Archives: Mining people

Mining products and services provider, Schlam, has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, Matt Thomas (pictured), and new Chief Financial Officer, Ron Kurniadi. Current CEO and Founder, Ryan Schlam, will continue as Executive Director on the Schlam Board. Thomas is an experienced CEO who has previously held similar positions with Coffey International, ASCO Group and[…]

Fatigue Science, a global leader in providing human fatigue and performance predictive analytics and fatigue management information systems to heavy industry including mining, has announced the launch of 14-Day Fatigue Forecasting. The company said this “breakthrough advancement” in fatigue management technology is a powerful new addition to its Readi™ Enterprise Suite software platform. “Readi Enterprise[…]

With mining operators under growing pressure to perform in the face of falling ore grades, the need to drill deeper in search of new resources and an industry-wide skills shortage, the ability to leverage reliable and flexible communication systems is growing in importance, writes Martin Killian*, IoT Solution Architect at Speedcast. Leading mining operators have[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology says it is introducing a new version of its operator training simulator to safely train underground drill operators or maintenance teams. The new Digital DrillerTM family  – which now includes the DS422i – “provides advanced simulator training having been designed specifically to improve both operator and drilling performance, delivering real[…]

Orange Business Services, a network-native digital services company, and De Beers Marine South Africa, a division of De Beers – the world’s leading diamond company, have jointly installed and tested a customised IoT solution to provide geofencing to maintain safe working distances for crew around the heavy machinery involved in marine diamond mining operations. The[…]

FLSmidth has recently appointed Regional Presidents for Australia and South America and confirmed the start date of the incoming Region President for India. Tamer Eid (pictured) has been named as the new President for the Australia region, effective September 14, 2020. Over his career, Tamer has held various senior executive and technical roles in the[…]

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Minister for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan officially opened leading Caterpillar dealer WesTrac’s new Technology Training Centre near the South West town of Collie on August 27, 2020. The centre is only the second such training facility in the world focusing on the technical skills required to operate autonomous equipment[…]

Process IQ recently opened a new office in Toronto, Canada to accommodate rapid growth in the process automation and digital transformation in the mining and minerals processing industry. Process IQ focuses on delivering process optimisation to the mining and mineral processing industry to help with increasing throughout recovery and efficiency. In addition to the corporate[…]

Mining engineer, Christofer Catania, has been appointed General Manager of Australia-based engineering consultancy firm, MEC Mining, almost 15 years after becoming one of MEC’s first university vacation students. Back then MEC Mining serviced Queensland’s coal industry and Catania was studying at university in Brisbane when he began work for the company’s three founding directors. MEC[…]

MacLean Engineering’s investment in Africa is paying off, with multiple production support vehicle sales recently secured on the back of an increased presence in South Africa. Having last month bolstered its largest single fleet in Africa to 11 vehicles at the Kibali gold mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the company is now busy[…]