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The labour shortage wreaking havoc across North America has hit the drilling industry as hard as any. One recent advance that promotes workplace safety also helps solve the workplace shortage. It’s called RodBot™ and in most situations it reduces the number of people needed on a drill rig down to a single operator. MEDATech’s Borterra[…]

Lives could soon be at stake if the mining industry doesn’t make cyber security a business priority and safeguard against increasingly sophisticated attacks, according to experts in the field. With the sector’s growing reliance on technology across the entire value chain, cyber security is a key issue that will be discussed at the International Mining[…]

Close monitoring is the basis for keeping vibrating screens productive and achieving the lowest cost of ownership, according to Kenny Mayhew-Ridgers, Chief Operating Officer of South Africa-based vibrating screen specialist Kwatani. Moving from paper systems to digital solutions is a vital step towards this goal, he added. “Where machine data recording – combined with periodic[…]

Back in 2018, Scania announced that it had begun testing of a new generation autonomous transport system at Rio Tinto’s Dampier Salt operations in Western Australia. Rio Tinto has since revealed that this project has now moved additionally to the Channar iron ore mine in the Pilbara where work continues.   To get more insight[…]

Chevron Lubricants has introduced its Delo TorqForce Syn FD-1 high performance, fully synthetic lubricant designed for use in final drives and axles of large mining haul trucks and other support equipment. Delo TorqForce Syn FD-1 was designed to increase performance over conventional SAE 60 TO-4 and FD-1 products and formulated to deliver maximum system protection.[…]

KSB says it has completed its multiphase, $44 million expansion at its Grovetown, Georgia, facility, with the expanded base now serving as the headquarters of GIW® Slurry Pumps. In 2020, the KSB Group launched KSB Mining, a new market-driven organisation providing its leading expertise on centrifugal pumps — in slurry and non-slurry applications — to[…]

Sudbury’s renowned Cambrian College is to establish a “Battery Electric Vehicle Lab” after being named a recipient of federal government funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) initiative. Cambrian’s BEV lab is one of 150 projects across Canada to receive funding, with the C$45 million ($35 million) in funding dished out to 43 institutions.[…]

There is no doubt that the all-electric mining truck using onboard energy storage with charging from an offboard trolley line is a principal solution for zero-emissions that a lot of the industry is looking at. IM Editorial Director, Paul Moore had the chance at MINExpo 2021 recently to meet with Daniel Robertson (right in picture),[…]

BELAZ recently reached a major milestone when its 500th 90 t 7558 mining dump truck was assembled. Mining dump trucks of this particular series made history as the world’s first dump trucks with a payload capacity of 90 t equipped with an electromechanical AC transmission. Today, the BELAZ-7558 series dump trucks is represented by 10[…]

For more than 125 years, Switzerland’s jura cement, a subsidiary of CRH PLC, has served as a manufacturer and supplier of building materials. However, mounting community pressure regarding dust emissions, vibration and noise are threatening the company’s future at its largest quarry operations. To address these concerns, jura cement is implementing new precision surface mining[…]