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Minemax says it is pleased to announce the release of the all-new Tempo for developing practical detailed plans. Tempo has been redesigned based on extensive industry collaboration to address the challenges of translating strategic plans into operational plans. “We’ve talked to many mine planners out there who put a lot of effort into developing high-value[…]

Leveraging the advantages of a containerised solution, Zest WEG Group company Shaw Controls has provided an optimal medium voltage switchgear solution for the supply of power at a copper mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The WEG MTW05 MV switchgear, the first to be supplied by Shaw Controls into a mining project in[…]

Heron Resource’s Woodlawn zinc-copper project has selected IsaMill™ technology. The project is 220 km southwest of Sydney, at the site of the former Woodlawn mine, which has reclaimed tailings and underground mineral reserves. Des O’Sullivan, Process Manager at Heron Resources commented the project needed a versatile and proven fine grinding technology at the site, as[…]

Albemarle Corp, a leader in the production of lithium and lithium derivatives, has developed an innovative technology that could enable Albemarle to sustainably increase total lithium production in Chile to as much as 125,000 t/y of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE), without the need for additional brine pumping at the Salar de Atacama. As a result[…]

Already popular in North America and Europe, dry-type transformers will soon be seeing greater take-up in Africa through a more concerted entry and support strategy from global leader Hammond Power Solutions (HPS). According to Andrea Giacometti, Regional Sales Manager of HPS Europe, the company’s recent acquisition of key technology pioneers Euroelettro Hammond and Marnate Trasformatori[…]

FLSmidth is further entrenching its Africa footprint with the opening of a new subsidiary company in Accra, the capital of Ghana. According to Deon de Kock, FLSmidth Country Head in South Africa and vice president in Sub-Saharan Africa, the move has been made in response to the company’s critical mass of product in the region,[…]

Wenco International Mining Systems will be demonstrating interoperability between Wenco Readyline and the Lumada IoT platform at this year’s Hitachi NEXT conference, running September 18-20 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Readyline is Wenco’s preventive maintenance solution that captures mining equipment sensor and alarm data, analyses it, and stores it onsite or in the cloud.[…]

Sandvik is introducing AutoMineTM Tele-Remote for underground loaders, a new smart entry-level addition to its industry-leading AutoMine product family. AutoMine Tele-Remote provides an easy way to start exploring the full potential of Sandvik equipment automation while improving productivity, safety and cost efficiency in mining operations. The new AutoMine Tele-Remote provides functionality for smart teleoperation and[…]

INTMET is a European funded project titled Integrated innovative metallurgical system to benefit efficiently polymetallic, complex and low-grade ores and concentrates (http://www.intmet.eu). It focuses – as the titles indicates – on the difficult task to recover valuable metal from low-grade and complex ores. It  aims to develop three innovative hydrometallurgical processes (atmospheric, pressure and bioleaching),[…]

Emerson is launching the DeltaV PK Controller, making the advanced automation of its DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) available to fast-growth industries traditionally less reliant on large-scale automation. The next-gen controller provides scalable automation control to all process industries, particularly parts of industry that have relied on complex, non-integrated programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with limited[…]