Archives: IoT

Teck is one of the global miners innovating now to enable it to stay on top of its future mining goals, exemplified by its RACE21™ company-wide program to transform how it mines by harnessing technology and innovation to generate significant new value and improve safety, sustainability and efficiency. In a December 2020 presentation entitled The Art[…]

iRing Inc has introduced what it says is an extensive, searchable, comprehensive Knowledge Base that provides answers to questions concerning the use of commercial explosives in mining and construction applications including the physics of the detonation reaction and how this is used in mining for fragmentation. The iRing Knowledge Base provides in-depth analysis and descriptions[…]

TOMRA Sorting Mining has introduced the TOMRA ACT user interface together with a new image processing pipeline and additional process data for TOMRA Insight, all of which will, the company says, enable improvements in the overall sorting process for greater productivity and profitability. The new TOMRA ACT graphical user interface (UI) brings a fundamental change[…]

Minemax has released a new version of its integrated strategic mine planning and scheduling software, Scheduler, that brings advanced scheduling into its cost-effective Lite edition. Minemax Scheduler 7.0.4 will allow Minemax Scheduler Lite users to model various strategic decisions, previously exclusive to Minemax Scheduler Professional users, according to the company. “With this added capability, Lite[…]

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the potential expansion of Golden Star Resources’ Wassa gold mine in Ghana has flagged the potential for applying alternative underground haulage methods, and autonomous and battery-electric equipment at the operation. The PEA provides an assessment of the development of the Southern Extension of Wassa and the increase in mining[…]

MacLean Engineering has become renowned for its battery-electric equipment in the last four-to-five years, having announced its electrified plans at MINExpo 2016, and steadily upped its offering in line with industry demand. Yet, it is not the only company in its field backing battery-powered production support developments underground. Recognising the same trend that led to[…]

TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING has announced the release of its next-generation TESCAN TIMA, a dedicated solution for automated mineralogical analysis for industrial mineral processing and earth sciences. TESCAN TIMA delivers rapid access to actionable data across several applications, including mineral quantification, petrography, metallurgy, liberation analysis and other mineralogical or composition studies. For the mining industry, TESCAN[…]

Two new 7531 series 240 t BELAZ dump truck have begun operating at the Andrey Varichev Mikhailovsky GOK iron ore mine in Russia, part of Metalloinvest, this year. They are being used for the transportation of mined ore to transhipment points and to the crushing and conveyor facility. These are the third and fourth trucks[…]

Volvo Autonomous Solutions has signed an agreement with verification company Foretellix to, they say, jointly address the challenges of large-scale verification of autonomous driving solutions on highways and confined areas, such as mines. Volvo’s partnership with Foretellix will see the two firms jointly create a Coverage Driven Verification solution for autonomous driving solutions. The solution[…]

The resources sector creates problems for itself from the first drill hole to production by not acquiring the right data at the right time, according to IMDEX Chief Geoscientist, Dr Dave Lawie. Speaking ahead of an IMDEX webinar to be delivered to coincide with this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s virtual conference, Dr[…]