Archives: Mining events

Following De Beers Group’s recent CEO Safety Summit, the diamond miner says it is facilitating co-design sessions necessary to establish roadmaps for each operation as part of the process towards finalising a group-wide safety framework. The CEO Safety Summit initiative, now in its third year, is part of the company’s commitment to achieve zero harm[…]

Strata Worldwide is building on its Australia-first application of proximity detection on underground shuttle cars in a Queensland coal mine and expects to see the same mine install and commission a vehicle-to-vehicle interaction component within the next 12-18 months. Strata said earlier this month that, as a proactive safety measure, one of the world’s leading[…]

Developing a new mining truck is a large, complex task where numerous questions and challenges must be resolved, according to Christopher B Althausen, Director of Sales & Marketing at Pioneer Solutions LLC. Althausen will be speaking at the upcoming Truck & Shovel Conference, in Singapore, on September 19, presenting, “Mining truck design and development: challenges,[…]

Comet Resources has launched a scoping study into building a pilot plant to test a potential new nickel processing breakthrough, Director Hugh Morgan said on the final day of the Paydirt 2019 Africa Downunder mining conference in Perth, Australia. The company’s Titan nickel project, in Nigeria, is one of those rare discoveries where the metal[…]

The big two global giants in autonomous mining truck solutions continue to battle it out in chasing new contracts, especially for greenfield mines that offer a chance to supply more profitable “new” autonomous fleets as opposed to retrofitting autonomous capability onto existing fleets. The main battle grounds remain Australian iron ore in Western Australia’s Pilbara[…]

LiuGong has used the backdrop of the 15th Beijing International Construction Machinery Exhibition & Seminar (BICES 2019) in China to launch a new range of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) as well as remote controlled ‘intelligent’ wheel loaders based on 5G technology. At BICES 2019, LiuGong is showing three BEVs, including two excavators – the 906E-EV and[…]

Putzmeister says it is ready to show off its new developments in underground mine reinforcement at the upcoming Perumin 2019 conference, in Arequipa, September 16-20. At this year’s event, held at the Cerro Juli Convention Center, the company is set to show off its Wetkret 4 concrete sprayer, Geokret 2.0 for concrete spraying scanning and[…]

Doppelmayr has turned its RopeCon® system on its head, designing a new vertical material transport concept for the underground mining space called the Vertical Shaft Conveyor. Unveiling the concept at the AIMEX 2019 event in Sydney, Australia, the company said the Vertical Shaft Conveyor “opens up new material transport options for underground mining and gives[…]

Day one of AIMEX 2019 in Sydney, Australia, was as varied as mining events come. Against an exhibition backdrop that organisers say included more than 500 suppliers, leaders in the industry took to the conference stage to debate some of the industry hottest topics. The morning sessions started off with discussions on the relationship between[…]

As the future of mining is being discussed by all levels of government and across the wider community, one of the most important events of a decade will be held in Sydney, Australia, this week. The event will see the world’s mining leaders and decision-makers come together at what is Australia’s largest and longest-running mining[…]