Hidden costs from traditional pivot pin maintenance on haul trucks, forestry harvesters and excavators are driving interest in Expander System’s oversized pivot pins with tapered sleeves, according to Nord-Lock Group head of sales Robin Persson. The retrofit design allows installation in worn pivot eyes without line boring or welding, using conical sleeves to create full-surface contact and reduce clearance growth. For mine maintenance teams, this can cut repeated pin replacement shutdowns and lower life-cycle costs on high-load joints such as dump body hinges, loader booms and articulation points.

Canadian Chrome Company has formed a three-person First Nations steering committee, including former Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Okimaw-Hall and former Marten Falls Chief Lawrence Baxter, to advise on its Ring of Fire chromite, nickel, copper and platinum assets in Ontario’s James Bay Lowlands. The committee will provide Indigenous perspectives to prospective buyers or partners ahead of any sale or merger involving CCC’s 90% interest in the Koper Lake project and 30% in the Big Daddy project. Both projects remain at pre‑PFS stage, with no new economic analysis disclosed.

Hycroft Mining has reported its highest-grade intercept yet at the Vortex zone in Nevada, with hole H26D-6175A cutting 19.6 m at 30.49 g/t gold and 1,726.72 g/t silver from 416.5 m, including 1.7 m at 347.07 g/t gold and 9,526.36 g/t silver from 433.2 m. The result extends high-grade mineralisation west and south, supporting studies of an underground start-up ahead of a $3.4 billion large-scale milling project modelled by BMO Capital Markets. Respec is designing a conceptual underground mine and ramp access, while Hatch and Hazen Research are testing concentrate-processing options and heap-leach restart scenarios.