Archives: Mining events

The BattleBorn hackathon starts Friday March 9 and is a 54 hour, weekend-long open innovation event to be held at Rob Roy’s Innevation Center in Las Vegas, featuring real data and challenges direct from Barrick’s mining operations. Participants will be presented with four challenges and tasked with the opportunity of identifying inefficiencies and developing technical[…]

World-leading and highly-respected brand in hydraulic attachment industry, Rammer is celebrating its 40th birthday this year. The success was born in Finland and is now a global brand, part of Sandvik, one of the world’s largest producers of capital equipment for mining. The growth, success and popularity of the Rammer brand has been built upon[…]

Nominations are sought for the next series of inductions into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame which will take place in Denver again in February 2019. Please send nominations to [email protected] or [email protected]. If you would be interested in joining the global judging panel, contact John. Anyone wishing to see the pictures from last year’s[…]

Few, if any, tech accelerators have a presence in San Juan, Argentina. The province, located in northwest Argentina, is known more for mining than machine learning. But to say there is no tech community in San Juan would be far from true, something Bill Wall, Barrick’s Director of Digital for South America, discovered last September.[…]

NORCAT, a global leader in the development and provision of skilled labour training and development services, is unveiling multiple learning technologies at PDAC that are poised to transform how the global mining industry trains and educates its workforce. Over the past three years, NORCAT has engaged multiple stakeholders in the global mining industry to better[…]

Newmont Mining Corp’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Gary J. Goldberg, received the Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal for his leadership and contributions to the mining industry in “transforming organizations to elite status of value, sustainability and safety.” The award was presented by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) during[…]

As the mining industry prepares to gather at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference in Toronto, March 4-7, Goldcorp’s #DisruptMining event held on Sunday March 4 highlights the innovators and technology leaders in the mining industry. Sandvik was eager to play an active part in 2018 as a sponsor of the event.[…]

Goldcorp has announced the four finalists and eight semi-finalists for #DisruptMining 2018, an innovation accelerator designed to encourage new technologies and ideas to solve some of the biggest challenges in mining, with a $1 million investment up for grabs. “Over 100 impressive submissions were received, making for a difficult selection process to determine finalists.” The[…]

Mining must be at the heart of economic empowerment and to integrate more closely with the wider economy, according to Sulemanu Koney, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Chamber of Mines. He believes mining in his country must play a key role in its national development as well as bring benefits to the economies of countries cross[…]

One of the points of contention between mining companies and mining ministers attending this week’s Mining Indaba in Cape Town was, as it has been at other times when commodity prices have risen, increased government charges. Ivanhoe Mines founder Robert Friedland said he is ready to pay higher royalties and taxes as proposed by a[…]