Archives: Diamond mining

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,[…]

De Beers Group has signed a contract with a Northwest Territories Indigenous community-led joint venture to manage the closure, demolition, and rehabilitation of the Snap Lake Mine site in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). MET/Nuna, a joint venture between the North Slave Métis Alliance and Nuna Logistics, was awarded the contract worth approximately C$110 million over[…]

On November 24 at the Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, which is the largest mining and petroleum conference in the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd President and CEO Rory Moore outlined how the company is going to trial Underwater Remote Mining as a way of taking the Ekati operations forward into the future, as current[…]

WEC Projects has secured a R3 million ($187,460) contract to supply a new sewage treatment plant for the expansion of Lucara Diamond’s Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. The mine, near the village of Letlhakane in the eastern Kalahari Basin region of Botswana, is planning to cease open-pit activities by 2026 after which it will continue[…]

ALROSA plans to reclaim the tailings pit of processing plant No. 8 at its Aikhal Division by 2029 in a project worth over RUB2.5 billion ($34.3 million) that will seek to restore 650 ha of land and have it planted with pine forests, the diamond miner says. The tailings pit is located 1.2 km southwest[…]

TOMRA’S XRT sensor-based sorting technology is unlocking significant value for Gem Diamonds at its Letšeng Diamond Mine. It delivered an effective solution for coarse fractions in historical tailings dumps, recovering 15 times the initial investment in four years. This success has led to the installation of the first TOMRA Final Recovery sorter in the world,[…]

Demonstrating its depth of local engineering expertise and technical capability, local vibrating screen specialist Kwatani has designed and fabricated a specialised spiral elevator for a mobile containerised sorting plant for a diamond mine in Australia. Although not the first spiral elevator be produced by the company, this particular one was the first of its particular[…]

As the mineral sector seeks safer and more automated operations in line with the ‘smart mining’ vision, leading underground mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation is making good progress with its own digitisation strategy. According to Mike Wells, Managing Director of Murray & Roberts Cementation, its new projects are increasingly embracing the power of digital[…]