16.03.2021 (381 Clicks)
Webuild Group selected as best bidder for Fortezza-Ponte Gardena Railway extending from Brenner Base Tunnel
Webuild Group has been selected as best bidder to design and build a €1.07-billion high-capacity railway for about 22.5 km that would extend from the Brenner Base Tunnel between Fortezza and Ponte Gardena.The selection comes after the Group was recently announced as best bidder for a €1.26-billion project to design and build sections B2 and C of the Pedemontant Lombarda highway project, bringing to about €2.3 billion the combined value of the two new possible projects.
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16.03.2021 (367 Clicks)
Webuild celebrates TBM Mireille’s Baptism on Line 16 of Grand Paris Express
Webuild celebrated the baptism of tunnel-boring machine (TBM) “Mireille” that will begin later this month excavating a 5.3-kilometre section of the metro tunnel for Line 16 in northern Paris, part of Europe’s most ambitious sustainable mobility project: the Grand Paris Express.
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16.03.2021 (336 Clicks)
Hatch LTK celebrates 100th Anniversary
Hatch LTK a global powerhouse in transportation engineering with specialized expertise in transit, vehicles, and systems, has celebrated its 100th anniversary on Monday, March 15.
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16.03.2021 (392 Clicks)
More than 1000 job opportunities for resourceful and energetic Queenslanders
The Queensland resources and energy sector is currently looking to fill more than 1000 jobs across the State, Queensland Resources Council (QRC) Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said today.
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16.03.2021 (447 Clicks)
QRC welcomes Santos Exploration Project and domestic Gas Boost
The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has congratulated Santos on being awarded an Authority to Prospect (ATP) in the gas-rich Bowen and Surat Basins.
QRC Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said Resources Minister Scott Stewart’s announcement that Santos had been granted a domestic gas ATP was a win for the gas industry and for industrial and household consumers.
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15.03.2021 (441 Clicks)
Milestone for Coal Mine Rehabilitation
The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has joined the Resources Minister, Scott Stewart, in congratulating Glencore coal on its transformation of previous open-cut mining areas at Oaky Creek coal mine to native vegetation with the potential for grazing.
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15.03.2021 (490 Clicks)
BAUER Group receives Order for fourth Section of Dike Remediation Project in Jordan
As part of a large dike remediation project at the Dead Sea, BAUER International FZE – a company in the BAUER Group – has successfully constructed cut-off walls on behalf of the Arab Potash Company (APC) since 2018. Recently, Bauer was commissioned with the fourth remediation section amounting to roughly EUR 41 million. This increases the total contract value to roughly EUR 160 million.
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15.03.2021 (469 Clicks)
Boliden: Production Disturbances in Aitik and Tara
As a result of increased sick leave related to covid-19 together with production disruptions in both the Aitik mine in Sweden and the Tara mine in Ireland, operating profit in the Business Area Mines is estimated to be negatively affected by close to SEK 200 m during the first quarter.
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12.03.2021 (331 Clicks)
Metso Outotec Innovation Center is live – a unique Way to collaborate on Mining and Metals Processes
Designing mining and metals processes to match the demand for increased operating efficiency and sustainability requires fast and seamless collaboration from the industry and its suppliers. At the same time, the need for suitable virtual environments in which to quickly develop and test flowsheet solutions and prototypes has become paramount. Metso Outotec is now unveiling the Innovation Center, which brings together the comprehensive value chain from ore to metals and enables rapid co-creation with customers and partners. The first Metso Outotec Innovation Center is located in Espoo, Finland.
The game-changing Innovation Center offers unique expertise and tools for solving different types of challenges, from process optimization to the selection and virtual prototyping of solutions, in a cutting-edge environment. It takes ideation, collaboration, and innovation to the next level.
“The Innovation Center introduces a completely new way to collaborate and co-create with our customers and partners. Adding value to our customers’ processes and ensuring their reliable, efficient and sustainable operation, as well as safety are all at the core of what we do at the Innovation Center,” says Veli-Matti Järvinen, Vice President for Automation and Digital Solutions, Minerals, at Metso Outotec.
Cutting-edge digital space
The Innovation Center’s versatile capabilities include offering demonstrations digitally, hosting training, problem-solving and co-creation workshop sessions, demonstrating technologies and services, concretizing value calculations, and displaying three-dimensional digital twins in accurate form while protecting data and sensitive content securely, to name a few examples. More features are being introduced continuously.
“In our new digital space, we can support our customers at every stage of their continuous improvement path. We’re thrilled about the opportunities offered by the Innovation Center: it speeds up the innovation cycle and makes efficient collaboration possible in a space that is both physical and digital,” concludes Järvinen.
