining Takes Shape in Australia

The Next Giant in Gold Mining Takes Shape in Australia The global gold sector is no stranger to consolidation, but every so often a transaction emerges that reshapes the competitive landscape. The proposed merger between Regis Resources and Vault Minerals falls squarely into that category. Announced on 5 May 2026, the deal would combine two … Read more…

CDE Unveils Rapid Deploy ModaLine Washing Plant for Fast Moving Materials Markets

CDE Unveils Rapid Deploy ModaLine Washing Plant for Fast Moving Materials Markets Speed has become one of the most valuable commodities in the aggregates, recycling and quarrying industries. Whether operators are processing material at a temporary construction project, opening a new quarry face, responding to changing market demand or mobilising equipment to remote locations, time … Read more…

Smarter Copper Extraction Drives Ideon Launch In Chile

Smarter Copper Extraction Drives Ideon Launch In Chile Chile sits at the centre of the global copper economy, supplying the metal that underpins electrification, renewable power networks, electric vehicles, data centres and modern infrastructure. So when a specialist technology company chooses Santiago as the next stage of its international growth, the move deserves attention well … Read more…

Synthetic Pendants Redefine Fatigue Management for High-Output Mining Equipment

Synthetic Pendants Redefine Fatigue Management for High-Output Mining Equipment Mining operations have always lived on the edge of mechanical limits, but the pressure to extract more material, faster and more efficiently, has pushed equipment into increasingly demanding territory. Attention is now shifting toward a less visible but persistent issue: the cumulative impact of vibration and … Read more…

pH7 Technologies Rewriting the Economics of Critical Mineral Extraction

pH7 Technologies Rewriting the Economics of Critical Mineral Extraction The global race for critical minerals has entered a new phase. It is no longer just about finding new deposits buried deep underground. Instead, attention is shifting towards what can be recovered from what already exists. Canadian firm pH7 Technologies has secured a substantial financing package … Read more…

Resourcing Tomorrow 2026 Sets the Stage for Delivery in a Changing Resource Landscape

Resourcing Tomorrow 2026 Sets the Stage for Delivery in a Changing Resource Landscape The global mining and resources sector is entering a decisive phase. Demand is surging, not just incrementally, but structurally, driven by electrification, digital infrastructure, defence priorities and the reshaping of global supply chains. Resourcing Tomorrow 2026, taking place in London from 1 … Read more…

Engineering Resilience Across Continents in Modern Mining Operations

Engineering Resilience Across Continents in Modern Mining Operations From the equatorial heat of West Africa to the frozen reaches of Northern Europe, mining operations continue to push machinery to its limits. Temperature extremes, relentless production schedules and unforgiving terrain combine to create some of the harshest working environments on earth. In these conditions, equipment is … Read more…

Hillhead 2026 Expands Capacity as Demand Signals Strong Market Confidence

Hillhead 2026 Expands Capacity as Demand Signals Strong Market Confidence Set against the rugged limestone backdrop of Hillhead Quarry in the United Kingdom, the upcoming edition of Hillhead 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most commercially significant gatherings for the global quarrying and construction equipment sector. With more than 600 exhibitors expected … Read more…

Mines and Money Online Connect Powers Global Mining Investment Dialogue

Mines and Money Online Connect Powers Global Mining Investment Dialogue The global mining industry is no stranger to cycles of capital constraint, geopolitical pressure and shifting commodity demand. Yet even in uncertain conditions, the need for investment, partnership and project visibility remains constant. Mines and Money Online Connect 2026 returns on 14–15 July 2026, offering … Read more…

Securing the Future of Aluminium Production in Queensland

Securing the Future of Aluminium Production in Queensland The agreement to secure the long-term future of the Boyne aluminium smelter marks a significant intervention in Australia’s industrial landscape. Aluminium smelting remains one of the most energy-intensive manufacturing processes in the world, and without access to competitively priced electricity, operations often become unviable. The deci… Read more…

Sri Lanka Positions Graphite at the Heart of its Industrial Future

Sri Lanka Positions Graphite at the Heart of its Industrial Future Sri Lanka has taken a decisive step to reposition one of its most valuable natural resources within the global industrial supply chain. By inviting private sector participation in the integrated development of the Kahatagaha Graphite Mine, the government is signalling a shift away from … Read more…

Peab Strengthens Europe’s Gold Supply Chain with Björkdal Mine Expansion

Peab Strengthens Europe’s Gold Supply Chain with Björkdal Mine Expansion In the forests of Västerbotten County in northern Sweden, a significant infrastructure project is quietly shaping the future of one of Europe’s most important gold operations. Swedish construction group Peab has been awarded a contract worth SEK 155 million to expand and raise tailings dams … Read more…

Smarter Ore Crushing Could Transform Global Mineral Processing

Smarter Ore Crushing Could Transform Global Mineral Processing Across the global mining industry, crushing and grinding ore remains one of the most energy-hungry steps in mineral extraction. Known collectively as comminution, the process is essential for liberating valuable minerals such as copper and gold from the surrounding rock. Yet it comes with a steep price. … Read more…

X Ray Breakthrough Reveals How Sandstone Fractures Under Pressure

X Ray Breakthrough Reveals How Sandstone Fractures Under Pressure Understanding how rocks fracture has long been one of the quiet but critical puzzles underpinning modern infrastructure, energy production and geotechnical engineering. From tunnels and foundations to oil reservoirs and underground waste storage, the behaviour of rock under stress determines whether projects succeed or fail. Now, &#… Read more…

Rebuilding the Critical Minerals Supply Chain from Rock to Refinery

Rebuilding the Critical Minerals Supply Chain from Rock to Refinery One of the defining infrastructure challenges of the 2020s is not a bridge, a tunnel or a megaproject. It is the quiet but decisive struggle to secure critical materials that underpin everything from smartphones and satellites to grid-scale batteries, data centres and advanced defence systems. … Read more…

AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines

AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines The global race for copper has intensified. From electrified transport and grid expansion to data centres and renewable power, copper sits at the heart of the energy transition. According to the International Energy Agency, demand for copper in clean energy technologies alone is expected to more … Read more…