McHale Komatsu has secured an agreement to supply a large Komatsu mining fleet to Tungsten West PLC for the restart of the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in Devon, one of the world’s largest tungsten resources. The deal supports redevelopment of the open-pit operation, which previously used large-scale truck–shovel mining and extensive waste stripping. For geotechnical and mine planners, the new fleet specification will influence haul road geometry, pit slope performance under renewed traffic loading, and scheduling for high-volume tungsten and tin ore movement.

Glencore Technology is expanding deployment of its Jameson Cell into rougher flotation duties, using its high-intensity downcomer design to boost throughput and recovery in both brownfield debottlenecking and greenfield concentrators. The compact cell footprint allows replacement of multiple conventional mechanical cells, freeing floor area and reducing associated structural steel and piping. For plant designers and metallurgists, this signals growing scope to retrofit rougher banks for higher volumetric efficiency without major civil works or additional flotation lines.

MMD Group has acquired full intellectual property rights from Anglo American for TraxIQ, a system-level material handling solution designed to optimise truck, shovel and in-pit crushing plant interactions across mine sites. Control logic and data integration in TraxIQ coordinate loading units, conveyors and semi-mobile crushers to reduce queuing, idle time and surge bin overloads, improving utilisation of high-capex assets. For geotechnical and mine planners, wider deployment could change haul road design, crusher station siting and stockpile geometry to suit more tightly managed material flow.