Archives: Mine ventilation

Anglo American’s real-time data analytics platform, Operational Intelligence Suite (OiS), is helping its platinum subsidiary tackle potential health hazards at the Rustenburg base metals refinery in South Africa. The company’s Occupational Health and Information Management teams worked in partnership to develop OiS, which is able to interrogate data feeds, manual uploads and events, Anglo said.[…]

In a recent blog post, Goldcorp explained how ‘going electric’ at its Borden gold development project in Ontario, Canada, is having a positive impact on ventilation requirements and mine air heating. The company previously laid out plans to use all-electric equipment at the project with a fleet that includes Sandvik DD422IE automated battery/electric jumbos and[…]

Global engineering business Howden has acquired both Advanced Combustion Inc (ACI) and Advanced Fan Systems as it looks to expand its mine ventilation offering. ACI, located in Toronto, is the leading designer, manufacturer and installer of mine air heating equipment for the mining industry, according to Howden. Advanced Fan Systems, meanwhile, manufactures a line of[…]

Murray & Roberts Cementation reports that work is well underway on its contract at Kalagadi manganese mine in the Northern Cape, South Africa. This leading underground mining contractor, who formed a joint venture with BCM Underground Mining, is tasked with building up production to the shaft system’s nameplate capacity within the first 18 months of[…]

Cementation Canada Inc has been awarded the design and construction of the new internal underground shaft for the Onaping Depth Project at  Craig Mine, part of Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (Sudbury INO) in northeastern Ontario. The deposit is approximately 2,500 m below surface and is critical to the long-term sustainability of Sudbury INO’s operations[…]

An autonomous and teleremote solution from Epiroc has allowed Barrick Gold’s team at Hemlo in Ontario, Canada, to enhance safety, and reduce ventilation and climate control requirements, even as the underground mine goes deeper. These innovations are the most recent addition to an automation programme at Barrick’s Hemlo open stope mine. The programme began with[…]

Mine electrification, in open pits and underground, is inevitable. Whether the rationale is tied to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving employee health, cutting ventilation costs or increasing productivity, future operations will all be using a form of electricity to power machinery. While much of the technology to go all-electric remains in its infancy, a number[…]

Leveraging digital technology is said to be key to participating in the next wave of economic growth. At the very least using it will allow mines, process plants and other industrial operations to reduce operating costs. Fanie Steyn, Manager Rotating Machines at Zest WEG Group, says one of the areas that stands to be most[…]

With the recent proliferation of fibre-optic cables, an interest has emerged in their use as sensors. When appropriate hardware is employed, fibre optic cables can be used for both temperature and vibration monitoring and have significant potential in mine monitoring and equipment maintenance. November 13-15, 2018, in Perth, Western Australia, the first Asia Pacific Workshop[…]

Anaconda Mining Inc announces that the site set-up phase for the 10,000 t, underground bulk sample is nearing completion at its Goldboro Gold Project in Nova Scotia, Canada. Anaconda commenced site preparation towards the end of July and to date has achieved the following milestones: Hired local engineering and support staff to execute the Goldboro[…]