Archives: Equipment maintenance

In April 2023, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore toured Metso’s state of the art Performance Center in Santiago, Chile with Pablo Zuniga – Metso’s Remote Services Manager (pictured at the facility above). The facility is just a small part of Metso’s office space in the city but an increasingly important one as mining houses look[…]

Engineering company Monadelphous Group Limited says it has secured new contracts and contract extensions across the mining and metals space in Australia totalling approximately A$150 million ($102 million). The company has been awarded a contract with Fortescue Metals Group for the supply and construction of an overland conveyor and transfer station at the Christmas Creek[…]

Torsa has undertaken a successful project to develop a state-of-the-art safety system for the stockpiles at Antapaccay copper mine in Peru, owned by Glencore. The main objective of this solution was to implement an operator alert system for stockpiles, aiming to prevent incidents related to the operator’s position on the  feeders. The system was entirely customised[…]

In Australia, FLSmidth has received an order to deliver two of its Jaw Gyratory Crushers of model BK 63-75 to an underground mine in New South Wales. The recent order makes it the fifth and sixth Jaw Gyratory Crushers for this project, as it follows several already successful project deliveries of the same crusher type since[…]

A milestone in the world of battery electric ground support equipment was reached in Canada earlier this year when Tantalum Mining Corp of Canada (Tanco) near Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, working with Sandvik Mining & Rock Solutions Key Account Manager Ivan Magdic, deployed Canada’s and North America’s first battery electric Sandvik DS412iE bolter. It enables[…]

Weir Minerals says it has opened a new distribution centre in Salt Lake City, Utah, providing proximity to customers in the heart of US mining country. The new facility boasts over 10,000 high-density pallet storage locations, 16 active docks with full safety features and four assembly bays. It will allow the company to expedite deliveries[…]

The Electric Mine 2024 has come out of the blocks with a world-leading OEM and top battery-electric mining technology innovator in one of the top sponsorship slots. We are delighted to announce that we will be working closely with Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions over the next year as one of only two Platinum Sponsors[…]

Sandvik Rock Processing says it has marked a significant step in its expansion across Africa with the successful completion of its first South African-manufactured screen package. This milestone project was undertaken at the company’s Spartan facility in Johannesburg, which already produces the Kwatani and Schenck products as part of Sandvik’s screening solutions offering. The capability[…]

In April 2023, IM Editorial Director, Paul Moore, toured Kal Tire Chile’s unique mining tyre recycling facility near Antofagasta with Rodrigo Reyes, Kal Tire Chile Recycling Plant Manager and Carlos Zuniga, Kal Tire Chile General Manager. There have been many attempts around the world to start up meaningful large mining tyre recycling capability based on[…]

At the Epiroc World Expo 2023 in Orebro, Sweden, attended by IM, Peter Bray, Epiroc Global Product Manager – Rock Reinforcement Equipment presented the latest Boltec E10 S ABR – the latest and most advanced incarnation of its Boltec E10 and M10 models first introduced in 2021, which introduced previously unavailable autonomous functionality to full[…]