Archives: Mine ventilation

In the company’s recently released annual report, Germany-headquartered rail bound mining transport and trackless electric mobile equipment major SMT Scharf gave some clues as to how it intends to grow its battery electric underground mining equipment business. Its long electrical expertise and investments such as acquiring RDH Mining Equipment in Alban, Ontario in 2018, enables[…]

Leading underground mining services contractor Redpath Australia has announced the award of a “significant surface raisebore contract” in New South Wales, for an unnamed operation in southeastern Australia. The contract scope involves three Redbore rigs; Redbore 100, Redbore 90EX and Redbore 90. All three rigs are designed and manufactured in North Bay, Canada, and are[…]

Nevada Copper Corp has provided an operations update for Q1 2021 covering progress at its Pumpkin Hollow copper mining operations in Nevada which include a high-grade underground mine and processing facility, which is now in the production stage, and a large-scale open pit project, which is advancing towards feasibility status. Notably the company successfully initiated[…]

New Swedish company Hypex Bio Explosives Technology AB (Hytech) has launched its potentially game changing innovation, the Hypex Bio nitrate free emulsion technology, into the mining market. “After significant research and development efforts, we can offer a CE marked, UN transport tested and verified civil emulsion explosive without NOx, nitrate leaching and crystallisation issues,” said[…]

Howden has signed a new partnership with VortexOHS™, a modular ventilation and occupational hygiene data collection and management system. This partnership, Howden says, further strengthens the ventilation expert’s commitment to mine ventilation solutions for the health and safety of customers worldwide. Howden’s Ventsim Design and Ventsim Control products help ensure mines can efficiently design and[…]

The underground mining landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years, with evolving battery technology acting as a catalyst to change in the industry. As part of the ongoing effort to lead the charge on this battery electric transformation, Epiroc has imported the very first Boltec M Battery rig onto Canadian soil. The fully mechanised bolter[…]

Antofagasta PLC has announced two new greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets as part of its Climate Change Strategy and its wider commitment to operate sustainably as a leading copper producer. One is to reduce the company’s direct (Scope 1) and indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions by 30%, or by 730,000 t of CO2e by 2025,[…]

There is a lot to take in from Anglo American’s technology update which was presented today by Tony O’Neill, the Group Technical Director, but what stands out is the comprehensive nature of its projects, which of course take in FutureSmart Mining™ Technologies from bulk ore sorting to coarse particle recovery, hydraulic dry stacking, microwave mining[…]

Along with the news of Ericsson’s participation in the new NEXGEN SIMS project, project coordinator Epiroc has also released a statement on the venture. “Collaboration and partnership among stakeholders that have different areas of expertise is increasingly important to successfully advance complex digital and automated systems that will improve the mining industry’s environmental impact, work[…]

Following the recent addition of VivoPower, the owner of electric mine mobility company Tembo e-LV Power to the ranks of the Electric Mine Consortium in April, four more companies have now signed up to work with the group, namely gold and copper mining major Evolution Mining, nickel and gold junior Blackstone Minerals, electric mining light[…]