Archives: Spotlight Feature Article

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers an extensive mine visit made by IM Editorial Director Paul Moore in 2019 to the Kazzinc-owned Ridder Mining and Concentrating Complex in East Kazakhstan in 2019, including the new Dolinny operation. The polymetallic complex is already one of the world’s most productive and modern mines but is taking a[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at proximity detection & collision avoidance systems in mining. As Paul Moore explains, there is much more attention now being given to these systems, driven very much by greater automation take-up, an increased focus on safety and incoming South African legislation

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers the current moves in introducing smart lighting solutions into mining – lights that can adapt to conditions in real time, including weather, dust levels etc, but also to specific operational needs. Industry trends are also driving this. With more and more mines implementing or trialling autonomous machines, the lighting[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers rock tools and consumables in mining, where technology continues to evolve allowing better performance and longevity. Boart Longyear says in production drilling, global field tests of its new DriftMaster™ rods and bits have exceeded expectations with customers seeing increased productivity and lower overall costs

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at mine safety and the ways mining companies are striving towards a culture of ‘zero harm’. This has seen, among other initiatives, mining companies employ safety systems such as the ANSUL® LVS (Liquid Vehicle System) for both fire suppression and superior cooling of superheated surfaces

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article focuses in on wear parts in mining, which get ever more advanced as alloys improve but also as products become more application specific. ME Elecmetal as an example offers optimised solutions for mill linings based on specific customer applications

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at power solutions in mining, with a focus on Cummins. In this feature, Craig Watkins, Director Prime Power, talks up natural gas as a key source of the industry’s power needs in the coming decades, while IM looks at the company’s acquisition of fuel cell systems provider Hydrogenics and[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at fuels and oils in mining. Total is a key global supplier of both and argues that the most effective ways mines can reduce energy costs include using lighter viscosity grades of lubricants; using synthetic lubricants in industrial gear equipment; high VI viscosity hydraulic fluids; fuel cleanliness; and fuel[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article looks at the latest innovations and technologies being applied to underground load and haul equipment; as an example Codelco is to trial a Komatsu hybrid LHD at its El Teniente underground copper mine in Chile as the company looks to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas it emits from its[…]

This month’s Spotlight Feature Article covers developments in the mining truck market and associated technology. Engine performance is a big part of truck fleet success and the feature includes a case story of how Cummins engines are living up to a super high altitude operational challenge at the Julong copper mine in Tibet, China