In January, SK Godelius opened an office in northern Ontario within the Norcat Underground Centre in Sudbury. The company specializes in developing innovative forms of remote interaction for machines, vehicles, robots, and processes of the mining industry. The Norcat centre…
BHP’s Olympic Dam mine was an early adopter of Emesent’s Hovermap mobile LiDAR (light detection and ranging) system. First deployed in February 2019, Hovermap has become a ubiquitous tool that’s integral to the mine’s underground operational workflows. Geotechnical, engineering, geology…
ABB announced that it was awarded the first contract in China for its ABB Ability Asset Vista Condition Monitoring. The company has installed the software to streamline maintenance, minimize costs and optimize capacity at the Shanyang coal mine in Heyang…
Fatigue Science, a global leader in providing human fatigue and performance predictive analytics and fatigue management information systems, has launched Fatigue Intervention Tracking as part of its Readifatigue management platform. Targeted at industrial shift supervisors and those managing crews in…
Martin Engineering, a global innovator in conveyor belt cleaning technology, has introduced an autonomous tensioning system that continuously monitors and delivers proper cleaner tension. By utilizing Martin Engineering’s intuitive new smart technology platform to maintain proper blade-to-belt pressure, the N2…
SMT Scharf Canada, a subsidiary of the SMT Scharf Group, has entered an exclusive distribution partnership with Parts Service Supply in Mexico. The Scharf Group views the mining industry in Mexico as an excellent fit for the group’s rubber-tired product…
For decades, Knelson gravity concentrators have been the gold standard for recovery of gold and precious metals. FLSmidth’s latest innovation in semi-continuous gravity separation is the new Knelson GX concentrating cone, which delivers a key breakthrough in performance that increases…
Water management is a key factor in determining mine profitability, and it is something many mine owners struggle to control. Poorly designed process water management systems negatively impact production, and shutdowns can cost millions of dollars. While the costs of…
Last week, the Redpath Group reached a major milestone, as the company completed an 875-metre-long by 6.3-metre-diameter raise at the privately held Niobec mine in Quebec. The raise is the largest by volume ever completed in the Americas and in…
Metso Outotec has launched a versatile Linear Metallurgical Sampler (LMS), that allows the measuring of material balances as well as reporting to investors and other stakeholders in compliance with AMIRA P754 and other sampling standards. The solution enables integration with…
RPMGlobal has been working with miners worldwide to bridge the gap between operational planning and customer demand, and has taken this to a new level in the latest upgrade to its advanced mine scheduling software — XECUTE. XECUTE is RPMGlobal’s…
Tomra Sorting Mining has developed a new diamond microsite that offers access to comprehensive technical information and allows diamond producers to understand the possibilities offered by Tomra’s recovery solutions and how they would add value. “We want to allow our…