Tonly Heavy Industries has delivered a fleet of 75 t-class TLE120 battery electric wide-body dump trucks to the Baiyan open-pit mining area of Wengfu Phosphate Mine in Guizhou Province, China. The trucks will operate on short-haul, high-frequency phosphate ore routes at the boundary of Weng’an County and Fuquan City, where haul profiles and predictable duty cycles favour battery swapping and regenerative braking. For mine planners and haulage engineers, the deployment signals growing Chinese adoption of large battery-electric trucks in high-volume open-pit phosphate operations.

Jevons Robotics has launched the ARTEV1000 Pre-Split System, a battery-electric robotic platform that automates loading of packaged pre-split explosives on highwalls. The system shifts all explosive loading and deployment equipment handling to remote operation, removing personnel from the highwall face and eliminating manual lifting of explosive packages. For drill-and-blast engineers, this points to tighter control of pre-split geometry and reduced exposure during highwall conditioning, especially on benches where ground conditions or scale make conventional manual loading high risk.

BHP and Amazon have launched an “industry-first” pilot to trade credits linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions from copper concentrate and cathodes produced at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine in Chile. Escondida already sources 100% of its electricity from renewable power contracts and uses desalinated water for processing, reducing Scope 2 emissions intensity relative to conventional operations. The pilot will test traceable, emissions-differentiated copper units in Amazon’s supply chain, signalling potential future premiums and contract structures for low‑carbon copper in OEM and data centre procurement.