News Archive

February 2014
20 Feb 2014
More than 30% extra service life from new Sandvik drill rods and tubes
Sandvik has released its new +Range of surface mining drill rods and tubes, featuring a...
20 Feb 2014
High tonnage X-ray (HTX) diamond recovery gains traction in South Africa
The ability to treat high tonnages of diamond-bearing ore using X-ray diamond recovery technology has...
20 Feb 2014
PDAC congratulates the Government of Canada on its Economic Action Plan 2014
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) congratulated the Canadian government on its Economic...
20 Feb 2014
New Parker Hannifin low voltage motors for mobile hydraulic applications
Parker Hannifin, the motion and control technologies supplier, has introduced the MC Series of low...
19 Feb 2014
Why the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame?
We have been asked this question by a number of newspapers around the world wishing...
19 Feb 2014
Falling gold prices forcing companies to recalculate reserves
A 15% year-on-year drop in the average annual gold price in 2013 is forcing gold...
19 Feb 2014
SKF TKDT 10 enables fast, effective temperature measurement
SKF has launched a new condition monitoring thermometer that it says meets a need for...
19 Feb 2014
Walter Energy longwall shearers for Eickhoff
Eickhoff Corp, a subsidiary of the Eickhoff Group, has announced that it has received an order...
18 Feb 2014
BelAZ-75710 dumper truck powered by Siemens driving gear lays a claim to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records
BelAZ-75710, the world’s largest mining two-axle all-wheel-drive rear-dump truck with weight-carrying capacity of 450 t...
18 Feb 2014
DRA and ELB to redefine large-scale materials handling in Africa
Recently DRA Group CEO, Paul Thomson and ELB Group CEO, Stephen Meijers, announced The ARDBEL...
18 Feb 2014
Komatsu extends Hybrid benefits to 35 t excavator class
Komatsu has globally released the HB335LC-1, a 35 t version of its award-winning Hybrid excavator....
18 Feb 2014
Guardvant introduces new mobile router for mine comms flexibility
Mining technology company Guardvant has released the Guardvant Mobile Router (GMR) which provides multiple communications...