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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.
The United States is backing Kenya’s ambition to build a domestic critical-minerals processing industry, turning a preliminary minerals framework into a test of whether African producers…
An engineered mining pile with drainage and geotechnical monitoring infrastructure in Brazil. Brazil is moving toward a dedicated national framework for the safety management of mining…
Battery-electric haulage is moving from pilot fleets into larger commercial mining operations. Autonomous mining technology is moving from controlled pilot projects into commercial fleet planning. EACON…
The United States says it will help Kenya build a domestic critical minerals processing industry, a pledge that lands right as Washington and Beijing jockey for…
Sandvik’s Sami concept moves autonomous mining technology 2026 beyond driverless haulage and toward a more complete vision of the crewless surface mine. The fully autonomous, battery-electric…
Autonomous mining technology 2026 is moving beyond pilot fleets. EACON says its autonomous haulage systems now operate on more than 3,500 mining trucks globally, including more…
An autonomous haul truck operates on a terraced open-pit mine haul road. Autonomous mining technology is moving from pilot projects to fleet-scale deployment, but the operational…
Copper concentrate supply is tightening as smelters compete for feedstock. Copper’s supply signal is no longer coming only from exchange inventories or mine guidance. It is…
Eldorado Gold’s Skouries project includes an open pit, underground mine and processing facilities on Greece’s Halkidiki Peninsula. Eldorado Gold has produced its first copper-gold concentrate at…
An open-pit tungsten operation in Galicia, Spain. Image: Skillings Mining Intelligence. Eurobattery Minerals said metallurgical testwork at its San Juan tungsten project in Galicia, Spain, produced…
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