Special reports

Solaris Resources discusses the latest trends in copper pricing, specifically how the price of copper has bounced off recent lows as miners cut production forecasts.

Electrifying a mine, like mining itself, is a process. Mining operators should seriously consider partnering with OEMs and system integrators to accelerate this process. Such a partnership applies to new vehicles and retrofit projects, like replacing a diesel engine with an electric powertrain.

Leaders from the resources sector are aiming to address the chronic and systemic skills shortage facing the industry at November’s IMARC.

Boris Ivanov, Founder, Emiral Resources, discusses how mining companies have a responsibility to steer artisanal mining towards safer processes, with a focus on artisanal mining in Africa.

Electra Mining Africa, Southern Africa’s biggest mining, electrical, automation, manufacturing, power and transport trade exhibition, will be taking place from 5 – 9 September.

Mining and resource leaders will gather to explore the challenges and opportunities ahead at IMARC this year, 2 – 4 November.

Read this article to hear why Vermeer Specialty Excavation recommends continuous surface mining as a way to make mines safer, more sustainable, and better neighbours to nearby communities.

Jacky Burke and Fran Lake, SRK Consulting, discuss the four steps that can be used to overcome the challenge of how to practically integrate social impacts with the systems that manage tailings.

Tom Azzopardi, New Pacific Metals Corp., outlines how the company could be on the brink of a transformative discovery, as it explores an historic mining site high in the Andes Mountains.

Professor Jon Crowcroft, iKVA, considers how the mining industry’s adoption of new software promises to deliver significant benefits for every stage of its process.

Operators are increasingly looking to restart past producing mines with new technologies, improved ESG strategies, and better capital to take advantage of commodity price increases.

The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, seeks suitably qualified local and international investors with pre-requisite experience, technological expertise, and financial capacity, through a transparent and competitive bidding process, to carry-out bitumen development to a meaningful extraction-level under a public-private partnership arrangement.

Alexander Hill, Chief Global Strategist and Co-Founder, Senseye, outlines how automation and digital transformation at scale can help drive more efficient and sustainable operations.

ABB has strengthened its global reputation as the only supplier of complete hoist systems that can provide both mechanical and electrical components with the launch of ABB Ability NGX Hoist Control.

Read this article to find out how Vermeer Specialty Excavation has been using both continuous surface mining and drill and blast methods together on the same mining site.