Archives: Mining maintenance

About 80% of direct emissions at the Collahuasi copper mine in northern Chile (Anglo American 44%, Glencore 44%) come from the consumption of diesel, especially from mining trucks. As discussed in its recently released 2021 Sustainability Report, the miner’s efforts related to Scope 1 emissions are therefore focused on reducing the use of this fuel[…]

Epiroc Ground Support and Weber Mining and Tunnelling, a global leader in ground control chemicals and technologies, have partnered together to create innovative resins that the companies say “will undoubtedly optimise and improve bolting safety and efficiency in the mining industry.” The Potentia® Thixo resin is the first to result from the partnership. They added[…]

The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to mining – and in particular to mineral processing – is proving crucial to optimisation and as part of the industry’s journey to remotely monitored and truly autonomous processing operations. There are a number of companies involved both large and small. IM recently spoke to one of the innovative[…]

Macmahon has teamed up with BKT Tires, Tradefaire International and RUD Chains to produce what it says is the world’s first custom underground loader tyre. The contract mining major states: “The rough terrain of our mine sites means we need to fit our loader tyres with protective chains to last longer and reduce downtime. Unfortunately,[…]

The use of an all-terrain unmanned ground vehicle, incorporation of military spec hardware and sensors, a bank of lead/acid batteries, and the ingenuity of three mechatronics graduates have brought Newcrest Mining closer to its goal of automating the PC1 extraction level at its Cadia East gold-copper underground mine in New South Wales, Australia. The company[…]

Conveyor safety is not a modern trend bred by government regulation, it’s a common-sense idea as old as the first conveyor design, R Todd Swinderman, CEO Emeritus, Martin Engineering, says. In the modern age, safety is a key factor in worker protection, reduced insurance rates and a lower total cost of operation. There are several[…]

Enerpac has announced the new PP-Series electric- and diesel-powered power packs to supply hydraulic flow to Enerpac portable machine tools, including flange facing machines, clamshell cutters, hot tapping machines and decommissioning tools – tools of which are regularly used on mine sites. The hydraulic power packs are also compatible with other brands of portable machine[…]

ABB in Australia recently developed an innovative electric charging solution for Glencore’s CSA copper mine in New South Wales (NSW), based on technology that will enable the transition to electric vehicles for mining companies both locally and globally. The CSA Mine at Cobar is one of Australia’s highest grade copper mines. The underground mine, which[…]

Gold Fields’ South Deep gold mine in South Africa continues to enhance its EMESRT Level 9 collision avoidance capability (technologies that actually intervene in terms of automated machine control to prevent or mitigate an unsafe interaction) in the form of an ongoing project with Nerospec company Nerospec OSCON, based in Bromhof, Randburg. “We are proud[…]

RPMGlobal is celebrating the anniversary of one of the mining industry’s leading asset management solutions, AMT, which has been used by miners, OEMs and mining contractors for two decades. AMT was first introduced to the mining industry in 2002 as a solution for original equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar, to manage complicated maintenance contracts between their dealers[…]