Archives: Diamond mining

The BEUMER Group, based in Beckum, Germany, a leading international manufacturer of intralogistics systems in the areas of conveyor and loading systems, palletising and packaging technology as well as sorting and distribution systems, has taken over fellow German company FAM GmbH, Magdeburg, a major supplier of conveyor systems and loading technology. The contracts were signed[…]

Southstone Minerals Ltd’s 43% owned subsidiary, African Star Minerals, has entered into a contract mining and diamond recovery agreement with Oryx Mining for the Oena diamond mine, in South Africa. Oryx, at its own cost and expense, will provide and maintain all the plant and equipment as required to perform the mining services, Southstone says.[…]

De Beers says it is making good progress on the installation of a comprehensive water management system at its Venetia Underground Project (VUP) in Limpopo Province. Costing US$2.2 billion to develop, the VUP will see an ultra-modern sub-level cave diamond mine replacing the current open pit operations, which are due to cease shortly after being[…]

The National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (NMDC), India’s largest iron ore producer and a CPSE under the Ministry of Steel, has signed an MoU with IIT Kharagpur for drone-based mineral exploration. NMDC has been exploring for minerals for six decades including copper, phosphate rock, limestone, magnesite, diamond, tungsten and mineral sands amongst others from reconnaissance G4[…]

Some 18 months after launching TOMRA Insight to mining customers, the cloud-based data platform is making inroads across the North American mining sector, Harold Cline and Jordan Rutledge told IM on the side lines of the MINEXCHANGE 2022 SME Annual Conference & Expo in Salt Lake City recently. TOMRA rolled out the subscription-based service to[…]

Arctic Canadian Diamond Company and IHC Mining have reached an important milestone in the development of an underwater remote mining (URM) system for the extraction of diamond-bearing kimberlite ore from deep open pits at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The URM system consists of a floating platform, an underwater mining[…]

Faced with a challenge of large rocks in the run-of-mine (ROM) feed regularly damaging main support structures, chutes and a grizzly feeder, a diamond mine in Botswana reached out to Weba Chute Systems to design a solution to overcome this costly challenge, which included major safety hazards. According to Hilton Buys, Regional Manager at Weba[…]

There remains only one conference in the world devoted to the subject of In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC), an approach to mining that is seeing a high level of advanced studies as well as actual implementation – largely due to the fact that it is dominated by electric power so for some operations it allows[…]

Weba Chute Systems has come to the rescue of a large Botswana diamond producer suffering from continuous chute maintenance with a customised solution that came with a 12-month guarantee. This primary crusher discharge chute had been a headache for the company, with the crunch coming when, after considerable capital expenditure, the new conventional chute needed[…]

Having left TOMRA Mining more than a decade ago only to return to the Germany-based company in November, Kai Bartram’s re-arrival at the sensor-based sorting firm represents a good time to take stock and reflect on how far the mining sector has come with its understanding and acceptance of this type of pre-concentration technology. Bartram,[…]