Archives: Careers in mining

Rio Tinto has appointed Chief Financial Officer, Jakob Stausholm, as its new Chief Executive, effective January 1, 2021. He replaces outgoing company head Jean-Sébastien Jacques. Since joining Rio as an Executive Director and CFO in 2018, Stausholm has played a leading role in the group’s strong performance, maintaining capital allocation discipline and delivering significant shareholder[…]

With in-person training curtailed for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19 restrictions, Martin Engineering says it has developed an extensive array of tools to continue its tradition of educating those who maintain, manage and design conveyors for industrial operations. The result is a wide range of globally-available options to help improve safety and efficiency, reduce[…]

Mining engineering students at Montana Technological University are testing bolt integrity when loaded using a Ground Support Pull Test Kit and Swellex bolts donated by Epiroc. The Montana Tech mining engineering program provides students with education, access to cutting-edge labs and participation in leading research, Epiroc says. The school has the only on-campus underground mine[…]

The United States and Greenland are advancing mutual commitments to sound mineral sector governance through technical engagement with the Greenland School of Minerals and Petroleum (KTI Råstofskolen, or KTI). The US Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) signed a $1.2 million cooperative agreement with the University of Utah to support the development of[…]

German continuous mining, bulk handling and IPCC technologies major FAM GmbH based in Magdeburg has opened a new office in Brazil, as part of its commodity diversification and organic growth strategy. With this important strategic step, FAM says it is now able to further support its key customers located in Brazil. The new office, established[…]

Nordgold, the internationally diversified gold producer, has equipped its new West Africa Training Centre, located near the Lefa mine in Guinea, with a CYBERMINE Full-Mission Simulator. The simulator is a training tool for mining fleet operators designed to improve their skills in safe and efficient manipulation of modern mining equipment. The West Africa Training Centre,[…]

New surface autonomous mining truck trials seem to pop up on an almost monthly basis, and not just new “autonomous” machines. Fleet retrofits of older models are cropping up, as are mixed AHS fleets (both in terms of truck brands and types but also mixed AHS and conventional truck fleets) and solutions from other players[…]

Sandvik and Ontario’s Northern College have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to, they say, work collaboratively to enhance existing battery technician training modules, and develop a new program to educate service technicians and support the growing requirement for specialised battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technicians in the mining industry. The Northern College Battery Electric Vehicle[…]

Murray & Roberts Cementation has further enhanced its training facilities in South Africa to develop scarce skills in modern underground mining. The well-known Murray & Roberts Training Academy (MRTA) at Bentley Park near Carletonville, in Gauteng, now boasts a specialised Engineering Training Centre for trackless mining machinery (TMM). According to Tony Pretorius, Education, Training and[…]

There have been a lot of misleading press reports in English in mining as well as general publications that seem to suggest that a recent deal struck between the Polish Ministry of State Assets and the Silesian branches of the coal miners’ Solidarity union translates to the end of all underground hard coal mining in[…]