With an ethos of ‘built to last, designed to perform’, crusher and screening manufacturer Keestrack knew it needed robust engines to service its machines, and recently turned to Volvo Penta to help achieve its aims. The company switched from using other producers’ products to ordering Volvo Penta’s 8-, 13- and 16-litre diesel engines, for its[…]
Santasalo will present its recently launched AMF gear series at the upcoming CIM Convention in Vancouver, from May 1-3, 2016. After launching the AMF Series in February this year, Santasalo says it has seen great interest worldwide for the gear series and continues to maximise exposure of the products to global industries such as mining[…]
Companies like Tesla have fuelled the frenzy over lithium in the natural resources sector as consumers demand increased functionality and development of lithium-based products leading to rapid growth opportunities for certain mining and exploration companies and operations. International Mining Project News is full of such project details. Contact emma@ im-mining.com for details. Companies in focus[…]
Dassault Systèmes has announced the release of the latest version of GEOVIA InSite™, designed to help mining organisations gain control of their mine production management by increasing the confidence in mining operations’ ability to meet production targets, manage costs, and improve efficiencies. With an overhauled interactive graphical user interface, InSite 4.6 features a fully customisable[…]
Ore sorting is one of the subjects covered in the May issue of International Mining. A. Donahue; Marketing, General Kinematics, pointed out at this year’s SME Conference (paper entitled Vibrating Feeders for Enhanced Recovery) that there is an often overlooked feeder in front of the optical sorters. He reports that GK’s High Stroke Feeder (HSF)[…]
The fall in coal prices in recent years has placed immense pressure on industry to maintain production and high levels of safety whilst dramatically reining in costs. Operational improvements and rationalisation has allowed many operations to reset their cost base, however those operations which wish to thrive in the current oversupplied market will need to[…]
Mogensen’s MSort scans ore in free fall by means of a colour line camera. The respective data is evaluated by freely programmable sorting software of an industrial computer by colour, brightness and size into good product and rejects. The computer passes this information to up to 400 fast and robust compressed air valves, each of[…]
HELLA has established the CAB Concept Cluster through collaboration with other renowned suppliers and well-respected scientists in the construction machine industry in 2015 with the objective of developing a high-tech concept CAB for original equipment manufacturers. The Genius CAB was developed by joining together the core competencies of the individual cluster partners, and was presented[…]
This, the 10th in the MEI series, was held at the Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, in consultation with Prof Aubrey Mainza, of University of Cape Town, and was sponsored by Keramos, Starkey & Associates, Magotteaux, King’s Ceramics & Chemicals, Crush Force, Grinding Solutions, Industrie Bitossi, TOMS, ZEISS, FLSmidth, Cenotec, CITIC Heavy Industries, Outotec, Russell Mineral[…]
Outotec has been awarded a contract by Houndé Gold Operation SA, a subsidiary of Endeavour Mining Corporation, for the delivery of process equipment to the greenfield Houndé gold project in Burkina Faso. Outotec’s contract value is approximately €13 million and the order has been booked in the second quarter 2016 order intake. Outotec’s scope of[…]