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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.
Autonomous haulage is moving from isolated pilots toward larger, mixed-powertrain fleets. Autonomous mining technology is entering a more consequential phase. The question is no longer whether…
Mining companies can buy autonomous drills, remote-controlled dozers and AI software. The harder question is whether the mine has the smart mining digital infrastructure to make…
Surface facilities at an underground platinum-group-metals mine in Montana. About 420 workers at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Stillwater East mine and Columbus Metallurgical Complex in Montana walked off the…
Processing infrastructure is becoming a central source of strategic value in mining transactions. Mining M&A is increasingly being shaped by a question that sits beyond resource…
Battery-electric haulage is moving from pilot projects to large-scale autonomous deployment, with EACON reporting more than 1,500 electric mining trucks using its autonomous solution. The scale…
Copper processing infrastructure at a large-scale mining and smelting complex. Global copper mine production fell 1.1% in the first half of 2026, even as installed capacity…
Autonomous haulage is moving from isolated trials toward repeatable fleet-scale deployment. Komatsu’s commissioning of its 1,000th ultra-class autonomous haul truck marks a significant shift in mining…
An Indonesian nickel processing complex in Sulawesi. Indonesia’s decision to tighten nickel ore approvals has shifted the market’s central question from how quickly processing capacity can…
Processing capacity, rather than mine supply alone, is becoming the central constraint in critical-mineral markets. The critical minerals supply chain is increasingly constrained downstream. New mines…
Copper smelter casting line in a modern industrial processing facility. Copper’s 2026 outlook is being shaped by an unusual combination of tight concentrate supply, historically low…
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