Archives: HOF

New research by Inmarsat, a leader in global mobile satellite communications, reveals a rapid increase in the maturity level of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) adoption across the mining sector since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents from the sector reported that COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of IoT to their businesses, with many[…]

Anglo American has launched the first Epiroc Pit Vipers operating at its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile to be remotely controlled from its Integrated Remote Operation Center (IROC) in Santiago. These five drills are the first in Chile and Latin America to be operated from outside the designated mine site, with the company planning[…]

Metso Outotec stands out among the mining original equipment manufacturers for having publicly acknowledged ore sorting is on its radar. The Outotec business had a relationship with TOMRA Sorting Solutions dating back to 2014 when the two companies signed an agreement that would see the particle sorting company supply Outotec-branded sorting solutions to the mining[…]

The team behind MEGATEM is inducted in the Exploration category of the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. Ken Witherly (BHP) and John Gingrich (Noranda) were users of the equipment that recognized the potential of the system and drove the development of the system from the demand perspective.  This demand was not just in their[…]

James Herbert Fletcher is the underground development inductee to the IM Technology Hall of Fame. He began his company intent on developing technology that would greatly improve mine productivity and reduce personnel risk by using rubber-tyre, non-track-mounted vehicles in underground applications. In 1938, the company showed its first products at a coal show in Cincinnati;[…]

Allan Cramm is the FLSmidth 2018 Environmental Management and Stewardship inductee into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. Cramm is the Vice President, Innovation and Development focusing on key strategic projects to maximize Anaconda Mining’s assets. He also is part of the development team for new mines and operations. Prior to his promotion, Allan[…]

Steve Morrell is the 2018 Comminution inductee into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. He joined the JKMRC as a Master’s student some 30 years ago.  His project was to extend the AG/SAG mathematical model developed by Kam Leung.  He continued to a PhD in which he aspired to answer all of the relevant[…]

Chosen by just one vote ahead of David Noon, Vice President, Global Operations & Sales, GroundProbe, nominated for his geotechnical monitoring technology solutions, Nigel Bain is the 2018 inductee into the IM Technology Hall of Fame; safety category. Bain recently retired as Executive Director Nevada with Barrick. When he was Turquoise Ridge General Manager Bain[…]

Sandvik’s TH551/TH663 – modular product range for large trucks – was narrowly beaten in this category for the 2018 induction into the IM Technology Hall of Fame by METSO’s SmartTag. Michael Wortley, (Global Manager – PRO Products, Australia), Kai Riihioja (Senior Software Engineer, Australia), Jose Luis Bravo (Senior Instrument Engineer, Chile) and Rodrigo Sales (Senior[…]

J.V.N. Dorr’s first development was  the Dorr classifier.  John Dorr was one of the great inventors of methods to process solid particles and he was quick to take these methods from ideas to operating practice. Wet ball mills were being tested on the gold ores in South Africa and copper ores in Arizona and the[…]