MMD Group has delivered two new Sizer Stations to the Mae Moh lignite mine in Thailand for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), extending a multi-phase upgrade from conventional crushers to modern mineral sizing. The stations use MMD’s twin-shaft sizer technology to handle variable lignite feed while controlling product top size for downstream power plant requirements. For mine planners and maintenance teams, the shift to modular sizer stations implies different layout, foundation loading, and wear-part strategies compared with traditional primary crushing plants.

Liebherr is deploying application engineers such as Michael Anthony to mine sites to analyse real operating conditions, combining machine data logging, digital simulations and on-board monitoring to close performance gaps in ultra-class haul trucks and excavators. Teams are benchmarking duty cycles, payload distributions and fuel burn against OEM envelopes, then adjusting parameters like digging geometry, bucket sizing and truck–shovel match to lift effective utilisation without hardware changes. For engineers, the message is to treat OEM support as a data-driven optimisation service, not just maintenance, with gains coming from cycle-time diagnostics rather than new fleet purchases.

Red Hill Minerals has started a 1200m, two-hole diamond drilling programme to test a strong off-hole EM conductor at its expanded Anabama copper–gold project in South Australia. The drilling targets potential extensions of copper–gold–silver mineralisation previously intersected at Anabama, which sits within the Curnamona earn-in joint venture with Spectre Metals. Results will clarify the scale and geometry of the conductor, guiding follow-up drilling, resource definition and any deeper geophysical work across the Curnamona tenement package.