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Enhanced training through advanced simulation pays off

Canadian mining giant Teck Coal has more than 3000 employees, 400 mine haul trucks, shovels, drills and other surface mining machines; all of which are focussed on its 620 million tonnes of reserves at six metallurgical coal mines in...

Drill saves miners power and water

Drilling and mining go hand-in-hand because almost every aspect of extracting minerals involves penetrating the surface of the earth and its underlying bedrock.

Safety in the deep

Atlas Copco's new Roofex Rx20 rock bolt is what the company hopes will soon become an industry standard in rock reinforcement thanks to its design capabilities to handle a sliding load up to 20 tonnes and an energy absorption of…

Innovative metal detector

Eriez announces the availability of its Metalarm MA3600 metal detector designed using pulse induction technology that offers balanced coil detection sensitivity and performance; resulting in a high specification metal detector ideally suited...

Jaw crusher

Telsmith introduces its H3244 Hydra-Jaw, a jaw crusher engineered with an 813 mm gape and a 1118 mm width designed to accept larger feed in hard rock quarry, and sand and gravel applications. It can also be mounted on portable…

Autonomous machine system

Caterpillar and its WesTrac dealer have just announced an agreement with Fortescue Metals Group of Perth, Australia, to implement an autonomous mining solution for its 793F haul trucks at the Solomon iron ore mine. At full operational capacity,...

High-security dispensing machine

Nexiant's Smart Inventory Management Solutions system is an automated dispensing unit with a capacity of up to 560 items. The device is designed with carousels that can store up to 56 items with 14 different bin sizes.Modular configuration...

Remote satellite phone

Inmarsat's IsatPhone Pro phone is a device designed to work in just about any condition; in rain storms, dust storms, searing heat to sub-zero cold, tropical humidity or freezing fog. The phone almost eliminates the worries about batteries when...

Revolutionary gear drive

Rexnord announces that its Falk V-Class line of gear drives are designed for durability and reliability and feature a heavy-duty, horizontally split housing design that incorporates advanced gearing, optimized through the latest materials and...

Bearing seals

Garlock's shaft grounding bearing isolator is a new seal designed to protect bearings from electrical damage as well as from lubricant loss and contamination. The seals combine a non-sparking bronze labyrinth seal and the shaft grounding ring...

Live-floor aggregate trailer

Titan Trailers' "Walking Floor" aggregate trailer features a narrower body with lower side rails which, along with its aluminum construction, helps reduce the unit's weight while at the same time allows for an increased payload of 2,000 lbs....

Tank wraps protect against freezing

Powerblanket announces the availability of a variety of tank wraps designed to heat and maintain the temperature in large holding tanks. The wraps create a barrier of insulated warmth to keep fluids from freezing and viscous materials flowing....