Archives: Communications in mining

IMDEX says interest in its cloud-connected technologies has spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, the positive effect of which will flow through for the next 10 years. There has been strong interest in IMDEX’s software technologies including IMDEX HUB-IQ™, IMDEX MUD AID™ and IMDEX IoGas™, it said, with registrations for webinars on digital workflow and training[…]

Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM) is looking at trialling autonomous ultra-large hydraulic excavators at an Australia mine site as part of a series of verification tests. The tests, set to begin from the start of the 2021 financial year (from April 1, 2021), are geared towards improving future mining site safety and productivity, HCM said. “The[…]

Back in 2017 when it was soon expecting to commercially apply its mining truck haulage automation system, Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM) made the bold claim that it had “commenced development of an autonomous haulage system (AHS) that will leapfrog over current market offerings”. With trials of the technology at its first mine site concluded and[…]

Ramjack Technology Solutions, a specialised system integrator for advanced technologies in the global mining market, has announced a partnership with Syntony GNSS, a pioneer in the design and manufacture of software-based navigation and GPS coverage extension. The statement said that Syntony innovations extend GPS coverage into previously inaccessible spaces, giving mining operations “relentlessly reliable connectivity.[…]

Technology services provider to the mining industry, 3D-P, says remote work and cost cutting can affect the performance of the wireless networks mines rely on for their operations: “Allocated budget might be postponed, personnel count reduced, yet your operations need to perform more efficiently than ever.” One option 3D-P offers is providing a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)[…]

RCT says it has completed its latest automation and control project for a major mining company at one of its iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The autonomous solutions specialist supplied and commissioned its ControlMaster® Line of Sight solution on one Caterpillar D10T2 dozer and one Cat D11T dozer and the associated remote[…]

The latest release of MICROMINE’s fleet management and mine control solution, Pitram 4.17, is set to take data management to the “next level”, the company says. Currently the fleet management and mine control solution of choice for more than 58 mining operations across six continents, according to MICROMINE, the latest version has plenty more to[…]

The Future of Resource Taxation is a new initiative aiming to improve the way governments collect revenue from the mining sector, specifically in developing countries needing to rebuild public finances in the wake of COVID-19. “The goal is to re-evaluate and improve the fiscal regimes governing the mining industry, which tend to be complex and[…]

Mining3 has launched an online sensor technology capability tool that provides users with, it says, unbiased information on Proximity Detection System (PDS) sensors to assist in their decision-making process. The PDS Toolkit is part of the Mining3 ACARP funded project titled, ‘PDS Validation Framework – Phase 3’. The interface provides a high-level summary of the[…]

Emesent says it has announced a major breakthrough in the journey to fully autonomous drone flight systems, with the launch of Autonomy Level 2 (AL2) for Hovermap, the world’s first plug-and-play payload for industrial drones that provides autonomous beyond line of sight, GPS-denied flight. Building on Emesent’s Hovermap simultaneous localisation and mapping autonomous (SLAM) flight[…]