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Australian based cloud integrator SXiQ has delivered a multi-million-dollar project to migrate Orica, an Australian-based multinational corporation that is one of the world’s largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining industry, from multiple datacentres around the world into the Cloud. Orica’s impetus for change arose from several key business challenges, including:[…]

Mining equipment monitoring and automation solutions provider, MineWare has developed the mining industry’s first AI-based drill automation platform, Phoenix AI, to optimise aftermarket blasthole drill operations. Phoenix AI Product Manager Curtis Stacy said the intuitive, interoperable platform features an advanced layer of AI to mitigate common drilling faults and improve performance. “Compatible with all blasthole[…]

Jubilee Metals Group, the AIM and Altx traded metals processing company, has announced that it has executed a processing agreement whereby Jubilee has been appointed as operator to re-commission and operate the existing run of mine chrome beneficiation plant adjacent to its Inyoni Operations. The processing agreement is backed by a guaranteed supply of a[…]

Wolff Mining, part of the National Group, is well-known in the Australian mining industry for its implementation and optimisation of semi-autonomous tractor system (SATS) technology. In association with Caterpillar on their Cat Command for Dozing module, Wolff Mining’s technology is a world’s-first application into a mining production environment, providing the ability for one operator to[…]

Process IQ recently opened a new office in Toronto, Canada to accommodate rapid growth in the process automation and digital transformation in the mining and minerals processing industry. Process IQ focuses on delivering process optimisation to the mining and mineral processing industry to help with increasing throughout recovery and efficiency. In addition to the corporate[…]

Trevali Mining has reported positive results from the NI43-101 Pre-Feasibility Study at its 90%-owned Rosh Pinah zinc-lead-silver mine in Namibia. The PFS is based on a scenario to expand the current throughput from 0.7 Mt/y to 1.3 Mt/y through the modification of the processing plant, construction of a paste fill plant, and development of a[…]

Vale and Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group have held a ceremony at NZP Group’s headquarters, located in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China to celebrate the inauguration of the Shulanghu Grinding Hub. Located in the Shulanghu Ore Transfer Terminal, in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, the Grinding Hub is the first grinding hub of Vale in China, having three[…]

AVEVA Group PLC, a global leader in industrial software, announces that it has reached agreement on the terms of an acquisition of OSIsoft, at an enterprise value of $5.0 billion. AVEVA is in turn 60% held indirectly by Schneider Electric. Founded in 1980 by Dr J. Patrick Kennedy, OSIsoft is a global leader in real-time[…]

On August 8, seven NTE240 electric-wheeled mining trucks made by Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co (NHL) left Tianjin Port and set sail for Europe. This will be the first time that China’s large mining trucks will have entered the European market, representing another historic breakthrough for NHL after it recently completed its first[…]

BME, a member of the Omnia Group, says it has broken the South African record for the largest electronic detonator blast, initiating 3,780 detonators in a single blast at a manganese mine near Hotazel in the Northern Cape. BME says it has pioneered the use of cold emulsion explosives in Africa and innovated a range[…]