Archives: Mining techniques

At the recent Bank of America 2023 Smart Mine 4.0 conference, Donovan Waller, Anglo American Group Head of Technology Development gave an in-depth review of ongoing projects under its FutureSmart Mining™ banner, which broadly refers to its innovation-led approach to sustainable mining. He covered mainly six interesting areas – its African renewable energy ecosystem; the nuGen™ Zero[…]

Having completed a proof of concept of its entire surgical mining technologies portfolio in 2021, Novamera has furthered its credentials in the narrow-vein mining space by proving out its proprietary guidance tool in the same setting and testing out the ability to transport the concept to an underground mining environment. Novamera’s proprietary hardware and software[…]

Edzcom, a Cellnex affiliate company, and Callio Pyhäjärvi say they have joined hands “to boost the automation and digitalisation of the entire mining industry in Finland and internationally” through a state-of-the-art 5G Private Wireless Network. Pyhäjärvi Callio’s project, known as ‘FutureMINE– the future digital test mine project’ is located in Pyhäsalmi, which is one of the[…]

IM sat down with MMD at The Electric Mine 2023 for an exclusive update on its Fully Mobile Surge Loader or FMSL – its innovative in-pit solution that acts as a mobile storage bunker between the shovel and a continuous flow of trucks. It has been proven capable of an average fill rate of less[…]

In its just published operational decarbonisation investor briefing, the world’s leading mining company BHP outlined some of its plans and strategies to meet its decarbonisation targets – the most immediate of which is reducing operational emissions by at least 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels followed by net zero by 2050. Dr Graham Winkelman, Head of[…]

Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President Marna Cloete recently announced that an agreement has been reached to replace the outstanding convertible loan balance owed to Ivanhoe Mines by High Power Exploration (HPX) into an equity investment in I-Pulse Inc (I-Pulse), HPX’s parent company. Founded by Robert Friedland and Laurent Frescaline in 2005, I-Pulse[…]

Anglo American and Jiangxi Copper Company, one of China’s largest copper producers, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to provide greater assurance on the way copper is mined, processed, and brought to market. The agreement was signed during a visit to Jiangxi Copper’s headquarters in Nanchang, China, and is part of Anglo[…]

During the Epiroc World Expo 2023, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore had the chance to sit down in person with President and CEO Helena Hedblom to talk through strengths and challenges as the industry begins arguably its most significant transition to date You talk a lot to your major customers about their roadmaps – with[…]

On June 6, Xuzhou-headquartered Chinese mining and construction equipment major XCMG held a special event celebrating its largest open-pit mining equipment that it refers to as its ‘three arrows’ – and displayed its new XES35 35 m3 electric rope shovel that only recently came off the production line. It joins its other largest class machines[…]

Two of the largest mining companies in the world, Codelco and BHP, are to collaborate with the objective of exchanging information in areas of mutual interest, such as the electrification of mining activities, the supply of desalinated water, stability and monitoring of tailings deposits, and the development of technologies for the decarbonisation of processes, among[…]