Archives: IoT

Newmont says it has delivered over $1 billion in annual synergies, significantly exceeding the initial value commitment of $365 million a year following the company’s acquisition of Goldcorp in April of 2019. All while doing it six months ahead of schedule. More than three quarters of the synergy value has been generated by focusing on[…]

One of the mining industry’s biggest concerns is workforce and asset safety. Leading deployer of 4G/5G private networks Ambra Solutions says that it was built on the premise that while any company prioritises employee security above anything else, in mining, the obstacle to an optimally safe and efficient mine has been the fact that in[…]

Mining location technology company GeoMoby has partnered with fellow Australia-based Digital Terrain to, it says, offer real-time monitoring of environmental conditions in underground mines. “Temperature and potentially lethal gases, such as carbon monoxide or methane, can easily be remotely monitored, recorded and alerts triggered if needed,” Mathieu Paul, Director of GeoMoby, says. Digital Terrain’s RDI-EMS[…]

Exyn Technologies and NSS Canada say they have expanded their footprint with Jaguar Mining in response to a growing demand for autonomous robots to capture critical data in complex, GPS-denied environments underground. Historically, mining in geographically complex areas has been dangerous and intensive in terms of labour, time and cost. The evolution of autonomous aerial[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing AutoMine® Flexible Safety Zone, a new feature for its AutoMine underground system for autonomous mining operations. The new capability is, Sandvik says, designed to improve productivity and increase flexibility by enabling alternating safety zone states between autonomous and manual operation. With the AutoMine Flexible Safety Zone, autonomous mining[…]

Micromine says Guanajuato Silver Company has chosen Micromine as its primary geological and mine design software provider. Micromine Origin and Micromine Beyond software will soon be implemented across four active mine sites – El Cubo, Valenciana, San Ignacio and Topia. Guanajuato Silver chose Micromine Origin and Micromine Beyond due to the comprehensive functionality, which has[…]

DEUTZ says it is expanding its digital services portfolio with the help of Talpa Solutions, a leading IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), analytics and intelligence solution provider for heavy industry. The engine company has been cooperating with the company to come up with its FUSIONHub software, a platform that can analyse engine data as well[…]

RCT says it has partnered with Northern Star Mining Services (NSMS) to implement a digital autonomous mining fleet at the Ramone gold mine in Western Australia. The Ramone mine, near Wiluna, is owned by Northern Star Resources, the parent company of NSMS. It is 35 km southeast of the Jundee Gold Mine, which Northern Star[…]

Epiroc says it has won a large equipment order for a new underground mine at the Hummingbird Resources-owned Komana mine in southern Mali. Hummingbird, through its subsidiary Société des Mines de Komana, has selected Epiroc drill rigs and loaders with advanced automation features for the development of a new underground mine at Komana, which is[…]

Orica has released a new integrated digital solution for the quarry market to streamline and optimise blasting operations. BlastIQ™ Quarry is a smart solution that harnesses the power of digital technologies to help quarry operators optimise their drill and blast activities in near real-time. The offering is from Orica Digital Solutions, and allows quarry operators to[…]