Archives: Mine ventilation

Codelco, the Chilean copper mining giant, has awarded a consortium led by Acciona the infrastructure development works for the Chuquicamata Underground mine. The contract, valued at $200 million, covers various excavation, fortification and ancillary works, including more than 31 km of tunnels at the various levels of the mine and some 40,000 m3 of major[…]

The Pilar mine at the Caraiba Mining Complex in Bahia, Brazil, will soon have a high-tech, safe, and efficient underground mine cooling system through Howden and their TMVS – Total Mine Ventilation Solutions. The Caraiba Mining Complex is owned and operated by Ero Copper and is located in northeastern Bahia State, Brazil, approximately 385 km[…]

Master Drilling says it has partnered with a Russian company to form a new entity called Master Detra. Through this entity, it will offer raise bore services to the Russian and Kazakhstan markets. Master Drilling adds: “This partnership will assist us in understanding market conditions, culture, and language. Master Detra is now a leading turnkey[…]

Polish mining equipment company KGHM ZANAM Capital Group, part of copper and silver mining major KGHM Polska Miedź SA’s Group of Companies and its main underground machinery supplier as well as supplying solutions for other mining customers, was among the elite group of companies recently selected for funding as part of a “Fast Track” competition[…]

Sometimes advances are made by smaller mining companies who set out to make changes themselves using their own innovations. Çimnak Co, a subsidiary of Nuh Cement Inc in Turkey, supplies Nuh Cement with 3.7 Mt of marl annually. Diesel-powered machinery is employed at the quarries and the annual diesel fuel consumption is well over 2[…]

Trials with all battery-electric underground equipment are ongoing with a number of major mining groups worldwide from Vale to Codelco and Barrick. At Sibanye-Stillwater’s US PGM mining complex in Montana, which includes the Stillwater and East Boulder mines, the company recently told IM it is currently trialling an Artisan Vehicles (part of Sandvik Mining and[…]

Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, has made public commitments in five areas of action associated with sustainability indicators for its operations and projects, approved by its Board of Directors, with explicit objectives for 2030 and that – in addition to cultural change, innovation, transparency and probity – will be part of the[…]

Glencore has become the latest mining major to plot a path to reach “net-zero emissions”, with a plan that includes the use of battery-electric vehicles at one of its underground operations in Canada and renewable power at its South Africa ferroalloy sites. The company has committed to reducing its total emissions footprint – Scope 1,[…]

Mine Master’s new Face Master 2.8ATEX is a 30 t, multipurpose, self-propelled two boom drill jumbo on a wheeled chassis. The machine is designed for drilling blast holes and roof bolting in coal and other mines with explosive hazards from methane. Due to the applied innovative solutions in the design of the FM 2.8ATEX, focused[…]

Minetek has been chosen to install an interim primary ventilation solution at Saracen Mineral Holdings’ Thunderbox operations in the northern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Saracen was looking for an innovative ventilation solution to replace the traditional axial fans that were not supplying the required ventilation to increase production at the site, Minetek said. The[…]