Archives: Mining people

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[…]

Di-Corp, a Canada-based manufacturer and distributor of down-hole consumables for the mineral exploration industry, has announced a dedicated West Africa sales representative located in Accra, Ghana. The Di-Corp Accra representative will support existing and new customers in the region by providing an in-region contact who can coordinate the delivery of high-quality drill rod, diamond tooling,[…]

CIM (The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum) has welcomed former Falconbride and Xstrata executive, Ian Pearce, to the CIM Council in the role of Incoming President-Elect from 2024-2025. The role of Incoming President-Elect is a dynamic position that will see Pearce work closely with the President and President-Elect to provide direction to CIM[…]

Canadian oil sands giant Suncor, which now also majority owns and operates the adjacent Syncrude operations, reported a fatality at its Base plant mining operations on January 6, 2022. The incident occurred when one heavy haul truck rear-ended a second heavy haul truck while they were both driving up a mine haul ramp. The two workers[…]

The Odyssey Mine near the town of Malartic in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of northern Quebec has entered into a collaboration agreement with the Centre de formation professionnelle Val-d’Or and Epiroc under which the mine’s operators will be trained using simulators that will immerse them in a virtual and controlled mining environment. The mine is owned[…]

Hellas Gold SA, part of Eldorado Gold, has become the first mining company in Greece to deploy Immersive Technologies’ simulation-based training, marking the 47th country where Immersive Technologies’ workforce training systems have been deployed. Immersive Technologies says it is known for providing a rapid return on investment with a proven formula that combines ‘People +[…]

MacLean Engineering has been a fast mover when it comes to leveraging battery-electric equipment, having announced an EV Series platform back in September 2016 and rolled out electrified machinery across its production support offering in the five-and-a-half-years since. A family-owned company with roots in Canada’s mining technology heartland – Sudbury – MacLean is continuing to[…]

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[…]