First Quantum Minerals and Hitachi Construction Machinery have commissioned the world’s first ultra-large battery electric mining truck, a fully electric Hitachi EH4000, at the Kansanshi copper-gold mine in Zambia. The truck operates without a diesel engine, using a large-format battery system and electric drive to cut on-site fuel consumption and associated CO₂ emissions. Deployment at Kansanshi provides a full-scale test bed for trolley-assist integration, high-current charging infrastructure and duty-cycle optimisation on ultra-class haul routes.

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.