Archives: Mining equipment

Fortescue Metals Group will this week be joined by students across Western Australia to participate in a demonstration of the company successfully operating a dozer at its Pilbara operations from 1,500 kilometres away in Perth, Western Australia. In an Australian-first demonstration of Cat® MineStarTM Command for dozing’s long range remote operational capability, team members are[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions looks set to provide Australian customers with a more efficient service after establishing a new “state-of-the-art warehouse” in Perth, Western Australia. The long-term lease for the purpose-built warehouse will help consolidate Sandvik’s Perth operations, with the facility located at Roe Highway Logistics park, alongside a purpose-built workshop announced late last[…]

Swick Mining’s latest market update has indicated its postponed demerger of Orexplore should now go ahead by the end of the year, allowing it to concentrate on the development of new underground drilling technologies including battery-electric diamond drill rigs and remote control drilling. In a release issued today, Swick said it was recommencing the demerger[…]

Insig Technologies says it is partnering with the Ampcontrol Group of Companies to establish a service centre in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to support, repair and service Ampcontrol products for the Western Australia market. Insig Technologies will also be a distributor for the Ampcontrol multifunction outlet starter, Rockstarter, for underground hard-rock mining, tunnelling and other industrial[…]

Rio Tinto has enlisted the help of Immersive Technologies and its equipment simulators to further its autonomous haulage footprint at the new Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia. The mine, which will operate Caterpillar autonomous trucks equipped with Cat MineStar™ Command for Hauling system, will use simulation-based training solutions from Immersive Technologies to address[…]

Working directly with major Russian telecomms companies, Russia’s leading mining operators are some of the progressive worldwide in implementing private LTE wireless network capabilities to facilitate greater automation and production efficiency. The latest to roll out private LTE is gold mining major Polyus. The company exclusively told IM that it is in the process of[…]

Normet brought its sprayed concrete layer thickness control system, the SmartScan, to the market in 2019. The SmartScan is aimed at all underground sprayed concrete applications to deliver accurate and reliable sprayed concrete layer thickness information for the sprayer operator, and fast and easy reporting for management purposes. The main purpose of the SmartScan system[…]

NRW has received a letter of intent from Karara Mining Ltd to carry out mining services works at the Karara iron ore mine in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Subject to reaching agreement with Karara, the anticipated value of the contract is around A$702 million ($529 million) over a five-year duration with a project[…]

You do not get much more remote than OZ Minerals’ West Musgrave copper-nickel project. Located in the Ngaanyatjarra Aboriginal Lands of central Western Australia, it is some 1,300 km northeast of Perth and 1,400 km northwest of Adelaide; near the intersection of the borders between Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. The nearest[…]

Mining software solutions major Datamine has announced a new partnership with LAB3, and their SensorMine solution, described as a “gateway to a goldmine of real-time data.” Datamine says LAB3 empowers organisations to drive greater business value with controlled and scalable technology creating innovative and integrated solutions. The statement said: “Within the mining industry LAB3 offers a solution.[…]