Fluke keeps railway safety on track with the ii900 Acoustic Imager, allowing maintenance technicians to detect the tiniest of leaks or cracks in a pneumatic brake system.

Industry must contain the impact of extraction related to CO2 emissions and maintain high safety standards while meeting ever-increasing demands for the minerals that underpin everyday life.

Getting the correct lip and G.E.T. on your wheel loader can mean a significant increase in overall productivity by eliminating maintenance hours spent repairing weld cracking on traditional systems. This whitepaper explores the considerable benefits to miners when they get their G.E.T. right, based on over five years of data and thousands of digging hours … Continue reading How to increase mine site productivity through Ground Engaging Tools →

Redrilling a slot can often be a difficult, costly and high risk component of mining a stope. There are now emerging technologies to reduce the time lost for preparing the new slot.

A South African mining company has leveraged AVEVA software to centralise operations, consolidate its value chain, and increase situational awareness among three individual mine shafts.

In 2019, in Western Australia alone, 2.4 million flights were booked for FIFO workers. For a long time, companies – especially in the mining sector – have been using spreadsheets to manage rosters, remote accommodation and flights for their employees. With the rise of software and cloud platforms, this administrative process can definitely be completed … Continue reading Remote workforce logistics and travel management →

Atlas Copco understands your need for power, but do your power needs ever change? Enter the QAC TwinPower.

This whitepaper discusses how mining companies can future-proof against the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and pre-existing market fluctuations.

Even in the most unpredictable markets, mining and metals companies can harness the power of AI to optimise asset performance and plan for the future. However, deploying a successful AI project requires a step-by-step approach. It starts with a single, solid data infrastructure. Operational data must first be captured from assets and then properly contextualised … Continue reading Mining and metals industries seek stable ground with AI →

How Emesent Hovermap technology is helping Glencore improve convergence and ground control monitoring at Kidd Operations.

This whitepaper discusses how mining companies can future-proof against the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and pre-existing market fluctuations.

Managing global procurement and supply risk and cost in the Resources Sector can be challenging. We live in uncertain times and international supply chains are shifting and stressed, while costs are rising. In this whitepaper, Axis Group Global Procurement and Supply share some insights and lessons learnt now that global developments have elevated procurement and … Continue reading Managing procurement risk and cost during times of uncertainty →

Mining and metals companies contend with an unpredictable market and volatile commodities pricing. In response, these companies must increase tonnage while reducing cost, and they are often pressed with making important decisions in uncertain circumstances. They seek out AI-driven technologies in pursuit of more stable results. But first, they must lay down the proper data … Continue reading Mining and metals industries seek stable ground with AI →

Dyno Nobel’s BlastWeb 4G electronic initiation system is an industry leading, centralised blasting system specifically developed for underground blasting.

This paper provides an insight into how customised carrier solutions from Combilift can address the pain points presented by oversized and heavy parts.

Advances in digital technology are set to transform safety in the mining industry and equip remote operating centres with better tools and leading-edge analytics to improve the safety of workers in high risk locations. 

Ora Banda Mining began the process of restarting operations at the Davyhurst gold mine in 2019. As part of the capital works programme they needed to re-establish a power station. They required power for their processing plant, administration complex, exploration and core processing facilities, main mine camp, underground mining offices, and primary communications facilities. Given … Continue reading Virtual gas power plant minimises emissions for miners →

M2P Engineering designed a modular inflatable orepass overhead protection system (OPS) that included various length modules of five metre, 10 metre and 20 metre cells. The system that can be utilised on varying length orepasses within the mine. Each cell can be individually deflated and removed from the rest of the system without compromising the … Continue reading Orepass overhead protection system →

This guide to digitalisation discusses how mining organisations can use the sector’s global head start as a springboard for optimisation and improvements.

Constantly seeking safer ways to work underground, Rio Tinto trialled the Hovermap mobile LIDAR scanner to map drive deformation at its Argyle Diamond Mine.