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.

Hitachi Construction Machinery and Australian autonomy specialist Pronto have signed a global memorandum of understanding to develop open-architecture mine automation for haul trucks and other mobile equipment. The partnership targets interoperable fleet control, collision avoidance and autonomous haulage that can integrate with mixed OEM fleets rather than locking sites into proprietary ecosystems. For mine operators, this signals more flexible retrofit options for existing Hitachi and non-Hitachi fleets, with potential to phase in autonomy on brownfield haul roads and benches without full system replacement.

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.