Archives: Mine ventilation

InSig Technologies says it and its partner company, RUC Cementation Mining, have successfully installed and commissioned its Smart Gas monitoring solution at the Mount Morgans underground operation in Western Australia. This solution incorporates several fixed gas monitoring stations situated strategically throughout the underground mine, with these stations providing real-time gas level readouts to the control[…]

Vedanta’s Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL), one of the world’s largest zinc-lead-silver producers, in its Q1 2020 report says that a major milestone has been achieved with the start of ore hauling post commissioning of the 955 m, 7.5 m diameter production shaft during the quarter. While the underground mine has been operating for a number[…]

On April 22, 2020, the air intake shaft at the Shaling gold mine reached the depth of 1,000 m. As the depth of auxiliary shaft exceeded 1,000 m on February 29, 2020, it means both shafts constructed by JCHX have now exceeded a depth of 1,000 m within only one year, breaking the shaft sinking[…]

In mid-November 2020, more machines produced by Poland’s underground load and haul equipment and solutions major KGHM ZANAM SA will enter the German market. Thanks to winning a recent tender, seven LKP-0703 LHDs will be supplied to the K+S Zielitz potash mining operation. KGHM ZANAM said the contract has been concluded “as an effect of[…]

Vale has topped its fellow Tier 1 miners with a plan to invest at least $2 billion in an effort to combat climate change. The amount, the largest ever committed by the mining industry to combat climate change, according to the company, is geared towards reducing its direct and indirect absolute emissions (Scope 1 and[…]

Injection Hoisting first came to the attention of the global mining audience after Cementation Canada, the technology developers, took the top prize along with KORE Geosystems at the DisruptMining event in 2017. Back then, the concept was viewed as a potential alternative to the labour- and cost-intensive process of shaft sinking. More than three years[…]

Foran Mining Corporation recently filed an independent NI 43-101 technical report for the Pre-feasibility Study (PFS) on the company’s McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold-silver project in eastern Saskatchewan. The report was authored by byAGP Mining Consultants Inc (AGP). McIlvenna Bay is the largest undeveloped VMS deposit in the region. This prolific metallogenic belt is host to 29[…]

Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced today that its subsidiary, Frontier-Kemper Constructors, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $63.7 million by Warrior Met Coal BCE, LLC for the Blue Creek Energy Mine #1 project in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The scope of work includes the excavation and construction[…]

When Eldorado Gold acquired the Lamaque project, near Val-d’Or, Quebec, from Integra Resources back in 2017, many observers would have assumed the larger company would just follow the blueprint set out by the junior miner. That plan – outlined in a February 2017 preliminary economic assessment (PEA) – envisaged the building of a high-grade underground[…]

At the SME MineXchange conference in February 2020, Coeur Mining reviewed its automation journey so far at the Coeur Alaska Kensington gold mine, whichis located about 45 miles NW of Juneau. The mine started production in July 2010 and passed 1 Moz by 2019. The mine produces gold concentrate for smelter refining and has been[…]