The forthcoming December 2017 issue of International Mining features comment and high level interviews from the top executives responsible for the mining and metals sector at Bechtel, Wood and Fluor, three of the top global players in the Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM) and EPC market – the companies that design, develop and build most[…]
Ivanhoe Mines Executive Chairman Robert Friedland and Chief Executive Officer Lars-Eric Johansson this week announced that the Kamoa-Kakula mine development team has celebrated the first blast marking the start of work on the twin declines at the ultra-high-grade Kakula Copper Discovery on the company’s Tier One Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project, near the mining centre of Kolwezi[…]
October 2017 saw a record deployment for GroundProbe’s South African Business Unit with six industry-leading, Series-3 Slope Stability Radars (SSR) delivered to Debswana OLDM – Orapa, Damtshaa and Letlhakane Mines – in Botswana. The six Series-3 radars were comprised of: two SSR-XT replacements at Letlhakane DK1 pit, one SSR-FX replacement at Orapa, one new SSR-FX[…]
Wits University strengthened its partnership with the mining firm, Gold Fields this week, with a ZAR6 million sponsorship to improve knowledge in the fields of mechanised mining and rock engineering. The funding follows on a long-standing partnership of over 10 years, in which Golf Fields sponsored the Wits School of Mining Engineering with ZAR18 million.[…]
On remote Aniolam Island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea, about 900 km or two hours flight from Port Moresby, Newcrest Mining extracts gold from one of the world’s largest known deposits of the precious metal. Its Lihir mine excavates within the geothermally active caldera of an extinct volcano, yet one of[…]
In an article in the December issue of International Mining, John Chadwick looks at some of the latest ideas in training and the growing global simulator population. In particular he considers the Murray & Roberts Training Academy (MRTA) in South Africa that is becoming a world leader. There is also news of Fortescue Metals Group’s[…]
Lundin Gold Inc has been recognized by the United Nations Global Compact Networks of Colombia and Ecuador at the Best Practice Awards for Sustainable Development for its work undertaken jointly with the Lundin Foundation and Catering Las Peñas (CLP), the supplier of food preparation, cleaning and laundry services to the company’s Fruta del Norte gold[…]
While there is much that differentiates Canada from the continent of Africa, there are a remarkable number of similarities relating to the environment in which mining takes place, according to Joe Keenan, Managing Director of the South Africa-based explosives leader BME. Having established itself over the past 30 years as the largest provider of explosives[…]
SKF‘s Gothenburg factory has produced the company’s largest sealed spherical roller bearing (SRB) to date. The ‘241/900’ SRB is 50% larger and three times heavier than the previous largest SKF sealed SRB. Destined for a Polysius Polycom 8 roller press at a large copper mine in Peru, the 3 t 241/900 sealed SRB is dimensionally[…]
The Mine.D: Zero Harm hackathon, hosted by the Tshimologong Precinct and the Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS), has announced the three overall winners of the digitally-inspired hackathon. Focused on Mixed Reality (MR) and Internet of Things (IoT) within the health and safety space of the mining sector, the teams that entered were exposed[…]