Zijin Longking has dispatched the first production-line LK220E battery electric mining trucks from its Longyang City plant in Fujian Province, marking the start of series manufacture at the Longjing Smart Environmental Protection Industrial Park. At the same event on 9 May, the company signed a new contract for its larger LK350E battery electric truck, signalling customer commitment to higher-capacity BEV haulage. For mine planners and fleet engineers, this points to accelerating availability of Chinese-built battery trucks in the 220–350 t class for large open-pit operations.

De Beers has recorded the lowest safety incident rate in its 135-year history, reporting a total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) of 1.0 for 2025 across its global mining operations, improving on the previous year’s record low. The company attributes the performance to a strong “ownership” culture, with shared responsibility for risk controls and intensive frontline engagement in incident reporting and corrective actions. For geotechnical and mining teams, the figures signal that structured behavioural programmes and line-led safety leadership can materially reduce TRIFR even in high-risk, deep-level and open-pit environments.

BHP and Rio Tinto have formed a Tailings Management Consortium (TMC) and issued joint guidance focused on improving tailings dewatering and storage facility management. The collaboration targets higher degrees of dewatering to move operations away from conventional slurry dams towards safer, lower‑footprint options such as thickened, filtered or dry‑stacked tailings, in line with emerging global standards. Both miners state they will share operational learnings and design practices across industry, signalling more open benchmarking of tailings performance and risk controls.