Archives: Gem stone mining

Caterpillar has boosted the payload of its 990K wheel loader with the introduction of its Aggregate Handler. The attachment provides as much as a 25% payload increase compared with the standard 990K Wheel Loader, enabling customers to load trucks and railcars faster and to move more material in load-and-carry and stockpile handling tasks. The Cat®[…]

Environmental and advisory solutions firm SLR has acquired Northern Resource Consultants (NRC), a 25-person team of environmental specialists based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. NRC will bring considerable additional capability and geographic coverage to SLR’s existing Asia-Pacific (APAC) business, particularly in relation to its focus on the mining and minerals sector, SLR said. NRC’s services include[…]

Sandvik thinks it has introduced the fastest drill bit in the industry with its new Speedy bit. In addition to 10% higher drilling speed compared with standard bits with ballistic buttons, the Speedy bit also delivers great collaring accuracy and hole quality, according to the company. Sandvik said the increased speed enables Speedy bit users[…]

Airobotics has received a Certificate of Waiver (CoW) from the US Federal Aviation Administration that will allow it to operate from the company’s remote operations centre in Scottsdale, Arizona. It has become the first company in the US to receive a CoW that combines three elements – flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) for[…]

Mine planning software specialist Maptek has agreed to step up its investment in Minlog and its Production Management Information Systems technology, with the aim of acquiring 100% of the company over the next 18 months. Maptek said the deal builds on a longstanding partnership between the two companies to bridge the gap between mine planning[…]

MAXAM is celebrating the 25th edition of its Santa Barbara Innovation Awards, a pioneering initiative in the industry aimed at the company’s more than 6,500 employees. Through these awards the technology company, which specialises in energetic materials, seeks to promote a culture of innovation at all levels of the organisation, MAXAM said. According to Miguel[…]

The purchase of Kiln Flame Systems (KFS) is set to provide Metso with new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design and analysis expertise, says Jonathan Allen, Vice President, Engineered Products, at the Finland-based mining OEM. Following news Metso had completed the purchase yesterday, IM put a few questions to Allen to find out some of the[…]

Dingo Software, a leader in providing predictive maintenance solutions to asset-intensive industries, has opened up its new Asset Health Centre in Denver, Colorado. The modern, purpose-designed facility will provide operations with asset health coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Dingo says. “From a sophisticated control room, Dingo analysts will monitor equipment condition,[…]

Dingo is to introduce practical machine learning models built using real customer data and targeted at specific industry problems from January, the company has announced. “Dingo has spent the last 12 months developing and refining machine learning models, in collaboration with Queensland University of Technology, to detect anomalies in condition monitoring data in Dingo’s OEM-independent[…]

Sandvik has signed an agreement with Nokia to further develop solutions for private LTE (Long Term Evolution) and 5G technology, continuing its focus on IoT solutions for the mining industry. The Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) platform offers pervasive connectivity enabling advanced applications and will initially be implemented and tested in the Sandvik test mine[…]