On Feb. 16, the Polish coal mining company Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. smashed the world record for daily production from a plow-equipped longwall, with an output of 24,400 tonnes of coal from a single face, Caterpillar Inc. has reported. The company commissioned the first Cat® longwall system at its Bogdanka mine, near Lublin in...
Allied Nevada Gold Corp. has received offers from three entities for $300 million in mobile equipment financing for the big expansion of its Hycroft gold/silver mine in Nevada. It also said this afternoon that it has begun ordering long-lead mobile and fixed equipment. Allied Nevada said it has received offers from Caterpillar Financial Services...
Caterpillar has introduced its new 789D Mining Truck, which incorporates new features to boost performance and productivity and to enhance safety and serviceability. A number of new options provide customers the flexibility to configure the truck for each application, the company said. The 789D builds on more than 25 years of proven performance for the...
Caterpillar recently produced its 50,000th rigid-frame off-highway truck — a milestone achieved at the Decatur, Ill., plant where such trucks have been produced since 1963. No. 50,000 is a 777F, a versatile 100-ton-capacity (91-tonne-capacity) truck that sees application in heavy construction, quarry and aggregates and mining. “Today, our large mining trucks are moving more...
