Archives: Mining maintenance

FLSmidth has signed an agreement with Microsoft aimed at accelerating its digital journey, co-innovating and improving existing offerings, advancing its MissionZero sustainability ambition, and speeding up the delivery of productivity enhancements to customers. “The collaboration also seeks to increase our ability to demonstrate technological leadership in mining and cement in support of customers’ sustainability and[…]

CMOC-Northparkes Mines, located 30 km northwest of Parkes in New South Wales, has successfully taken its Lift 1 North (E26L1N) project into production. The Lift 1 North Project has taken 37 months from the approval on January 1, 2019 to the commencement of production on March 1 2022 which was an impressive five months ahead[…]

Following its groundbreaking progress in applying AI-based automation by retrofit to its mining trucks working with SafeAI on a proof of concept at Capricorn Metals’ Karlawinda gold operation and a subsequent MoU with SafeAI and Position Partners to roll out autonomy across 100 mixed fleet trucks at multiple sites, contractor MACA says it is also[…]

IM Editorial Director Paul Moore visited the new Tribe Tech Group autonomous reverse circulation rig factory in Mallusk, just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland, to find out more about this remarkable start-up company, which has its second hub in Leederville, Western Australia, that has set out to totally revolutionise RC drilling with its Tribe Tech[…]

The new control centre at Nornickel’s (Norilsk Nickel) Skalisty copper-nickel mine, part of its Polar Division, has now been opened. The facility makes it possible to remotely plan and monitor self-propelled drilling rigs, load rock mass from the tunnelling and blasting units, as well as schedule mining operations. Nornickel had invested RUB277 million in the[…]

The operators of Glencore’s George Fisher Mine (GFM) have praised Sandvik’s AutoMine® automation solution, saying it has increased productivity and cut loading times. Located 20 km north of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, GFM is an underground zinc, lead and silver operation that produces 3 Mt of ore and undertakes 11-12 km of development each year.[…]

In another move towards Caterpillar Inc’s exit from the coal and soft rock underground mining equipment markets, it and US company Simmons Equipment based in Tazewell, Virginia have announced that the two companies have signed an exclusive IP license agreement. The agreement grants Simmons Equipment exclusive global rights to manufacture certain low seam room and[…]

The FuelActive® floating fuel pickup unit offers a simple yet low maintenance and highly effective solution to the problem of fuel contamination that is rife in mining around the world due to a combination of particulates from dust and/or use of biodiesel or lower quality diesel. IM Editorial Director Paul Moore talked to the company[…]

Following Industry 4.0 trends, Poland’s mining equipment and technology major FAMUR says it is systematically developing training tools using virtual reality, remote diagnostics and field service smart glasses technology to operate equipment for various industry sectors. As part of this activity, it developed and implemented a concept to create an innovative SIGMA (Service in Grid[…]

The mining industry isn’t all about new machines and future technologies – mines also have to make the most of the fleets they already have. Teck Maintenance (TM) was established in late 2020 with the goal of enabling the Maintenance team to transform how assets are maintained and managed across Teck’s operations globally. Two programs[…]