Archives: Communications in mining

The first public showing from executives of the new Metso Outotec has highlighted just how big the new group will be within the mineral processing ecosystem. Circa-15,000 employees, some 5,000 service representatives, around €4.2 billion ($4.7 billion) of sales in 2019…the stats are impressive. The minerals sector dominates within this, representing 61% of 2019 sales.[…]

Commit Works, a mining software company headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, is continuing its expansion plans with a move into South America. This builds on Commits Works’ growth trajectory into South Africa, North America and New Zealand in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively, and comes only seven years since the company was founded in 2013. While[…]

Epiroc has launched new sustainability goals for 2030 that, it says, further advance the group’s ambitions on issues such as climate change and diversity. Sustainability is already integrated in Epiroc’s business operations and, this year, the group has established long-term sustainability goals that support the Paris Agreement and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,[…]

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has announced a A$100 million ($69 million) investment and new jobs as part of the introduction of 34 autonomous trucks at its Daunia mine in central Queensland, Australia. The first retrofit trucks will begin working from February next year, with the rollout expected to be completed by the end of 2021,[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has officially opened the Fortescue Hive, the company’s newly expanded Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) which, FMG says, uses the latest technology and brings together the company’s fully owned and integrated supply chain. Fortescue Founder and Chairman, Dr Andrew Forrest, and Chief Executive Officer, Elizabeth Gaines, celebrated the official opening in Perth with[…]

Recently, Beijing Soly Technology Co Ltd worked with China Telecom and customer Jinchuan Group’s Longshou nickel mine to successfully integrate the a driverless electric rail haulage system with a new 5G communication technology. Jinchuan Group’s Longshou mine is in Gansu Province, and this unmanned system for mined nickel ore haulage locomotives, is the first time[…]

RUC and its technology partner, InSig Technologies, have successfully deployed their first remote controlled underground jumbo drill from surface. The achievement, made with an Epiroc S2 Jumbo at the Dacian Gold-owned Mount Morgans underground mine in Western Australia, will provide the contractor with the ability to drill for longer and take better advantage of the[…]

A 5G pilot zone has been deployed for the first time in Russia at a SUEK coal open-pit coal mine in Khakassia to test the potential of 5G as part of an autonomous haulage system developed by Zyfra, the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader. The pilot project is being trialled on 130 t BELAZ-7513R autonomous mining[…]

Transense Technologies PLC, the provider of sensor systems for the industrial, mining and transportation markets, has announced that on 24 June 2020, the company granted an exclusive worldwide licence to ATMS Technology Ltd, a newly-formed wholly owned subsidiary of Bridgestone, covering all current and future iTrack technology for a period of ten years. In order[…]

A recent webinar from Nokia and Komatsu entitled Making Autonomous Haulage Systems a Reality covered how industrial-grade private LTE wireless networks are powering mining innovation, specifically looking at AHS, while including an update from Komatsu on its AHS progress and its preference for LTE over WiFi backed up with specific cases, as well as discussing[…]