Archives: Mine ventilation

Maestro’s ventilation IIoT solutions it says have been successfully integrated into Howden’s Ventsim CONTROL ventilation optimisation software, thus strengthening Maestro’s mine ventilation solutions for customers around the world. Ventsim CONTROL can remotely monitor, control, and automate in real-time the total underground mine ventilation from the surface. Combined with Maestro’s Vigilante AQS™ & Zephyr AQS™ air[…]

Northvolt has signed a supply agreement with Pon Equipment for battery systems to be integrated into the Z-line series of battery electric excavators. An initial order of Voltpack Core lithium-ion battery systems will provide Pon, the Cat dealer for Norway and the Netherlands, with a technical solution to be used in combination with electric powertrains[…]

Pretivm Resources Inc is now at the start of a process to replace 13 diesel-powered 30 t payload underground haul trucks with battery electric zero emissions trucks at its Brucejack gold mine in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, approximately 65 km north of Stewart. For now, the plan is still at a trial stage, with one[…]

Foran Mining says it has bolstered the design team for its ongoing definitive feasibility study at the McIlvenna Bay project, in Saskatchewan, Canada, providing the company with the technical expertise to execute on its strategy of building the world’s first copper mine designed to be “carbon neutral” from day one of production. The advisors are[…]

Epiroc has agreed to acquire Meglab, a Canada-based company with expertise in providing electrification infrastructure solutions to mines, as it looks to further support mining customers in their transition to battery-electric vehicles. Meglab, based in Val-D’Or, Quebec, Canada, is a technology integrator that designs, manufactures, installs and supports practical and cost-effective electrification and telecommunications infrastructure[…]

As part of its work towards eliminating occupational disease, Teck has completed a pilot project using an innovative combination of on-the-ground data and video technology to help better understand potentially harmful dust exposures at a task level. The Nanozen pilot project, completed in 2020, was devised to understand task level exposures so the company could[…]

In Canada and some other countries with Arctic mines like Russia, as well as some high-altitude mines, the cold ambient surface temperatures require mines to use air heating. It is not for underground comfort – it is primarily to prevent shaft freeze up including utilities such as water that are entering the mine via the[…]

In December 2020, SIEMAG TECBERG and TNC Kazchrome JSC signed a contract for the delivery of shaft hoisting systems. Kazchrome is a fully integrated mining and metallurgical company in Kazakhstan covering all stages of the value chain from geological exploration to underground mining and the extraction of raw materials to the production of metallic products.[…]

The Redpath Group recently secured the sale of six Redbore raise drills destined for the Chilean market. Four of the drills are Redbore 50 MDURH model machines (multi-directional up-ream hydraulically powered drills), whereas the other two machines are of the Redbore 60 UR and Redbore 65 models, respectively. All six drills were designed, manufactured and[…]

In Q1 2021, dynaCERT says it has shipped or received confirmed orders of its flagship HG-1 HydraGEN™ technology units as well as its sister HydraGEN™ HG2 and HG-4C and HydraGEN™ HG-6C large capacity units to international mining companies operating in Russia, China, Brazil and Peru through sales to its arms-length dealer H2Tek specialising in the[…]