Archives: Careers in mining

The inaugural Truck & Shovel conference is now just over seven weeks away and the stage is set for an exciting event looking into the future of the global loading and haulage industry. With topics such as automation, digitalisation, fleet management, and tyre and fuel optimisation on the agenda, there will be much to discuss[…]

Epiroc says it has donated a COP 1238K rock drill to the Excavation Engineering and Earth Mechanics Institute (EMI) at the Colorado School of Mines in the US. The COP 1238K hydraulic rock drill for tunnelling and drifting applications updates testing equipment at EMI, the largest independent rock drilling and excavation research facility in the[…]

Immersive Technologies says it has engaged in an “unprecedented level” of mining machine simulator development for a diverse range of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) over the past year. This trend is set to continue with projects underway for new and existing customers to build simulators for heavy machinery manufactured by BELAZ, Caterpillar, Epiroc, Hitachi, Iveco,[…]

Mining students from the Wits School of Mining Engineering, with the support of Gold Fields, are building South Africa’s capacity to apply mechanised mining methods and supporting technologies in deep-level gold mines, according to the institution. In a three-year partnership, supported by a R6-million ($425,056) Gold Fields grant in 2017, a range of research projects[…]

As an OEM-agnostic facilitator of autonomous solutions, RCT has vast experience in training up personnel and companies on how to best use this technology. Training Coordinator, Sunil Kumar, shares his thoughts on the subject. Across the global mining industry there is an ever increasing take-up of smart technology. Gone are the days where miners worked[…]

Komatsu Ltd, through its wholly owned subsidiary in Australia, has agreed to acquire global mining technology and workforce optimisation firm Immersive Corporation Pty Ltd (Immersive Technologies), which specialises in increasing mine profitability by optimising the safety and productivity of equipment operators, on the condition that all necessary procedures for closing are completed. “Retaining its headquarters[…]

Rio Tinto has welcomed the introduction of Australia’s first nationally recognised qualifications in automation at the South Metropolitan TAFE Technical and Further Education institution, in Fremantle, Western Australia. The course will provide workers in the resources sector and others looking to join it, with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in an increasingly science,[…]

At the APCOM 2019 conference in Wroclaw, Poland, Rudolf Suppes and Yannick Feldmann from the Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering (MRE), part of RWTH Aachen University, presented the latest info on its VR-Mine project. Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming increasingly popular in different domains such as industrial training, academic research and tertiary education. For prospective[…]

Immersive Technologies says it has seen strong demand from mining companies in Russia for its tailored workforce development solutions as equipment sales have risen in the past six years. The proportion of global mining equipment being deployed in Russia was 22% in 2018, compared with 9% in 2012, with regional growth of 13% over the[…]

The Centre de formation professionnelle de la Baie-James (CFPBJ), in Quebec, Canada, says it has inaugurated a new mining equipment simulator as it looks to improve training facilities for its students. The acquisition of this tool for mining sector training was made possible through initial funding for CFPBJ’s ore extraction study program, it said. In[…]