Innovation Center’s key customer benefits
- Identify, understand, and solve customers’ problems and bottlenecks
- Find the best roadmap and solutions together with the industry’s best experts
- Co-creation and next-level cooperation
- Concretize value calculations
- Speed up new innovations
- Create additional value to already existing products and solutions
- Accelerate time-to-market
Source: Metso Outotec







12.03.2021 (444 Clicks)
Fugro joins Forces with dCarbonX on Decarbonisation Exploration
Fugro has signed a strategic framework agreement (SFA) with dCarbonX, a pioneering geo-energy resource company, for decarbonisation exploration projects supporting the development of offshore geo-energy resources in the UK and Ireland. The SFA will enable Fugro and dCarbonX to collaborate on decarbonisation exploration projects at the earliest opportunity and to share relevant data, technological insights and operational scheduling.
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20.10.2022
Energy-efficient and environment-friendly Tunnel Logistics with Automated Service Vehicles
When it comes to supplying tunnel boring machines in drivages innovative Automated Service Vehicles (ASVs) can offer an effective alternative to conventional track-bound conveyances and Multi-Service Vehicles (MSVs). This article outlines the flexibility, efficiency and environment-friendly qualities of ASVs and describes how this has been put to good use at the Kerenzerberg safety tunnel in Switzerland and at the SKW2 Kühtai pumped storage plant in Austria....
#Virturail GmbH #Tunnelling #Traffic tunnels #Machinery for Mining and Construction #battery-electric vehicles #tunnel boring machines (TBM)
20.10.2022
An Alternative for Mineral Oil in Hydraulic Systems
Mineral oil-free Hydraulic Fluids proving a national and international Success
Current developments pose a risk to our supply chains. Climate change, environment protection and occupational safety are increasingly taking centre stage. This paper presents one potential solution where mineral oil-based media can be replaced by water-based polymer fluids in hydraulic systems. This is one fairly simple way in which companies can contribute to workplace safety, environmental conservation and resource security....
#Fluid Competence GmbH #GTA Maschinensysteme GmbH #Gasser Felstechnik AG #SaarMontan Berg- und Tunnelbau GmbH #SaarGrundbau GmbH & Co. KG #Mining
18.07.2022
Erosion-stable Road Embankments – Design and Selection of System Solutions
Temporary or permanent erosion-control measures on slopes along roads contribute to traffic safety and climate protection. This article deals with the mechanisms of slope erosion, the selection of s...
#Naue #Geotechnics #software
27.03.2023 - 29.03.2023
AusIMM - Underground Operators Conference 2023
29.03.2023 - 30.03.2023
Solids Dortmund
13.04.2023 - 14.04.2023
ICSMGE 2023: 17. International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
17.04.2023 - 21.04.2023
Hannover Messe 2023

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (918 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.
#Brennero Tunnel Construction (BTC) #HOSCH-Foerdertechnik Recklinghausen GmbH #Tunnelling #Traffic tunnels #Conveyor technology #Digitalisation
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RAG-Technikchronik - Buch 4: Technikentwicklung in der Logistik
27. December 2018 (3847 Clicks)
Das Buch 4 der Buchreihe „Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG“ zeigt die Entwicklungen der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte im Bereich Logistik der RAG. Die Logistik unter Tage wurde durch die flächige Entwicklung des Steinkohlenbergbaus, z.B. durch Anschluss- oder Verbundbergwerke, und die Zunahme der Gewinnungsteufe vor erhebliche Herausforderungen gestellt.
#RAG Aktiengesellschaft #Mining #underground mining #abandoned mining
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Sorcia Minerals and Sinolithium Materials join forces for the construction of “battery-grade” Lithium hydroxide conversion plants
Sorcia Minerals, specialist in the extraction and transformation of high puri...
#Mining #processing
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24.02.2023 (342 Clicks)
International Battery Metals to begin Commercialization
International Battery Metals Ltd., (the "Company" or "IBAT&quo...
#International Battery Metals Ltd. #Mining #processing
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27.02.2023 (278 Clicks)
H.C. Starck Tungsten´s Goslar site certified according to EMAS
H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials Group...
#H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH #TÜV Nord #Mining #processing #Processing
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02.03.2023 (218 Clicks)
Metso Outotec wins Order for Iron Ore Pelletizing Plants in China
Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engin...
#Metso Outotec #Chengde Zhaofeng Iron and Steel Group, Co. Ltd #Mining #processing
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