Archives: Mining maintenance

The 300th MacLean Engineering SL3 Scissor Lift has come off the production line in the company’s Owen Sound, Ontario, manufacturing facility, some two decades after its initial introduction to the mining industry, destined for a longstanding customer’s mining operation in the Sudbury basin. As one of the original MacLean Mine-Mate™ Utility Vehicle solutions for mine[…]

Nordisk Bergteknik has entered into a letter of intent regarding the acquisition of all shares in the Finnish underground mining contractor Power Mining Oy, including the Swedish subsidiary Power Mining Sverige AB. Power Mining has sales of approximately SEK160 million on annual basis, with an EBIT margin that was very strong during the last financial[…]

Subsoil Technologies recently delivered a flagship underground communication network from Australia-based Northern Lights Technologies’ (NLT) to gold miner Al Masane Al Kobra Mining Company (AMAK Mining) in Saudi Arabia. The solution delivered to AMAK Mining includes a 1 Gbps WiFi network, real time positioning system for people and equipment with evacuation system and rugged mine[…]

Caterpillar Inc has announced a collaboration with Luck Stone, the USA’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel, to deploy Caterpillar’s autonomous solution to Luck Stone’s Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Virginia. This will be Caterpillar’s first autonomous deployment in the aggregates industry and will expand the company’s autonomous truck fleet[…]

SafeAI, a global leader in autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, has announced a $38 million Series B round of funding with key investors including Builders VC,  McKinley Management, George Kaiser Family Foundation, and Energy Innovation Capital. Additionally, Moog Inc joined the round as a strategic investor. SafeAI retrofits construction and mining vehicles with aftermarket hardware[…]

At the IMARC show in Sydney in early November 2022, IM met with MacLean Engineering’s Dan Stern, Senior Product Manager and Peter Black, Technical Sales Manager, to talk about one of its latest battery electric innovations – the ML5 BEV Multi Lift  – which has been developed specifically for the Australian market initially and will[…]

Anglo American says it has implemented cutting-edge technology at the Quellaveco copper mine in Peru with which it is possible to create a virtual replica that simulates everything that happens in its process plant, and with this, digital mining specialists can carry out predictive tests that help reduce security risks, optimise the use of resources[…]

The case for digitalisation is clear, according to AspenTech’s Jeannette McGill*, with digitalisation being critical for the metals and mining industry to achieve sustainability and operational excellence in the years ahead. This is why the more forward-looking decision makers in the mining industry are embedding digital capabilities in their operations so they remain agile, competitive[…]

Metso Outotec says it has been awarded a shutdown service contract worth more than €10 million ($10.5 million) for a flash smelting furnace at a copper processing facility in South America. The company’s scope of delivery includes a complete reconstruction of the furnace, consisting of demolition of the furnace, mechanical reconstruction of the walls and[…]

Global mining major BHP recently received the first hybrid crawler dozer in South America, which will start operating at the Escondida copper mine in Chile in December 2022. The initiative – led by the Vice President of Projects – it says is a sign of how the company seeks to advance in meeting its global[…]