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Caterpillar has just opened the Black Hills Engineering Design Center, offering a firsthand look at how virtual reality and advanced visualisation are transforming equipment development and training.
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Caterpillar has just opened the Black Hills Engineering Design Center, offering a firsthand look at how virtual reality and advanced visualisation are transforming equipment development and training.

Teck Resources Limited, Canada Growth Fund Inc. (“CGF”), and Natural Resources Canada (“NRCan”)’s Canada Critical Minerals Accelerator have announced that they have signed a Strategic Investment Agreement to support expanding production capacity for germanium, gallium, and antimony at Teck’s Trail Operations smelting and refining complex in British Columbia (“Trail”).

Weir, a global leader in mining technology, was awarded an order to supply a crushing circuit for Brightstar Resources’ Laverton Processing Plant, part of the Goldfields gold project in Western Australia.

Gunnar Zergiebel, Dr. Mario Dilefeld, and Steffen Vollrath, TAKRAF, describe how the evolution of gearless drive conveyors over the past decades is reshaping how modern mining conveyors are designed, operated, and maintained.

Jim Thomas, Lubrication Reliability Consultant at Lubrication Engineers, discusses how advanced gear lubrication can significantly reduce unplanned downtime, extend equipment life, and improve production efficiency in high-wear, high-impact crushing operations.

Metso has secured the continuation of a long-term supply agreement with a major mining company in South America for MX crusher wear parts used in Nordberg® MP1250 crushers.

COMINVI S.A. de C.V. (CoMinVi), one of Latin America’s leading underground mining contractors, has invested in a total of 73 Sandvik trucks, loaders, and drills across 2025 and 2026 for use at several of CoMinVi’s contracts across Mexico.

Building on an existing customer relationship, FLS has been awarded a key contract for the delivery of complete mill liner solutions to a gold mining operation in the Australia South-East Asia (ASEA) region.

Metso has been awarded an order to supply key cellhouse process equipment for a zinc smelter expansion project in South Asia.

Rosh Pinah Zinc (RPZ) and Appian Capital Advisory Limited (the investment advisor to long-term value-focused private capital funds) have announced the commissioning of the new SAG (semi-autogenous grinding) mill.

Mohamed Ghali, Komet Irrigation, explores why reliability is becoming a key consideration in dust suppression systems and how this supports safer, more efficient mining operations.

Aramine and sensmore are introducing an automated Aramine L140B Loader into underground production at Cemex in Germany, turning a proven underground machine into an autonomous production system for real operating conditions.