Over 100 Years Ago, No One Thought Rio Tinto Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine In Utah Would Be Profitable. Today, It Is Not Only An Economic Stalwart, But Also A Major Charge In Driving The Future Of Responsible Mining.
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BacTech Environmental Corp. hired David Tingey as chief operating officer in January. He will oversee operations development and management across the company, setting and driving strategic recommendations that support immediate shareholder interests in its Ponce Enriquez, Ecuador bioleaching project and its evolving South American growth strategy. The strategic addition of Tingey comes on the heels of the company announcing robust…
Read MoreRio Tinto is now 100% owner of the Diavik diamond operation in Canada’s Northwest Territories after acquiring the remaining 40% it did not already own from Dominion Diamond Mines.
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Rio Tinto’s Kennecott and one of the state’s schools, Brigham Young University, are collaborating together to look for ways to establish more sustainable reclamation techniques at the miner’s Bingham Canyon operation outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. In June 2020, students and professors from the BYU Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry broke…
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Zero-emission equipment is now firmly on the radar for the industry thanks to a brand-new effort by Komatsu, Rio Tinto, BHP, Codelco and Boliden to fast-track the effort. The founding members of the Komatsu Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance will work collaboratively with the OEM to plan, develop, test and deploy the next generation of zero-emission mining equipment and infrastructure. The…
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Zero-emission equipment is now firmly on the radar for the industry thanks to a brand-new initiative by Komatsu, Rio Tinto, BHP, Codelco and Boliden to fast-track the effort.
Read MoreRio Tinto has set a start date in the fourth quarter of this year for its plant to recover tellurium from its copper refining at the Kennecott mine near Salt Lake City, Utah.
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A trio of top global mining operators – BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale – have come together on a mission crucial to the future of mining with the launch of the Charge On Innovation Challenge, a competition inviting innovators from across the world to develop new design concepts for haul truck electrification systems.
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Rio Tinto said in mid-August that it was experiencing delays in its smelter restart at the Kennecott copper mine outside of Salt Lake City due to “unexpected issues” following planned maintenance.
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