Archives: Mining maintenance

With the implementation of the Integrated Operations Centre (CIO), the Quellaveco copper mine in Peru will become the first Anglo American operation in the world that has been 100% digital since its inception. Anglo American Peru comments: “Thus, while other mines adapt their processes to technology, a project conceived to put data at the service[…]

In an interview with Codelco managers back in July 2020, the Chilean copper mining giant told IM that it was planning to trial an Epiroc ST14 Battery LHD. While the delivery of the machine was delayed due to COVID-19 and other operational reasons, the company recently stated that the unit will soon begin its pilot[…]

Murray & Roberts owns a controlling share in Insig Technologies, a rapidly growing mining centric digitalisation, electrification, interoperability and automation solutions company based out of Perth in Australia. It assists its clients – both Murray & Roberts mining platform companies, their mining clients and other miners, to produce customised, fit-for-purpose mining solutions, and in addition[…]

In the mining industry, operators have long resigned themselves to the laborious and dangerous process of manually cleaning accumulated salts from the wastewater passing through the weirs, baffles, and troughs of clarifier and thickener tanks. The salt build-up can accumulate at a surprising rate and quickly harden to halt the function of the weirs, tanks,[…]

On February 22, CHN Energy owned coal operation Shengli Energy accomplished the trial operation of unmanned mining trucks with both zero and full load, it said marking the fact that the company’s efforts of building intelligent open-cut mines had entered into a new stage. The unmanned control system for mining trucks realises autonomous operation of[…]

Cummins Inc says it will open a new Powertrain Test Facility at the Darlington, UK campus to help accelerate the move towards cleaner, next generation power technologies focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality. Ground preparation work for the new facility is now underway with the first phase of the £14 million[…]

For the first time in mining history, trucks equipped with Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling have autonomously moved more than 1 billion tonnes of material in less than a year. Roughly 1.2 billion tonnes (1.3 billion tons) were autonomously hauled in 2021 using Command for hauling. In total, Command for hauling trucks have autonomously and[…]

A new app is helping Sandvik field service engineers solve even the most complex problems, no matter where in the world they are. Technology is great, but at some point, a technician needs to do actual work on a machine. But what if technology and practicality could work together? That’s exactly what is happening at[…]

In what it says is a world-first technology project, global mining company PT Freeport Indonesia has rolled out a fully autonomous fleet of mobile rockbreakers at its West Papuan mine in partnership with smart technology specialist RCT. PT Freeport’s industry-leading corporate policies mandate safer mining practices to remove personnel from working in areas of the[…]

Rolling off its production line today was the 400 t (metric) class diesel-electric AC drive XDE440 mining truck, claimed as the world’s largest by Xuzhou-headquartered Chinese construction and mining equipment giant XCMG. XCMG stated: “The XDE440, the world’s largest rear-drive rigid mining car, has rolled off the production line. This is not only an important[…]