Metso will supply an additional secondary crushing package to Grupo Mexico’s La Caridad copper concentrator in Nacozari, Sonora, building on the high-capacity Nordberg MP800 cone crushers ordered in 2025 as the next phase of the plant’s expansion. The integrated secondary crushing solution is designed to materially raise concentrator throughput, with the MP800 units providing high power draw and large feed opening suited to La Caridad’s hard copper ore. For plant and process engineers, the upgrade centres on debottlenecking downstream grinding and improving overall comminution circuit efficiency.

Hawk Measurement Systems has launched the Senator H80 Radar Series, an 80 GHz FMCW radar level transmitter range targeting liquid, slurry and bulk solids measurement in mining and process plants. The high-frequency 80 GHz signal improves resolution and narrow beam focusing, allowing reliable level measurement in tall, narrow vessels, dusty silos and agitated slurry tanks where 6–26 GHz radars often struggle. For operators, the series offers a single radar platform that can standardise level control across thickeners, sumps, reagent tanks and ore bins, simplifying spares and calibration practice.

PYBAR Mining Services, a Thiess company, has fired the first cut on an exploration decline portal at Southern Cross Gold’s Sunday Creek gold–antimony project in Victoria, marking the first new decline development in the state in about 20 years. The decline will provide underground access for close-spaced drilling of high-grade gold–stibnite veins rather than relying solely on surface drilling. For geotechnical and mine planning teams, this signals a shift towards underground evaluation of Victorian narrow-vein systems after a long hiatus in new decline development.