Manitowoc - Thu June 12, 2025
Grove Training Helps Drive Productivity at African Gold Mine
At the Yaouré Gold Mine in central Ivory Coast, a Grove GMK5150L all-terrain crane is essential for maintenance and urgent repairs across the expansive site. With limited technical support and challenging site conditions, the mine sought support from Manitowoc's West Africa distributor, Paterson Simons, to upskill its maintenance team on-site....
Komatsu - Wed May 14, 2025
Komatsu Achieves Autonomous Trolley Milestone With Battery-Ready Electric Drive Truck
Building on its legacy in autonomous mining, Komatsu has accomplished the milestone of autonomously operating a power agnostic electric drive truck while connected to a dynamic trolley line. Komatsu's trolley assist system is a solution designed to help operations reduce carbon emissions, extend engine life and support the journey toward a zero-emissions future....
Bureau of Land Management & Cowboy State Daily - Tue May 13, 2025
BLM Approves New $5B Pacific Soda Trona Mine in Wyo.
The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on May 2, 2025, the approval of the Dry Creek Trona Mine Project south of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyo. Trona is a mineral used to produce soda ash — an essential raw material in baking soda, glass, chemicals, detergents and other key industrial products, including lithium-ion batteries....
Komatsu - Mon January 17, 2022
Battery-powered Joy 02ESV Scoops Offer Operator Comfort, Longer Time Between Charges
Scoops are true utility workhorses in soft rock mine. They handle multiple tasks, including maintenance, re-supply, clean-up and rock dusting. To help get the job done, Komatsu's redesigned battery-powered Joy 02ESV scoops offer excellent operator comfort and robust time between charges, according to the company....
U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs - Wed April 24, 2019
EPA to Award $220M for Mine Cleanup on Navajo Nation
U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to award multiple contracts worth an estimated $220 million over a five-year period to address the legacy of uranium contamination from abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation area....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 19, 2018
MDT Changes Course of $25M Road Project Due to Old Olive Branch Mine
When the Montana Department of Transportation set out to reroute some outdated stretches of Interstates 15-90, it encountered an unexpected landmark. Located between the westbound and eastbound bridges, both built in the 1960s and considered "functionally obsolete" was an old, abandoned mine, dubbed the Olive Branch mine....
Fluor - Wed August 08, 2018
Fluor to Design, Build Quellaveco Copper Project in Peru
Fluor Corporation announced it has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management of Anglo American's Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru....
Nicole Foy – Associated Press - Mon July 02, 2018
Sinkholes, Poison Gas, Dynamite: Inside Abandoned Mines
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) A century-old gold mine is a curious place, and that's a problem for those whose job it is to find bats and blasting caps as worrisome as the public finds them to be wondrous. When the 2015 fire in Owyhee County finally burned out, a team of experts from the Bureau of Land Management followed closely behind the wildland firefighters assessing the safety of public land known as the Owyhee Front....
Emily Buenzle - Wed May 09, 2018
Federal Funds Help State Clean Up Abandoned Mines
One state's mines are in for some spring cleaning. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said it plans to spend $55 million on cleaning up abandoned mines across the state. Projects will include:Treating polluted water from the mines;Stabilizing mine lands that have been deemed unsafe; andPutting out mine fires that have been burning underground, State Impact reported....
Wed August 02, 2017
BHP Selects Fluor for Australian Mining Project
Fluor Corporation announced Aug. 2, that it was awarded a project and construction management services contract by BHP for the South Flank iron ore project located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia....
