Category: Operating Strategies

By Andrew Attrill Maintenance shutdowns, in many respects, prove the rigor of a business’ management systems. While offline maintenance activities are generally planned, scheduled and executed as per business-as-usual...

Moving pumpable but difficult-to-handle, semiliquid materials such as paste, slurry and sludge can be an expensive, troublesome job — particularly when using equipment that’s not designed for reliability and flexibility. Here...

When it comes to heavy mining equipment, around-the-clock mission-critical operation and harsh conditions will inevitably cause damage and considerable wear to some common components. Some of these components pose particular...

Repairing and refurbishing large, high-value or hard-to-replace components is a key concern for the mining industry. According to a leading wear-protection service and technology company, localizing the application of engineered...

Bechtel has opened the Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center in Santiago, Chile, to lead the development of new technologies that boost productivity, promote environmental sustainability and improve worker safety for the...

Australia-based guidance automation specialist RCT recently announced that underground mining equipment supplier Getman Corp. selected RCT to provide a mobile, teleremote control solution for a Getman A64HD water cannon ordered...

Komatsu America Corp. announced that its FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) has qualified to operate on private Long-term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband technology. This, according to the company, is the mining...

Seequent and IMDEX have formed an ongoing partnership to deliver a real-time 3D visualization solution for mining and exploration that the two companies claim dramatically improves the speed and accuracy of decision-making for...

Digital twins are among the newest members of mining’s extended family, part of an industry-wide adoption process aimed at maximizing the value of its big-data collection efforts and improving the performance of physical assets....

Minnovare, a Perth, Australia-based drilling technology company, recently released a white paper in cooperation with Evolution Mining detailing a comparative study undertaken at Evolution’s Cracow gold mine in which stopes...

When red-lined maintenance-cost items start jumping out with alarming regularity from gray columns of spreadsheet and budget report figures, most maintenance managers look for ways to regain control. Two recent data-analysis...

Cranes and other types of lifting gear are essential for constructing and maintaining mining facilities and equipment, and it’s almost impossible to visit a mine without seeing at least one at work, whether it’s on a service...