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The BattleBorn hackathon starts Friday March 9 and is a 54 hour, weekend-long open innovation event to be held at Rob Roy’s Innevation Center in Las Vegas, featuring real data and challenges direct from Barrick’s mining operations. Participants will be presented with four challenges and tasked with the opportunity of identifying inefficiencies and developing technical[…]

Goldcorp has announced the four finalists and eight semi-finalists for #DisruptMining 2018, an innovation accelerator designed to encourage new technologies and ideas to solve some of the biggest challenges in mining, with a $1 million investment up for grabs. “Over 100 impressive submissions were received, making for a difficult selection process to determine finalists.” The[…]

Western Australia Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Johnston has officially launched the Emergency Management for Western Australian Mines code of practice. “Since mining operations can be potentially hazardous, and are often in remote locations, it is important to always be prepared for an emergency. The code provides important information on emergency management plans and how[…]

Dassault Systèmes recently announced that it has officially launched the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace, its online ecosystem where today’s business innovators in mining and other industries will be able to collaborate and transact with other industrials and service providers. The cloud-based marketplace is a new trading platform for digital design, engineering and manufacturing transactions, with ambition to[…]

Sustained commodity price growth and reduced costs are combining new technology trends with synchronised global growth to present Africa’s mining sector with the best prospects in over a decade, says Standard Bank. “Given Africa’s rich resource endowment mining is and will continue to be central to the growth and global integration of African economies as[…]

Already very high international exhibitor participation is being recorded for the forthcoming Expomin mining show in Santiago, Chile, being held from 23-27 April 2018 at the Espacio Riesco exhibition centre and coinciding with International Mining’s own In-Pit Crushing and Conveying conference on 26/27 April 2018 in the same city at the DoubleTree by Hilton Vitacura[…]

Peru will strengthen its position as one of the top five gold and silver producing countries in the world if it makes the most of the reserves of these two metals identified in its territory, said the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy (SNMPE). The non-profit organisation formed by major mining and energy companies[…]

INTERMAT, the international trade show for construction and infrastructure, recently announced the winners of the INTERMAT Innovation Awards on Thursday 18 January in Paris (Maison de la Mutualité). In its role as a springboard for worldwide innovation in the building and public works sector, the competition designated 13 prize winners from the 90 competing entries.[…]

Global efforts by the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO) to promote greater trust in mineral resource estimates took another step forward recently with the admission of Indonesia into its ranks. Admitted in a ceremony at CRIRSCO’ s eleventh annual meeting held in Jogjakarta, Indonesia becomes the eleventh member – joining Australasia, Brazil,[…]

WOMBATT has commercialised iVOICE, a voice based driver fatigue prediction and detection system invented by the Centre for Space Medicine at University College London. A combination of voice analysis and machine learning originally developed to track the health of astronauts on long term space missions has been shown to have acquired this very human capability.[…]