Archives: Mining people

Crushing, grinding, flotation, solvent extraction, electro winning, tailings management…Metso Outotec covers it all. The new mineral processing entity might be less than a week old, but many in the industry would have, no doubt, had some burning questions to ask since the planned merger was announced on July 4, 2019. IM had a chance to[…]

Rio Tinto has added a new role to its Executive Committee as it considers the next phase of its transformation to, it says, reinforce the company’s commitment to strategy, technology and climate change in a new era. Peter Toth will become Group Executive, Strategy and Development with a focus on leading Rio Tinto’s transformation efforts[…]

There has been a lot of very general talk of a “new normal” in mining, of new ways of mines doing things during the COVID-19 pandemic – a lot of it focussed mainly on a perceived new introduction or speeding up of autonomous operations and without much detail. To get to the bottom of what[…]

Need to know how to correctly check the track sag on your mining excavator? What about how to discharge the accumulators in a hydraulic system? Want to complete classes to expand your certification? Hitachi says its mining product experts are ready to answer all these questions and others through a new Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)[…]

B2Gold Corp has published its fourth annual Responsible Mining Report – Raising the Bar – which details B2Gold’s global economic contributions and its environment, social, and governance management practices and the company’s performance against key indicators in 2019. One interesting aspect addressed in the report’s section on occupational health and safety is that of its[…]

BHP says technology is enabling people in critical roles at its mine sites to work remotely as it continue to adapt to new ways of working in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak. Some of the teams on BHP mine sites require specialised equipment and computer programs to carry out their work but[…]

Sudbury, Ontario-based NORCAT, a leader in the development and provision of skilled labour training services for the global mining industry, has announced a C$1.3 million investment from Future Skills Centre to develop, test, and deploy a series of technology-enabled blended learning programs that will transform how the Canadian mining industry trains and educates its workforce.[…]

Adani has awarded its largest construction contract for the Carmichael Project to date to Queensland-based BMD, taking the total value of contracts awarded to over A$1 billion. Adani Mining CEO Lucas Dow said BMD had been awarded a A$350 million plus contract to deliver civil construction works for the Carmichael Rail Network, delivering jobs and[…]

The COVID-19 crisis has brought many new workforce development challenges to the mining sector, making it more difficult to optimise workforce performance without the right tools. Remote working and physical distancing make it more difficult to deliver effective training interventions. Immersive Technologies says it is leading efforts to rethink and redesign training technologies to ensure[…]

Fatigue Science, a provider of predictive human performance data to mining and other industries, announced on May 28 the launch of ReadiAnalytics, which it says is a first-of-its-kind analytics platform. The company says: “ReadiAnalytics delivers real-time, validated, and objective insights into workforce fatigue levels and its root causes” and added that it launched with deployments[…]