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Last year Dints secured a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) contract with a prominent African mining client, Gold Fields Ghana. Already live at the Tarkwa mine-site, Dints’ new VMI model tackles inefficiencies within the procurement, supply chain and inventory management functions. Combined with a tailored payment plan, Dints says it “is able to deliver client savings[…]

Scientists from the University of Exeter will lead a ground-breaking new collaborative research project to discover crucial new deposits of essential raw materials across Europe. The pioneering team, including geologists from the Camborne School of Mines, will devise new, state-of-the-art techniques to expose previously unknown underground resources essential to the manufacturing of many ‘high-tech’ products.[…]

Due to the pressures still facing the mining industry to reduce operating costs and enhance productivity, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions and Siemens have decided to prolong their successful collaboration in the mining sector for another five years. “This means the two companies can continue to provide the mining sector with innovative and reliable transport systems into[…]

Victaulic, leading manufacturer of mechanical pipe-joining systems, will be unveiling its new range of Refuse To-Fuse™ HDPE pipe-joining solutions at the Australian Coal Preparation Society Conference from March 13 to 17 in Wollongong, NSW. Visitors to the Victaulic booth will be introduced to the Installation-Ready™ Style 905 coupling for joining plain-end HDPE pipe. Victaulic will[…]

SRK Consulting’s four-decade anniversary book – SRK: 40 years in the deep end  captures a roller-coaster journey from SRK’s early days in 1970s South Africa to its global presence today – charting a course started by three young engineers with a zeal to do things differently and better. “Reliving SRK’s past through the stories in[…]

A gold mining operation required an HD camera for a borehole inspection. The basic requirements were that the camera to remain steady and centred, down a 760 m vertical borehole. Inuktun took on the task, the challenges of which were: Limits of sending data via copper tether Changing specifications Enhanced braking system required to handle[…]

David Duckworth of consulting company Saint Barbara notes that “the issue of high-arsenic (high-As) copper concentrates has been highlighted recently with the start-up of a number of new projects producing this material. “Copper concentrates can be divided into clean or complex types,” he writes in the company’s latest newsletter. ”The main impurities (deleterious or penalty[…]

Lithium Australia NL (LIT) has successfully developed a hydrometallurgical process, the Sileach™ process, for the recovery of lithium from spodumene, currently the primary source of hard-rock lithium production. The Sileach process is readily adaptable to other silicate minerals also and has been developed to reduce the cost of producing lithium chemicals from materials that have[…]

Dan Squire founded Drones Over Water last year in South Australia and has developed a sensor unit, which attaches to amphibious drones to allow the collection of samples from watercourses. He said the drones were highly efficient and could be used for collecting and testing samples from wastewater plants, tailings dams and other difficult to[…]

Haver & Boecker has added a refurbishment program to its breadth of services and equipment for mining. “The new program gives customers the opportunity to save as much as 40% over buying new while having the assurance that their refurbished machines will operate at peak capacity.” “As an industry leader, we offer our customers an[…]