This month’s Spotlight Feature article covers lighting developments in mining both surface and underground, including the benefits of LEDs across the board and their increasing uptake both for new installations and retrofits
This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at trends in the surface and underground production and exploration rock tools market, including advice from Jeff Hogan, Global Product Manager for Top Hammer Tooling at Boart Longyear, on how to take care of top hammer drill bits for efficiency improvements
This month’s Spotlight Feature Article focuses on mine safety. One aspect of this is fire safety: many vehicles are being brought back online after years sat idle during the downturn. This has created an urgency to ensure machines – from haul trucks, wheel loaders and draglines to graders, scoop trams and shuttle cars – are[…]
John Chadwick looks at wear parts in this month’s Spotlight Feature Article covering what’s new including GETs, wear plates, polyurethane, truck bodies, crushing services, screen media and some serious innovation in mill linings. In crusher parts, ME Elecmetal’s ME FIT (Fully Integrated Technology) Crushing offering sees the company integrate design, metallurgy, a methodology for working[…]
Earlier this year Volvo CE launched its new flagship R100E rigid haul truck at its Motherwell factory in Scotland, and the machine is detailed in this month’s Spotlight Feature Article. Paul Moore was one of the few mining journalists there, and heard about its competitive offering, from highest payload in its class to ultra durable[…]
This month’s Spotlight Feature article homes in on mining engines. Mining customers worldwide are requesting extended service intervals as a way to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO); Cummins is one engine OEM tackling this challenge by employing a holistic approach to managing and maintaining the engine’s critical systems to assure maximum performance is achieved
This month’s Spotlight Feature Article addresses the many facets of underground drilling technology. With its next generation of mobile underground drill rigs, innovative technology from Boart Longyear significantly enhances safety, increases productivity and improves ease of operation and maintenance
This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers the latest on fleet management systems (FMS), where suppliers have taken dispatch to another level, incorporating real time analysis of shift changes, maintenance needs, machine speeds and fuelling. ASI leverages its Mobius mine software to allow highly flexible, modular implementations of individual autonomy solutions, all using a common control[…]
This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers Surface Drilling. From autonomy to drill optimisation technology and fundamental design improvements in the form of new models, surface production drilling is advancing
The Spotlight Feature Article this month sees Dr Hubert Fleming, Anglo American’s Global Lead for Water Management, outline the mining group’s approach to water stewardship and sustainability