Archives: Mine operation news

Suncor has announced a multi-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Canada as a part of the company’s effort to further accelerate its digital transformation journey. The oil sands miner has selected Microsoft as its “strategic cloud provider”, tapping into the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions to empower a connected and collaborative workforce, upgrade data centres,[…]

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) says it will implement autonomous haulage at its Goonyella Riverside coal mine, in central Queensland, next year. BMA Asset President, James Palmer, said haul trucks would be retrofitted with autonomous vehicle technology, allowing the completion of an extensive study and engagement with the workforce, community and all levels of government. “Autonomous[…]

The coarse particle flotation technology being explored as part of Anglo American’s FutureSmart Mining™ platform is gaining traction after the company announced it was to carry out a prefeasibility study on applying it at the Minas-Rio iron ore mine, in Brazil. The announcement, made during a “Bulks Seminar & Site Visit” in Brisbane, Australia, comes[…]

FLSmidth’s FerroCer® Impact wear panels have proven their worth in the mineral processing circuit at Hindustan Zinc’s Rampura Agucha operations in Rajasthan, India, having significantly outlasted the previous manganese liners the lead-zinc mine was using. By the end of 2018, the mine couldn’t say exactly just how good FerroCer wear panels were as they were[…]

PYBAR Mining Services says it is applying new technology to several automation projects it is currently working on, including Diversified Minerals’ Dargues underground gold asset and the Heron Resources-owned Woodlawn zinc-copper operation, both of which are in New South Wales, Australia. Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Rouse, says the company’s approach has always been to get[…]

Russell Mineral Equipment says it has released world-first technology that is expected to drastically reduce risk by relocating the mill relining activity from inside the confined space grinding mill environment to a highly accessible, safer area outside the mill. The semi-automated THUNDERBOLT Hammer guidance and suspension system, known as SKYWAY, has been in development by[…]

Severstal’s Strata advanced monitoring system is helping optimise its Vorkutaugol coal operations in Russia through the ability to help with predictive maintenance, gas detection, and people and proximity detection, among other capabilities, CEO Alexander Shevelev said at a media roundtable in London today. With the company looking to not only improve safety, but increase machine[…]

Newmont Goldcorp’s Eleonore gold mine was recently awarded the “Eureka Prize” from Écotech Québec, for a ventilation on demand solution that reflects the Quebec mine’s strive towards leveraging clean technologies. Nearly 250 stakeholders in the cleantech ecosystem were present at the event. Éléonore produced some 360,000 oz of gold in 2018 from the underground Roberto[…]

IAMGOLD has announced positive results from a feasibility study examining a potential increase in carbon-in-leach production followed by a heap leach operation at its Essakane gold mine in Burkina Faso. The results support an increase in current hard-rock carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant capacity and outlines an economically viable heap leach facility at the end of CIL[…]

GR Engineering Services says it has entered into a contract with Saracen Mineral Holdings that will see the company carry out the engineering design, procurement and construction of expansion works on its mineral processing plant at the Carosue Dam gold operations, in Western Australia. The works under the contract include the upgrade of the existing[…]