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WEG says it has supplied two M Mining slip ring motors to mining company Mineração Vale Verde to drive the main mill of a 4 Mt/y plant at its Serrote copper operation in Alagoas, Brazil. The M Mining slip ring motors come with a power output of 5,400 kW and rated voltage of 13,800 V.[…]

When reviewing the rapid growth of interest in remote control operation of surface mining equipment, it’s worth looking back over eight years ago to when HARD-LINE’s TeleOp control systems were deployed on several heavy-duty machines at Codelco’s Mina Sur copper mine in Chile. Codelco’s innovation strategy involves transferring and adapting existing technologies and developing new[…]

Uptake recently announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process company, to deliver industrial intelligence for the utilities, chemical processing, mining and oil and gas industries. The partnership merges Uptake’s advanced analytics software with Wipro’s consulting and implementation services to equip asset-intensive operators with[…]

No less than 501 scrap large mining tyres, each about 11 ft tall and 5 ft wide, were recently removed from Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands mining operation north of Fort McMurray, Alberta and brought to the Liberty Tire LLC recycling facility in Legal, north of Edmonton, in a project managed and executed by Kal[…]

Austria’s 3GSM says its new 3D fragmentation package BMX Fragmenter works well for drone imagery that shows muckpiles of surface blasts but that it also delivers also good results in underground applications. In ongoing tests LKAB is using it via a detachable camera/lights installation on the crown of drifts to image passing LHDs. The camera[…]

Mining drive solutions supplier WEG has announced Nokia’s entry into its Open Lab WEG/V2COM project which is aimed at accelerating and enabling the development of Industry 4.0 solutions in Brazil, with the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) platform. Open Lab WEG/V2COM has a partnership with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) and Anatel, and[…]

Faced with the challenge of boosting productivity and lowering costs, Chile-based copper miner Pucobre has teamed up with Epiroc to implement the first Rapid Mine Development (RMD) project in the country. Combining technology and changes in mindset to build high-quality mine infrastructure, the company is now on a path to become a 4.0 mine, Epiroc[…]

A focus on improving ease of operation to provide more efficient and safer Articulated Dump Trucks (ADTs) has consistently kept Bell Equipment at the forefront of innovation, the company says. The global ADT specialist says it is now achieving success with autonomous vehicle operation where its forward-thinking approach is enabling interoperability between different control systems[…]

SK Godelius has officially inaugurated its office in Northern Ontario in January 2021, within the NORCAT Underground Centre, located in Sudbury. The NORCAT Underground Centre provides SK Godelius with the valuable opportunity to test and evaluate emerging technologies in an operating mine. SK Godelius, founded in 2011, opened its first Canadian office in Toronto in[…]

Rio Tinto has to date awarded contracts valued at over $385 million (A$500 million) to local Western Australian and Pilbara Aboriginal businesses to support the latest development of its Greater Tom Price Operations. Construction of the Western Turner Syncline Phase 2 (WTS2) expansion commenced in early 2020 and to date more than 85% of spending[…]