Mining articles
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Remembering the Benwood Mine Disaster 100 years ago
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Benwood Mine Disaster. It was shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, 1924, when an explosion and fire tore through the Wheeling Steel Corporation mine in the northern panhandle community just south of Wheeling. Over 100 men had gone in the mine just a half-hour before to
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Michigan mine to use Intramotev autonomous freight cars
ST. LOUIS – Intramotev, which retrofits freight cars with autonomous, self-propelled battery electric technology, today announced a partnership with global mining company Carmeuse Americas to deploy its TugVolt cars at a limestone mine in Cedarville, Mich. “We couldn’t have asked for a better partner to deploy our technology in Michigan than Carmeuse,” Intramotev CEO Tim []Read More
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Marula secures new graphite mining licences in Tanzania
The addition of new licences brings the total number of graphite mining licences in the projects to 35, spanning around 337 hectares (ha).