Archives: Diamond mining

BlueRock Diamonds, the owner and operator of the Kareevlei diamond mine, in the Kimberley region of South Africa, has instructed Teichmann South Africa to provide mining services to the company. BlueRock announced back on May 16 that it was in negotiations with a member of the Teichmann Group to provide the quantity of ore necessary[…]

Tenova TAKRAF is a highly specialised supplier of machines and services in the fields of mining, materials handling and minerals processing. As such, it boasts a large base of installed machines that daily generate valuable data from which it can gain information regarding optimisation of design, operation and maintenance or even troubleshooting. In a recent[…]

As part of a process initiated by Sasol Ltd to incorporate a strategic partner for its explosives and rock fragmentation division, Chile based explosives major ENAEX SA has been selected as a preferred partner to negotiate the terms and conditions for creating a joint venture with Sasol South Africa Ltd, subsidiary of Sasol Ltd, to[…]

The installation of a FLSmidth KREBS millMAX™ pump at Namawka Diamonds’ Kao mine, in Lesotho, is, according to the mining equipment maker, providing the miner with significant cost savings through increased impeller, casing and back liner wear life. FLSmidth’s engagement at Kao started when the mine required a pump conversion in the field – an[…]

De Beers Group’s carbon-capture research at the Gahcho Kué mine in Canada has received a funding boost following the award of a C$675,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada’s Clean Growth Program towards pioneering research in partnership focused on delivering carbon-neutral diamond mining. The project in Canada is part of a De Beers Group global research[…]

Saint Jean Carbon Inc, a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of green energy storage, green energy creation and green re-creation through the use of carbon materials has announced the signing of an arm’s length term sheet on June 28 2019 to acquire Process Research Ortech Inc (PRO). PRO is a privately[…]

Turkish quartz miner, Mikroman has been able to both improve product quality and increase capacity at its three processing plants in the country thanks to the installation of four TOMRA Sorting Solutions high-capacity sensor-based sorting systems, the technology company said. Mikroman mines quartz from its open-pit operations in Turkey, with the company running its own[…]

Human errors are costly for any industry, but in mining with its expensive equipment their price is enormous. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not replace humans in the mining industry completely, but will help to cut their errors considerably, Anton Potapov, CTO at VIST Group (part of ZYFRA Group), told IM. “Productivity in the mining sector[…]

Kespry, the drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, has announced the results of what it says is the industry’s first mining and aggregates customer survey. Kespry surveyed its 220 mining and aggregates customers that use its platform across 3,311 worksites across North America, with 22,987 missions in 2018 alone. These companies typically use Kespry for inventory management,[…]

On June 17, Bauer Maschinen GmbH, together with a joint venture partner, successfully completed the first 228 m cutter bulk sample on the Rio Tinto- and Star Diamond-owned FalCon project in Canada, marking a new global depth record. “This depth has never been reached by a trench cutter in any commercial application worldwide before and[…]