IM INSIGHT SERIES

It has been some years since there has been any progress in upscaling large mining rope shovels, but this is now changing with the P&H 4800XPC machine from Komatsu, which has completed detailed design, with the first unit in manufacture, expected to start production digging in North America in late 2019. This is a major[…]

Tailings management has always been a challenge in mining in terms of first handling the volumes of material and secondly ensuring environmental safety. The technology exists in the form of thickened and paste tailings and associated equipment to make tailings management much safer and more efficient; and the industry is now finally taking steps to[…]