Archives: Communications in mining

Maptek is looking back on its roots, 40 years after geologist Bob Johnson laid foundations for the company to become a leading provider of innovative software, hardware and services for the mining industry. In the mid-1970s, Johnson opened a small bureau service above a row of shops in suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to[…]

De Beers Group says it is rolling out the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) across its operations in southern African, following two phases that saw the technology installed on buses and any vehicles that carry four or more people. The world’s leading diamond producer places “Putting Safety First Everywhere” as its number one[…]

Exploration companies planning to cash in on the rush of capital into the mining sector risk losing out if they fail to take advantage of the latest tools to deliver real-time results from drilling programs, according to IMDEX. Exploration activity is on the up ‒ spurred on by strong commodity prices supported by government stimulus,[…]

In the lead up to the AusIMM Underground Operators Conference in March, Roy Slack, immediate past President of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and Underground Operators keynote speaker, has shared his insights on the future of underground mining and the positive impact technology can have on safety. With 35 years of[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions says it will deliver its AutoMine® Fleet system to automate a new fleet of Sandvik LHDs running at Codelco’s Pacifico Superior and Pilar Norte GTI operations, part of the El Teniente underground mine in Chile. This partnership, Sandvik says, supports Codelco’s vision to create one of the most sophisticated mines[…]

Brazilian telecoms company TIM hs closed an agreement with Anglo American to allow the expansion of 4G LTE coverage to five operational plants in Goiás, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, including its Barro Alto nickel and Minas-Rio iron ore mine and plant complexes, to enable the miner to up efficiency, plus allow the expansion[…]

Increased uptake of autonomous loading and hauling technology at the LaRonde (pictured) and Kittila gold mines has helped Agnico Eagle Mines post a record quarter of production for the last three months of 2020. Payable gold production in the fourth quarter of 2020 was 501,445 oz at all-in sustaining costs of $985/oz, the company reported.[…]

Speedcast International Ltd, a leading global communications and IT services provider, has launched a high-capacity very small aperture terminal (VSAT) service for Udinsk Gold LLC, a Far East Russia subsidiary of Canadian-based Kinross Gold Corporation – one of the world’s leading gold mining companies. The corporate networking solution connects a regional office in Magadan, Russia,[…]

RPMGlobal has upgraded its advanced mine scheduling software, XECUTE, with a Demand Chain Optimiser (DCO) module that optimises the flow of material required to satisfy customer orders all the way back to the mine for those mining bulk commodities. The company says it has been working with miners around the globe to bridge the gap[…]

As part of the contract supporting EVRAZ’s digital transformation program at the Sheregeshskaya underground iron ore mine in south-central Russia, Ericsson and Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) will deploy a commercial LTE/5G-ready private network built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution. The Sheregeshskaya mine is a pilot area for the digital transformation begun by EVRAZ in[…]