Archives: Industrial minerals

Metso has signed an agreement to divest its grinding media business to Moly-Cop, a portfolio company of private equity firm American Industrial Partners. The transaction comprises the sale of Metso Spain Holding SLU, including operations in two locations with around 80 employees in Spain (Bilbao and Seville). The estimated turnover of the business in 2018[…]

Phoenix recently introduced a new level of safety to mine sites worldwide with its newest product – The Danger Light™. This heavy duty LED fixture leaves a distinct red beam around the shovel perimeter, clearly marking the area that should remain clear to avoid a truck-shovel impact. “Human error is to blame for 93% of[…]

Trimble has announced the Trimble® LOADRITE® Payload Management for Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform for Excavators integration. “This integration will help increase productivity and efficiency for excavator operations, allowing contractors to track bucket-by-bucket payload, and monitor mass haul progress from the same Trimble Earthworks display. The versatile system can be installed on any hydraulic excavator[…]

On the 24 October the ¡VAMOS! partners together with Advisory Board members and interested external parties – such as geologists and researchers from companies and institutions, local people etc – were present at the ¡VAMOS! technology Demonstration Day, at the Magcobar flooded mine pit, in Silvermines, Ireland. In total 85 visitors participated in the field[…]

Master Drilling, listed on the JSE in South Africa and a world leader in the raise bore drilling services industry, has concluded a joint venture with Ghella SpA, a leading Italian construction company in the construction of major infrastructure projects worldwide. The Joint Venture will operate under the newly registered Italian company, TunnelPro and will[…]

Emesent, a drone autonomy spin-out from Australia’s CSIRO, has raised A$3.5 million ($2.5 million) in venture capital to commercialise its first product, Hovermap. Main Sequence Ventures, which manages the CSIRO Innovation Fund, led the funding round along with long-time Bechtel mining executive Andy Greig. Developed by former researchers from CSIRO’s Data61, Emesent’s Hovermap technology automates[…]

Dassault Systèmes and Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions have signed a collaboration agreement confirming with the intention to combine Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, GEOVIA solutions and relevant drone-based technologies developed by Delair, and cooperatively promote these solutions for the mining and construction industries. “In just a few years, companies of all sized[…]

GMG, in partnership with Canada Mining Innovation Council (CMIC), has published the much-awaited second version of their Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) guideline. The BEVs Guideline aims to drive technological development to enable diesel-free underground mines. BEVs can reduce both a mine’s operating costs and impact on the environment, but they also require mines to make[…]

TNG has signed up SMS Group to carry out the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia. The mandate for the contract encompasses the Mount Peake concentrator, the TIVAN® processing plant and all associated plant and equipment. The two companies have been working together[…]

RPMGlobal has focused on mobility for the latest release of its fast-growing asset management solution, AMT. In this release of AMT – version 8.16 – RPM has streamlined the inspection work process in the AMT mobile app making it far easier to manage in the field. With a mobile device, users can access, edit and[…]