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BLG Machinery heavy equipment staged on site at dusk

BLG Machinery, the Group’s heavy equipment division

Heavy equipment, at Group scale.

Owning, operating and maintaining a modern fleet of articulated dump trucks, hydraulic excavators and wheel loaders, backed by partnership with global manufacturers.

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Overview

Owned. Operated. Maintained.

BLG Machinery underpins the Group’s mining and development operations, and is structured to extend its services to external partners. Our equipment is owned outright, operated by our crews and maintained on Group terms, which means uptime, accountability and a unit-economic edge that contract fleets cannot match.

Our fleet is anchored by 2025-model DEVELON heavy equipment and is supported by a strategic partnership with Doosan Equipment for future acquisitions. The combination gives the Group access to current-generation machinery and the supply relationship to scale as our pipeline grows.

Aerial view of the BLG Machinery fleet staged on site
Fleet on site, aerial survey

Services

Equipment that earns its keep.

Fleet Operations

End-to-end operation of our owned equipment across Group mining sites: loading, hauling and earthworks at scale.

Maintenance & Uptime

In-house and partner-backed maintenance designed to keep utilisation high and unplanned downtime low.

OEM Partnerships

Direct relationships with DEVELON and Doosan Equipment support parts supply, technical backup and future acquisitions.

GPS Dispatch & Match-Factor

Fleet management with GPS dispatch and load match-factor optimisation, the same standard used across Group mining operations.

Third-Party Support

Where capacity allows, the Group’s machinery and operating crews are available to third-party operators on a contract basis.

Operator Training

Crew development and operator training to make sure every machine performs as well as the day it was delivered.

The Fleet

Deployed across the Group’s projects.

Articulated haul trucks, hydraulic excavators, front-end loaders, Metso crushers and processing plants make up the Group’s machinery on the ground across chrome and copper operations, with the Doosan partnership backing forward acquisitions.

EquipmentClassQtyDeployment
Articulated Dump TruckDEVELON DA45 · 40-tonne7Chrome Mining · Supply
Hydraulic Excavator100-tonne class1Chrome Mining · Supply
Hydraulic Excavator80-tonne class1Chrome Mining · Supply
Hydraulic Excavator50-tonne class1Chrome Mining · Supply
Hydraulic Excavator30-tonne class1Chrome Processing · Supply
Front End Loader420-class FEL1Chrome Processing · Supply
Jaw CrusherMetso1Chrome Processing · Supply
Cone CrusherMetso1Chrome Processing · Supply
Hydraulic Excavator45-tonne class1Copper Mining · Group Operations
Front End LoaderWheel loader1Copper Mining · Group Operations
Crushing Plant3-stage1Copper Processing · Group Operations
Processing PlantLeach SX/EW1Copper Processing · Group Operations
The BLG Machinery DEVELON fleet lined up on site
The DEVELON fleet, owned outright, run by Group crewsBLG Machinery

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