Quarry and Mining News in Construction and Infrastructure
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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 Jers...
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...
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...
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’...
The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around t...
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 ve...
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 smelt...
Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable...
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 on...
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...
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...
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 an...
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...
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....
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 rem...
For six decades, the iron ore fields of Western Australiaβs Pilbara region have quietly helped shape the modern world. From the steel skeletons of megacities to bridges,...
The pressure on Europeβs quarrying and mining sectors isnβt easing anytime soon. Aggregate producers are being squeezed from every angle as energy prices fluctuate, equip...
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 ju...
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 Regi...
Speed has become one of the most valuable commodities in the aggregates, recycling and quarrying industries. Whether operators are processing material at a temporary cons...
Chile sits at the centre of the global copper economy, supplying the metal that underpins electrification, renewable power networks, electric vehicles, data centres and m...
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 in...
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 tow...
The global mining and resources sector is entering a decisive phase. Demand is surging, not just incrementally, but structurally, driven by electrification, digital infra...
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, relent...
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...
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...
The agreement to secure the long-term future of the Boyne aluminium smelter marks a significant intervention in Australiaβs industrial landscape. Aluminium smelting remai...
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 partici...
In the forests of VΓ€sterbotten County in northern Sweden, a significant infrastructure project is quietly shaping the future of one of Europeβs most important gold operat...
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 pro...
Understanding how rocks fracture has long been one of the quiet but critical puzzles underpinning modern infrastructure, energy production and geotechnical engineering. F...
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...
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 tran...
Autonomous haulage has spent more than a decade promising step changes in productivity, safety and cost control for the global mining industry. Yet progress has been unev...
Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, ground investigation remains one of the most risk-laden phases of project delivery. Despite advances in digital...
Across the global mining industry, the conversation has shifted. Productivity, safety, compliance and cost control are no longer treated as separate ambitions but as inte...
The UKβs flagship quarrying and construction equipment exhibition is no stranger to scale, complexity or pressure. Every two years, thousands of professionals converge on...
Across mining, quarrying and large-scale earthmoving operations, hauling efficiency often decides whether a project runs smoothly or slowly bleeds margin. Wide body truck...
Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a single sticking point. Organisations arenβt sh...
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