Archives: Mining people

Having left TOMRA Mining more than a decade ago only to return to the Germany-based company in November, Kai Bartram’s re-arrival at the sensor-based sorting firm represents a good time to take stock and reflect on how far the mining sector has come with its understanding and acceptance of this type of pre-concentration technology. Bartram,[…]

Less than a year after first ore was produced at South Flank, BHP has now approved moving the US$3.6 billion mine to autonomous haulage. Autonomous haulage will be phased in across five Autonomous Operation Zones (AOZs), beginning in June 2022. By September 2023, the entire fleet of 41 Komatsu 930E-5 haul trucks at South Flank[…]

On December 27, 2021, Hermann Paus, entrepreneur and founder of H. Paus Maschinenfabrik GmbH, passed away. He would have turned 90 on January 28. Hermann Paus was a trained agricultural machinery engineer, but then founded his company in 1968, together with his wife Agnes, to manufacture construction machinery. The product range expanded rapidly: he started[…]

Speaking in advance of the landmark Future Minerals Summit (FMS) in Saudi Arabia, on January 11-13, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Robert Friedland, has spoken of his excitement at the development of the largely unexplored, mineral-rich Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) region. He described the forthcoming summit as “very important” for the mining[…]

Southern Innovation, a developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art real-time materials analysis equipment for the global mining industry, says it has taken a strategic step forward in sales and marketing with the appointment of Steve Russell as Head of Sales and Business Development. Russell, currently Director of Mining at Scott Automation & Robotics, joins the Southern[…]

SNC-Lavalin has appointed Dr Trevor Sparks as Global Vice-President of Tailings and Water Management for the company’s Mining & Metallurgy business. Trevor is based in the UK and will lead the expansion of the company’s tailings and water management global business in the mining industry, working in collaboration with teams around the world. Cesar Inostroza,[…]

BHP is one of the most experienced global miners in terms of fully autonomous blasthole drilling, now with a large fleet and having used both new autonomous machines as well as retrofitting older models in the Pilbara going back some years across its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operations – most recently at South Flank[…]

Ralf Hennecke has been appointed as the Managing Director of BME, a division of the Omnia Group, with effect from December 1, 2021. Hennecke started his career in 1987 at Rand Mines Limited and was employed at Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, following which he joined Omnia BME in 1995. He has deep operational, marketing, sales, commercial[…]

Frontline work management software company, Commit Works, has, this week, handed over the reins to newly appointed CEO, James Aleman. Aleman comes to Commit Works equipped with 25 years of Software-as-a-Service knowledge and experience offering solutions to a variety of asset-intensive industries including mining and construction. Andrew Jessett, Acting CEO at Commit Works and Australasian[…]

It isn’t often that you get to talk with the top technology gurus at Caterpillar about the future of mining and the future of automation in mining. Paul Moore, IM Editorial Director had just such a sit-down meeting at MINExpo 2021 with Karl Weiss, Chief Technology Officer; Michael Murphy, Chief Engineer for Mining Technology; and[…]