Archives: Communications in mining

According to a report in Peru’s Revista ProActivo, the Toquepala copper mine, located in the department of Tacna, continues to improve its technological infrastructure with the deployment of a new Huawei LTE network that will bring 4G connectivity to the operation and will allow it to be at the forefront of the use of new[…]

Nexa Resources, one of the five largest zinc mining companies in the world and part of Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim SA, is expanding its operations in entrepreneurship and innovation through an international partnership with the Israeli company IBI-Tech. Coupled with a model to foster open innovation, the partnership will allow the exchange of Israeli technologies, solutions,[…]

Ericsson has joined the EU-funded Next-Generation Carbon-Neutral Pilots for Smart Intelligent Mining Systems (NEXGEN SIMS) project. The three-year initiative aims to develop autonomous, carbon-neutral mining processes, with 5G connectivity playing a significant role. Comprising mining companies, equipment manufacturers, tech companies and universities, NEXGEN SIMS got underway on May 1, 2021. The project will pursue collaborative[…]

Construction and implementation of the Integrated Operations Centre (in Spanish Gestión Integrada de Operaciones or GIO) of Antofagasta Minerals’ Minera Centinela copper operation in the city of Antofagasta continues to advance. The project covers the digitisation and remoteisation of the operation and the integration of information systems to enable operation of all processes from a[…]

Axora says it is launching the world’s first international competition to discover new cost-saving digital technology for industrial companies, which can produce rapid benefits within a year. Quoting Reuters and FT sources, Axora highights that the metals & mining and oil & gas sectors have recently experienced budget cuts of 20% on average, driven by[…]

After a decade of success with its BLASTMAP™ blast planning software for surface application, Omnia Group company BME has released a version of this innovative solution for underground mining. According to Christiaan Liebenberg, BME’s Software Product Manager, phase 1 of the BLASTMAP™ Underground application caters for tunnelling and shaft designs. “This software allows the blaster[…]

The future of autonomy in mining is set to include much more open and interoperable platforms than exist today. And the evolution of fleet management systems or FMS as they are known in the industry is a key part of that – enabling mining customers to get the elusive “single source of the truth” across[…]

BT has announced it is upgrading the global network of leading commercial explosives and blasting systems provider Orica with the latest cloud-optimised technology and cyber security solutions. The upgrade is part of Orica’s digital transformation and will support the migration of applications and services to the cloud. The new managed network service, based on Cisco[…]

Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, along with Nokia have successfully completed testing of a private LTE/5G-ready wireless network deployed in one of the mines of the Skalisty nickel-copper-PGM mining enterprise at a depth of 875 m. The partners in this project were[…]

A strategic alliance formed between contractor Tapojärvi and Yara has selected Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions as the drilling technology supplier of choice for Yara’s Siilinjärvi mine. Sandvik will supply six new Pantera™ DP1600i drill rigs, leveraging Top Hammer XL technology. The rigs are remotely operated by the AutoMine® system and accompanied by a comprehensive[…]