Archives: Mining software

Fleet Space’s mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, is taking another step on its mission to becoming an end-to-end multiphysics platform powered by space and artificial intelligence (AI) with the addition of gravity surveys to its existing offering. ExoSphere Gravity will now be available as an add-on to the real-time Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) surveys used by[…]

Cummins is globally known as a leader in mining engines used throughout the world on mining trucks and excavators, including all Komatsu mining machines. Its QSK50, QSK60 and QSK78 engines are renowned for their performance across all mining types and conditions, such as high altitude and temperature extremes. But of course Cummins, like its customers,[…]

With an investment of more than US$48 million, BHP has significantly modernised its operations centre in Santiago, originally inaugurated in 2018, it says putting the company at the forefront of integrated remote operations centres in the region. Today, the operations of BHP Copper Advanced Services (CAS) began, a new company whose integrated operations centre will[…]

Micromine says the unification of Çayeli Bakir’s mine control and fleet management processes, with the recent implementation of the Micromine Pitram fleet management system (FMS), has resulted in a significant productivity increase. Located on the Black Sea coast in Türkiye, Çayeli Bakir is a significant copper and zinc mine operated by First Quantum Minerals. Facing[…]

Duncan Bradford (pictured) says Saudi Arabia’s flagship digital gold mine won’t maintain its new title for long, with the early success of a technology blueprint and partnership at Mansourah Massarah creating a template for Ma’aden’s next major gold project in the Kingdom. An experienced Australian mining leader who has been executive vice president of Ma’aden’s[…]

Autonomy in mining fleets is not restricted to the large truck OEM-led systems from Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi and others. ASI Mining, recently fully acquired by Epiroc, has been on its own OEM-agnostic AHS journey at Roy Hill for some years now, while a raft of other technology providers have also been very active, including Pronto,[…]

Nokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, and Vale, the Brazil-based global mining company, have announced that they are signing a research agreement to implement a cognitive monitoring network service, enabling performance, reliability and safety enhancement of mining operations. The agreement builds on the already existing long-standing relationship at Vale’s autonomous iron-ore mine in Carajás, Brazil.[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing the Sandvik DD212i, its first intelligent i-series narrow vein drill and, it says, the industry’s most advanced underground drill of its type. The Sandvik DD212i is a compact single-boom jumbo with a new carrier and updated design, offering improved productivity, drilling accuracy, intelligence, versatility and easy integration into[…]

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the general availability of new Carbon Analysis capabilities in iTwin Experience to assess and reduce carbon impacts for more sustainable infrastructure – a development that could benefit mining companies. The new Carbon Analysis capabilities enable infrastructure engineers to simplify carbon reporting, easily visualise embodied carbon[…]

The integration of a digital backbone into the explosives, blasting and related processes will continue to result in miners accessing new deposits and potentially developing new mining methods, Orica’s Angus Melbourne and Rajkumar Mathiravedu told IM at last month’s MINExpo 2024 in Las Vegas. Reflecting on a digitalisation journey that started eight years ago, Melbourne[…]