Archives: Mining people

Brisbane, Australia-based Components Only has charged Jeffery Chua with expanding the company’s heavy equipment components operations in his new role as Commercial Manager. With experience in corporate finance and commercial management, Chua is well placed to help the company continue its growth and expansion plans, according to Components Only. Chua believes his experience will prove[…]

Orway IQ has named former Sibanye-Stillwater employee Marnu Lombaard as its new Chief Executive Officer. Lombaard, who was named company chief with effect from May, takes over from Fred Kock who filled the role temporarily during the establishment phase of the business development, the company said. Kock remains a Director and Technical Consultant within the[…]

In a blog post this week, Tech Analyst Michele Nati from IOTA Foundation, which offers the first open-source distributed ledger that is being built to power the future of the Internet of Things in industry, says in the past couple of years, IOTA has started to proactively participate in collaborative research and development efforts that[…]

The National Mining Association (NMA), the MINExpo INTERNATIONAL® 2020 sponsor, announced today that it is postponing the event, the world’s largest mining-focussed equipment and technology convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada every four years, from the planned dates of September 28-30, 2020 until a to be announced new set of dates in September 2021. The[…]

With the price of platinum at around $31,000/kg and even rhodium at about $10 000/oz, there is a lot of pressure on production crews in underground PGM mines to minimise dilution & maximise ore production. A poor blast means a shallow advance, uneven faces, over- and underbreaks and even falling rock. All of which takes[…]

Citing a strong positioning with an uninterrupted presence for almost 30 years in Kazakhstan, Marseille-headquartered CIS Integrated Life Support Services has just won, as part of an international tender, a strategic contract with an unnamed major Russian player in the mining sector. The contract involves an underground gold mine in the northeast of the country.[…]

Injection Hoisting first came to the attention of the global mining audience after Cementation Canada, the technology developers, took the top prize along with KORE Geosystems at the DisruptMining event in 2017. Back then, the concept was viewed as a potential alternative to the labour- and cost-intensive process of shaft sinking. More than three years[…]

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, and Cobham SATCOM, have launched a comprehensive new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) push-to-talk (PTT) solution to connect remote workers using vehicles across the globe. The solution provides real-time data transfer and PTT communications to enable remote utilities, mining, aid and NGO, agricultural work and more,[…]

Engineering, design and advisory company Aurecon has appointed Autonomous Technology Director Graeme Mitchell to lead the acceleration of autonomous technology and help clients transition faster to what it calls ‘zero-entry mining’ operations. Today, the health and safety benefits of removing people from the mining operating environment and transitioning them to overseeing operations and undertaking more[…]

For those miners still operating in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, employee protection is now more important than ever, and this is where being able to accurately detect individuals suffering from elevated body temperatures is vital. Ionic Mechatronics, a company that develops and manufactures control systems, special purpose machines and complete automation systems for[…]