Archives: Mining software

MineWare CEO and founder, Andrew Jessett (pictured), has stepped down from his role at the company to pursue new opportunities, the independent monitoring systems company says. Jessett founded MineWare in 2005, after independently creating and commercialising Pegasys, an advanced dragline monitor system. “I’m immensely proud of everything the MineWare team has achieved over the past[…]

The past week has seen the news filled with updates from major miners on shutdowns, slowdowns and lockdowns of major mining sites due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 worldwide. The list of affected operations is now a long one, affecting all major commodities, from Cerro Verde to Ambatovy and from San Cristobal to Voisey’s[…]

Mining technology services company, Windfall Geotek, says it has launched a new drone-based solution for artificial intelligence (AI) driven digital exploration in mining. A services company using AI with a portfolio of gold, copper and zinc properties in Quebec, Canada, Windfall Geotek has been using AI and advanced knowledge-extraction techniques since 2005 in the mining[…]

Two of the leading players in monitoring technology, Worldsensing and IDS GeoRadar, a Hexagon company, have cooperated to launch what they say is the most comprehensive mine safety monitoring system to date. The integrated system will be the first in the world to offer surface, sub-surface and geospatial monitoring in a single package, greatly simplifying[…]

Mincor says it plans to incorporate some of the most modern mining technology to enhance safety, boost operational efficiency and reduce costs at its integrated nickel re-start project in the Kambalda District of Western Australia. Having released the definitive feasibility study on the project, the company is now awaiting a positive final investment decision from[…]

Austin Engineering’s David Pichanick thinks miners need to keep payload matching front and centre of their minds when looking to add to, refresh or replace their truck and shovel haulage fleet. Why payload matching and what’s involved in matching an excavator to a truck? According to Pichanick, Global Manager Market Development & Innovation at Brisbane-based[…]

Mining software leader MICROMINE has reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by offering the mining community free access during April to its general mining package, Micromine 2020. The exploration and mining solution has proven valuable for mining projects for more than three decades, with the latest version, Micromine 2020, including a new stope optimisation tool among[…]

Cisco says it has helped Sandvik and Boliden deliver a safe, autonomous and efficient operation at the miner’s Garpenberg underground mine in northern Sweden. The IoT solutions provider has installed a low latency IoT network with Cisco industrial switches and access points in the mine, which is more than 1 km underground, to facilitate this[…]

Sandvik says it has released a new solution that will allow automated underground trucks to continue seamlessly through ramp portals to the surface to complete the dumping cycle. Having offered a sneak peek of this product at the Digitalization in Mining event in Brisbane, Australia, in December, the company has now gone public with the[…]

Having made a name for itself in Australia and elsewhere, RCT’s ControlMaster™ automation and control solution is revolutionising mining operations throughout North America, the company says. ControlMaster is a technologically-agnostic solution with a history of managing heavy mobile mining plant on active mine sites throughout the USA, Canada and many other mines across the globe.[…]