electrification

Hitachi Construction Machinery is partnering with ABB to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are emitted from heavy mining machinery.

Mining and mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies have joined forced for the newly established Electric Mine Consortium, encouraging battery electric vehicles to provide safer solutions for the industry.

A growing number of companies globally are looking to electrify their mines as an attractive way to reduce costs, improve energy efficiency and steward their licence to operate. Mine electrification is increasingly viewed as a solution to reduce the steady increase of energy costs, which make up one-third of a mining company’s total cost base, … Continue reading Electrification gains priority on mining agenda →

Sandvik is working with several major mining houses to further the development of battery electric solutions for hard rock mining operations.