Mining technology news tracks the latest innovations reshaping how mines operate—from automation and robotics to AI, IoT, and data-driven decision-making. This category features updates on smart equipment, fleet management software, remote operations, and green tech improving safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Discover how tech leaders, OEMs, and mining firms are adapting to digital transformation and ESG requirements. Essential for engineers, tech strategists, and executives following the future of mining. Related categories: Mining Equipment, Underground Mining, and Mining Operations.
An industrial tailings recovery operation requires integrated controls for water, energy, permitting, closure and disclosure. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement…
The Crawford project is designing autonomy, electrification and fleet management into its mine plan from the outset. Canada Nickel’s planned Crawford nickel project in Ontario is…
Illustrative view of a copper tailings recovery and wet-leach processing facility in Zambia’s Copperbelt. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement and…
By Penny Langford Critical Metals Corp. is positioning a proposed refinery near Brașov, Romania, as a test of whether Europe can turn an unusual Greenland mineral…
Driverless haul trucks operating in sequence on an open-pit mine bench. By Sonny Rollins An estimated 5,684 autonomous haul trucks were operating or autonomy-ready in surface…
Copper tailings recovery infrastructure at a hydrometallurgical processing facility. By Charles Pitts Konkola Copper Mines has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement and construction contract with…
Copper concentrate stockpiled beside material-handling equipment at a smelting facility. By Mo Shine The copper concentrate market has reached a point that would have been difficult…
Mid-size haul truck operating on a Virginia-style aggregates quarry road. By Penny Langford Caterpillar is expanding autonomous haulage beyond large open-pit mines and onto the Cat…
Copper heap-leach pads, solution ponds and processing infrastructure in the Arizona desert. By Charles Pitts Freeport-McMoRan is weighing a roughly $4.5 billion expansion of its Bagdad…
Autonomous battery-electric haul trucks operate on a terraced open-pit mine. The commercial question around autonomous mining technology is changing. Operators are no longer asking only whether…
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