Archives: Mine ventilation

The true all electric mine is not just about the LHDs and haul trucks, it has to include all the supporting underground equipment, from service vehicles to shotcreters, graders, scalers, cassette vehicles, scissor lifts and personnel carriers. The move to electrify these machines is being led by a group of innovative companies worldwide, one of[…]

Newtrax Technologies Inc says it has achieved significant improvements in safety operations at Gold Fields’ Granny Smith mine with the implementation of digital evacuation notification technology. It is the second mine in the world equipped with such a system. “Safety is our number one priority.” says Michael Place, Unit Manager of Projects from Granny Smith.[…]

Goldcorp has announced that the Government of Canada intends to support its Borden Project as the recipient of a C$5 million investment designed to spur innovation in cleaner, more sustainable mining. The Borden Project, located in Chapleau, Ontario, will be the first underground mine in Canada to replace all diesel mobile equipment with battery electric[…]

STRACON SA, a majority owned subsidiary of Ashmore Group, announced that it acquired, through its wholly owned subsidiary STRACON International SAC, a 60% controlling interest in Dumas Holdings Inc. Dumas is a leading, full-service, underground mining contractor, focused on providing services to clients in Canada and Mexico. Dumas specialises in underground mine construction, mine development,[…]

There are major ownership changes planned for PT-Freeport Indonesia, with shares to change hands between PT Inalum, Freeport McMoRan (FCX) and current JV partner Rio Tinto, where ultimately PT Inalum’s share ownership will be 51.2% of PT-FI (subject to a dividend assignment mechanism to replicate the Joint Venture economics), and FCX’s ownership will be 48.8%.[…]

From Japan in the east to the USA in the west, Wassara’s water-powered hammers are today a well-known brand and technology in the drilling industry. A little more than half of the company’s sales goes to the external market while the rest goes to the mother company LKAB. At the very heart of the Wassara[…]

Polska Grupa Górnicza SA (PGG) is a leader in hard coal mining in the European Union, supplying 32 Mt of coal to customers annually. The company is systematically improving its production process and has recently established an office for innovation and implementation of new technologies. It is responsible for acquiring and implementing new technologies, both[…]

The South African gold mining industry is currently under a lot of financial pressure due to a multitude of reasons. Many of these companies are also mining using systems first designed decades ago, that may no longer be applicable to the present-day mining environment. Mining companies have therefore started optimising and modernising some of their[…]

The Inlandsis Fund, based in Quebec, and Environmental Commodities Corp (ECC), based in Maryland, have entered into a long-term agreement to expand a mine methane abatement project by deploying additional incineration systems that use advanced control and combustion technologies.  Operating on CONSOL’s Bailey mine, the project abates mine methane using ECC’s proprietary mobile incineration system. […]

Access to a ventilation fan performance test column installed at Marthinusen & Coutts Zambia, a division of ACTOM (Pty) Ltd, it says offers a major advantage to mines on the Zambian and DRC Copperbelt. Significantly, this is the only fan test column in the region and was commissioned at the Kitwe based facility in the[…]