Archives: Industrial minerals

Wirtgen says its surface miners are helping bauxite producers in Guinea make the most of the high-quality reserves on their doorstep, with 25 of its machines now in operation in the West Africa country. Wirtgen supplies surface miners in a variety of performance classes for the selective mining of raw materials, such as coal, limestone,[…]

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[…]

Sandvik is introducing a new drilling tool system, the Alpha 360, which it says is an improved and amplified version of the company’s best-selling Alpha 330 top hammer system (pictured). With a reinforced design, Alpha 360 can last twice as long as a standard industry thread. Its hole accuracy also enables higher productivity in tunneling[…]

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[…]

Metso has acquired UK-based combustion solutions and technology provider Kiln Flame Systems (KFS) as it looks to extend its pyro processing portfolio and capabilities. KFS specialises in rotary kiln and calcining processes, combustion optimisation and burner technologies with patented designs. It provides solutions to a wide range of industries including minerals processing. The company has[…]