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CiDRA Minerals Processing has announced successful deployment of its SONARtrac flow technology in OceanaGold’s Didipio gold mine in the Philippines. The SONARtrac system is a non-contact and non-invasive flow meter solution which enables the accurate volumetric monitoring of slurries as well as the presence of any entrained air or gas. The SONARtrac system is now[…]

Pantera DI6400, the new down-the-hole (DTH) percussive drill platform from Sandvik Mining, won over a 40-member expert jury to earn top honours in the 2014 Red Dot Award product design category. Pantera charmed a panel of design experts to win the coveted Best of the Best award over thousands of international products in one of[…]

Caterpillar has introduced an innovative approach to helping customers monitor, control and manage equipment while increasing jobsite efficiency. Cat® Equipment Management Solutions (EMSolutions) is a comprehensive portfolio of services built to help manage equipment assets and lower operating costs—whether the customer performs maintenance tasks or the Cat dealer handles the details. It is enabled by Product[…]

Gold will be increasingly an important investment in 2014, as the Federal Reserve continues its tapering policy and financial markets become increasingly volatile.  That’s a key assessment from former US Mint Director Edmund C. Moy, who now serves as Chief Strategist for Morgan Gold, a gold-backed IRA provider.  Moy made his comments at Morgan Gold’s[…]

A ZEB1 hand held laser mapping system is being used to map excavations at a historic gold mine in South Africa. Mining has been taking place at Barberton Mines in the Mpumalanga province since 1884 during which time mine managers have employed a range of surveying techniques and technologies. The latest innovation in surveying is[…]

Cestusline says it has “received outstanding feedback on [its] newest mining glove, DM Hybrid®. Originally created specifically for the underground mining industry, DM Hybrid is changing the way miners are looking at hand protection.  For instance, it features flexible TPR impact shields that protect from knuckle to fingertip.  Additional impact shields extend to the metacarpal[…]

Electric furnaces and associated plant equipment specialist, Tenova Pyromet, has been awarded a contract by Xstrata Technology for the supply of its industry leading copper cooling technology.  This award follows the successful installation of plate coolers in two PGM furnaces in South Africa.  The first copper coolers were installed in a Forteleza De Minas furnace[…]

At the SME 2014 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City at the end of February, members of ASI’s mining team, as well as sales and marketing staff participated in the exhibit hall and technical sessions, including a session dedicated to the Bingham Canyon mine cleanup efforts. Kennecott operators have been using ASI automated excavators since[…]

Next-generation retrofittable onboard weigh scale for wheel loaders and excavators to make UK debut in June. The Loadex 100 from RDS Technology is a retrofittable scale suitable for installation on both tracked and wheeled 360o excavators and material-handling machines to weigh the net material load in the bucket, grab or clamshell. A minimum of two[…]

Researchers from Brock University in Ontario are working with a Mississauga company to develop technology that dramatically speeds up mineral and ore analysis while reducing its impact on the environment. When Brock alumnus Ravi Kanipayor, together with the technology company Chemquant, invented ColdBlock, they began working with a research group at Brock University to analyse[…]