Archives: Mining events

Despite all the challenges of business travel and changing regulations due to COVID-19 – The Electric Mine 2022 conference, mine electrification focused event and one of the few dedicated face-to-face mining technology conferences to be scheduled in recent years, is now just over a week away in Stockholm, Sweden, being held 17-18 February at the[…]

Nussir ASA and its ambition to develop the world’s first zero-emission copper mine in Kvalsund, Norway, will end up becoming a case study the whole mining sector learns from. While some pioneering mining projects are aiming for all-electric operations through the use of battery-electric equipment, Nussir argues its copper project would be the first truly[…]

MacLean Engineering has been a fast mover when it comes to leveraging battery-electric equipment, having announced an EV Series platform back in September 2016 and rolled out electrified machinery across its production support offering in the five-and-a-half-years since. A family-owned company with roots in Canada’s mining technology heartland – Sudbury – MacLean is continuing to[…]

There remains only one conference in the world devoted to the subject of In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC), an approach to mining that is seeing a high level of advanced studies as well as actual implementation – largely due to the fact that it is dominated by electric power so for some operations it allows[…]

Due to the significant rise of COVID-19 cases around Australia, Beacon Events, the organisers of the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC), has announced the eighth edition will be rescheduled. IMARC Managing Director, Anita Richards, said the health, safety and wellbeing of attendees and employees remained the organisers’ number one priority, and rescheduling the event[…]

Speaking in advance of the landmark Future Minerals Summit (FMS) in Saudi Arabia, on January 11-13, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Robert Friedland, has spoken of his excitement at the development of the largely unexplored, mineral-rich Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) region. He described the forthcoming summit as “very important” for the mining[…]

CR Digital has built a virtual simulator to, it says, bring the Titan 3330 Load Haul Optimization System out to the mine site. Players can experience Titan 3330 as if they’re the operators of a backhoe excavator, trying to hit target payloads and getting real-time feedback on their accuracy. The experience is as realistic as[…]

The COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit has made it clear the Australian Government will largely rely on private and listed companies adopting new green technologies to hit net-zero by 2050, according to the organisers of IMARC. Nowhere will this be more apparent than in Australia’s booming resources sector, and in perhaps no other sector is there[…]

We’ve all heard about the sustained pressures mining companies are facing from stakeholders when it comes to changing the way they do business, with the use of new technology often touted as the way to transform the sector for the good of the industry and society. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced, these technologies[…]

The future replacement mining fleet at the Kamoa-Kakula underground copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will likely feature battery-electric vehicles – that was the statement from Pierre Joubert, Executive Vice President – Technical Services, Ivanhoe Mines, at the Energy and Mines Virtual World Congress today. In his presentation, ‘Decarbonising Fleets: The Road[…]