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.

Jacobs has been appointed by Germany’s Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) to provide project support for the Konrad Repository in Salzgitter, a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste facility being developed within existing underground mining structures. The contract covers assessment of construction progress, validation of planning assumptions, schedule and cost plan reviews, and implementation of efficiency improvements under combined mining, nuclear and seismic regulatory constraints. Jacobs will align construction activities, timelines and cost structures with on-site conditions, drawing on experience from Sellafield and Belgian radioactive waste treatment and storage projects.