Hauling iron ore across Australia’s outback pays some 400 engineers about $224,000 per year, but the gravy train is coming to an end thanks to robots. International mining giant Rio Tinto Group plans ...

Hard rock mining company Fortescue Williams has adopted electric trains that can generate enough power to never need recharging. The company recently explained that four of its trains can generate ...

Fortescue Infinity Train made its first 685 mile trip from Perth to the Pilbara, marking a major milestone in decarbonization.

Riverbank and Oakdale officials are keeping their eyes on a plan to open a quarry in Tuolumne County. The focus of their concern: the trains that would haul the crushed rock from the open-pit mine and ...

Why do you think the calculation of braking effort is different because you have greater mass. Why do you think having more of the same monitors on the couplings and brakes scales in complexity?

On Monday, Australian authorities intentionally derailed a runaway mining train that escaped the control of its operator. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau outlined the incident in a report ...

DELTA, Colo. – On the Western Slope of Colorado – like many other communities across the country – sits a county where coal mining has employed thousands of people for the past century. However, in ...

It took less than a week for a historic mining train to be vandalised following its return to Lochore Meadows.

There is an alarming disconnect between the Biden administration’s rhetoric on America’s minerals challenge and the policy needed to address it. The mismatch between soaring mineral demand and our ...

Research by the University of California, Davis found that trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest ...

On Friday, major mining corporation Rio Tinto announced that its AutoHaul autonomous train system in Western Australia had logged more than 1 million km (620,000 mi) since July 2018, S&P Global Platts ...