Metso has expanded its Metso Digital portfolio with three new platforms – Digital Production Management, Data-driven Performance Analytics and Safety Performance Platform – aimed at turning plant and fleet data into actionable production and safety decisions. Digital Production Management targets end-to-end throughput optimisation across crushing, grinding and downstream circuits, while Data-driven Performance Analytics applies advanced analytics to equipment condition and process KPIs. The Safety Performance Platform centralises incident, near-miss and behavioural data to support risk control and compliance in large, multi-site mining operations.

Innovative Wireless Technologies (IWT) has been selected for negotiation of a US Department of Energy award to lead the Mine of the Future: Proving Ground Initiative, a national programme to accelerate advanced mining technologies. The initiative will focus on development, testing and deployment of new systems in operating US mines, creating dedicated proving-ground sites rather than relying on ad hoc pilots. For geotechnical and operations teams, this signals forthcoming funded trials of next-generation communications, sensing and automation platforms under real production conditions.

MLG Oz has secured a three-year extension to its haulage and site services contract at Ora Banda Mining’s Davyhurst gold project in Western Australia, expected to generate about A$16 million per year in revenue. The scope covers continuous 24/7 operations, including ore and waste haulage, likely involving high-capacity road trains on regional haul roads and intensive load–haul cycles between pit, ROM pad and processing plant. For mine planners and contractors, the deal signals stable medium-term demand for bulk logistics capacity and sustained production scheduling at Davyhurst.