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Innovative, intuitive interface turns website into multimedia online broadcaster. Ahead of IM’s March issue and the major feature on water management and delivery. PSG has launched its new PSG TV website, which can be found at www.psgdover.com/psgtv. This has been designed to provide customers with an easy-to-navigate multimedia channel featuring an assortment of pump and[…]

As a leading international resource for technical information about mining and related industries, the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) has announced the availability of the second edition of its book, An Introduction to Cut-off Grade Estimation. The publication examines one of the most important calculations in the mining industry; cut-off grades play a key role[…]

Micromate™ is Instantel’s latest and it claims most cost-effective vibration monitoring solution to date for blasting in the mining industry. “Ideal for any budget, Micromate provides reliable regulatory compliance monitoring with an ISEE or DIN Triaxial geophone and ISEE Linear Microphone. With so many features at such a reasonable price, the Micromate redefines industry standards for[…]

Indonesian mining company Bukit Asam has been expanding its operations at the Tanjung Enim coal mine in Sumatra, Indonesia. For ten new belt conveyors at Tanjung Enim, Bukit Asam deploys 14 Voith TVVS fluid couplings from 55-315 kW. In the past, Voith states that the mine operator has “always been pleased with the reliability of its already[…]

To face up to the challenge of more and more demanding working conditions in the underground mines of KGHM, Mine Master has started testing of its new Face Master 1.7L drilling rig. The company says that the rig is equipped with some unique solutions, which not only significantly improve the rig operator ergonomics and machine efficiency[…]

Mine Site Technologies (MST) states that “while providing location details for all your people and equipment in real-time is useful, the opportunity to further process this data to achieve specific outcomes offers more tangible cost benefits.” As an example of this, one area where MST has worked with mine operators to expand the use of[…]

To help change the mining tyres on haul mining trucks at the VA Erzberg iron ore mine in Austria, the mine has selected the latest Hyster tyre handling truck. One of the largest iron ore mines in Central Europe, 7.2 Mt of iron ore is mined and transported each year by a fleet of Komatsu trucks. The large truck tyres[…]

Enigma Telematics has announced the release of an Android version of its Skyline Asset Tracking app, which is now available for users of Skyline, Enigma’s web-based tracking platform. With an iOS tablet version already available for iPad and iPad Mini users, an Android version can now be downloaded free of charge from Android app stores, for[…]

Italy’s Paolo Cadeddu has designed and built a number of battery powered underground electric mining vehicles. These machines can be seen on the Facebook page “Machines for MINES” https://www.facebook.com/pages/Machines-for-MINES/272615819560605?ref=hl. He has partnered with a team of researchers and professors from a major Italian university to develop a vision system and intelligent guide, to create together[…]

Rio Tinto has partnered with CRCMining, Newcrest Mining and Elexon Electronics in the development of a cutting-edge real-time cave flow tracking system of caved material within block caves, on target to be operational in 2014. CRCMining’s ground-breaking cave tracking technology uses unique 3D position systems to enable real-time monitoring of sensors in the block cave,[…]