Archives: Communications in mining

Gold Fields is upping the safety stakes at its Tarkwa gold mine in Ghana, employing a collision avoidance system (CAS) that should reduce the number of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-personnel interactions at the open-pit operation. Having installed a fatigue management system back in 2012-2013 – which saw equipment interactions and accidents decrease – the company has[…]

ABB working with Claro and Nokia has recently tested telematics using satellite connectivity between the Gold Fields’ Salares Norte gold mining project located near Copiapo at 4,700 m above sea level and Chilean capital Santiago, some 1,200 km away. The tests showed that it is possible to connect technologies located thousands of kilometres away, with[…]

Chile’s copper mining company Codelco has announced its first pilot with 5G technology consisting of the installation of a high definition camera in Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic Division, which is connected to a 5G network and transmits real time video of the crushing area of ​​this mine to the new Centro Integrado de Operaciones Estrategico (CIO-E)[…]

Cyient, a global engineering, manufacturing, and digital transformation and technology solutions company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Decipher, a Perth-based company that provides a cloud monitoring and governance platform for tailing storage facilities. As per the MoU, Cyient will support Decipher with the global rollout of its cloud mining platform for tailings[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology says it has devised the most comprehensive solution for optimising underground hard-rock mining production and processes with new OptiMine® functionality. Continuing the development of this platform, the newest OptiMine modules expand the existing offering focused on increasing productivity and improving safety, the company says. The new functionalities include smart scheduling,[…]

De Beers Group has ordered 19 units of high-tech equipment from Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology for its Venetia Underground Project (VUP), in South Africa. According to Simon Andrews, Managing Director at Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology Southern Africa, the company will supply a range of intelligent equipment including LHDs, ADTs, twin-boom drill rigs, roof[…]

Intent on “mastering the latest technologies” in its domain, Mobilaris says it will focus on the use of next-generation communication technologies such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6, and artificial intelligence, to build out its new safety solutions in 2021. Mobilaris says it is building a device using 5G technologies that will be used in a[…]

Geoscience software company Seequent has revealed major updates to its mining portfolio, focused on improving user’s productivity to solve their geoscience challenges and further enabling connectivity and collaboration between users and their stakeholders. Included in this major release are updates to Leapfrog® Geo for 3D geological modelling and visualisation, Leapfrog Edge for resource modelling, and[…]

Banlaw has announced the launch of Banlaw On-Board (BOB), a portable device that, it says, enables mine sites to automatically capture and analyse usage and consumption data for every fuel-consuming asset. “Currently, data collection is a manual process that is time consuming, requires a different method for each type of mining equipment and is prone[…]

After three years of collaboration, Epiroc and Combitech’s traffic management solution for autonomous loaders at underground mines is coming to fruition. In 2017, Epiroc and Combitech started to work on this technological leap. Together, they have combined technology from Epiroc and SAAB’s civilian product portfolio with knowledge of the way traffic management is to be[…]