Archives: Mining safety

Arianne Phosphate, a development-stage phosphate mining company, advancing the Lac à Paul project in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, has announce significant advancements in the design of its future tailings facility. Arianne partnered with the Quebec Center of Geomatics (CGQ), to advance research and development on a new method for the design and future monitoring of the[…]

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has announced updates to its guidance on responsible tailings management that, the association says, aligns its policies with the ‘Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management’ published last year. The Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) standard, first developed by MAC in 2004, is a globally recognised sustainability program that supports mining[…]

Normet says it has delivered another large fleet of underground utility equipment, in this case concrete sprayers and mixers, to Codelco’s Chuquicamata Underground copper mining project in Chile from its in country factory in Santiago, which is one of its main production sites globally outside of the home factory in Iisalmi, Finland and the Kingnor[…]

As the resources sector is adopting innovation, in particular digital technologies, at an increasingly rapid rate, mining companies should consider the cyber-security risks inherent with leveraging this innovation, according to mining technology company IMDEX. Paul House, CEO for IMDEX, says the take-up of new technologies is happening on a scale that has not been seen[…]

From the top of the Titanium Tower, in the financial centre of Santiago, professionals from Anglo American mining company are now operating and monitoring in real time the Los Bronces copper mine and plant which are 56 km away at over 3,500 m altitude. They do so from the first Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC)[…]

Russia’s telecomms major MegaFon is to launch a private LTE wireless network at the huge in-development Udokan copper mine in the Trans-Baikal region, operated by Udokan Copper LLC. The network will allow the miner to provide employees with stable communications, automate complex processes and improve security. The corporate private LTE network in the 1,800 MHz[…]

Russian telecoms major MTS recently deployed a pilot underground LTE network to support mining operations for Russia’s Uralkali, one of the world’s largest producers of potash. MTS stated: “This major milestone is yet another step forward in MTS’s solid track record of deploying advanced B2B solutions together with many of Russia’s leading companies. Looking ahead[…]

Two new Major Drilling EF-75 drills have arrived and are now turning at Hecla Mining’s San Sebastian mine in Durango, Mexico, the drilling services company says. The drills arrived in March and are part of Major Drilling’s fleet improvements, adding innovative rod handling capability to the project, it said. “We are thankful that we are[…]

A long-time partner of NORCAT, HARD-LINE says it is evolving its remote-control systems in a new space at NORCAT’s surface facility at the former Fecunis mine site in Onaping, Ontario. HARD-LINE, a global technology company specialising in remote and tele-remote-control solutions, uses drift space at NORCAT’s underground site. Inside HARD-LINE’s new office is a TeleOp[…]

Hammer Kazakhstan, part of Russian group Hammer Rus and partner 5DT recently successfully launched their second simulator at the training centre of the Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) in Rudny, Kazakhstan which serves the Sokolov-Sarybai Mining Production Association (SSGPO) JSC mines, SSGPO being the largest iron ore enterprise in Kazakhstan’s mining industry with over 100 truck[…]