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Modular Mining Systems has received a follow up order to replace a competitive fleet management system (FMS) with Modular’s Dispatch® FMS, at Vale’s Abóboras mine. Located 50 km from downtown Belo Horizonte in Nova Lima City, Abóboras comprises one-third of the Vargem Grande Complex, which also includes Vale’s Tamandua and Capitão do Mato operations. The[…]

Superior Industries plans to take full advantage of North America’s largest trade show with a display that includes more than two dozen new solutions for bulk processing and handling applications. At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017, the 45-year-old company will showcase its solutions within a 20,000 square foot booth inside the Las Vegas Convention Center’s Central Hall. “Compared[…]

Atlas Copco Rock Drills has been named coordinator of the European consortium on Sustainable Intelligent Mining Systems (SIMS). This mining industry initiative is funded by Horizon 2020, the biggest EU research and innovation program ever. Designed to drive sustainable economic growth, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the EU Parliament. You[…]

The pressure on organisations to minimise downtime and decrease expenditure is ever increasing and to many the essential, yet costly and time-consuming, area of conveyor belt maintenance is a challenging area. Monaflex says it has utilised 40 years of experience in the tyre repair industry to develop “a radical, lightweight conveyor belt maintenance system that[…]

Speed of installation and cost-effectiveness on a number of fronts makes Shaw Controls’ innovative electrical houses (E-Houses) a popular choice for contractors and other users, according to the company’s Managing Director Bevan Richards. An E-House is a prefabricated power distribution substation that is deployed to site as a fully assembled and integrated unit; they are[…]

Mohammad Sedighy,  Hatch‘s Principal Consultant, Electrotechnologies, notes the global estimate of 1.7 billion people living off-grid without any links to power utility systems of transmission lines and power stations. “In the developing world, a large number of such communities lack access to electricity altogether. And in some others, the electricity is generated locally. But the issue[…]

High capacity furnace and smelting plant specialist, Tenova Pyromet has announced that the 45 MVA submerged arc furnace for the Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) Chandrapur Ferro Alloy Plant (CFP) has been successfully switched in. Ramping up and tapping of the silicomanganese (SiMn) furnace, the largest in India, is in progress. Tenova Pyromet carried[…]

Eickhoff says the success story of its growing population of high performance shearer loaders in Bosnia has been bolstered by two new orders from the region. A recent delivery went to the customer Kakanj in Bosnia while in September a further contract was signed with the customer Zenica where the shearer will be deployed to[…]

The President of the Gabonese Republic, His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, has completed a state visit to the People’s Republic of China, from 6 to 9 December 2016, at the invitation of the Chinese President, His Excellency Xi Jinping. During the trip – Mr Bongo Ondimba’s first outside of Africa following his re-election and also[…]

Taking their mining research partnership to the next level, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) have established the Joint International Research Laboratory of China-Africa Mining Geospatial Informatics at a ceremony in Xuzhou, China recently. The collaboration, underway since January 2013, researches underground communication systems, risk measurement[…]