Technology & digitalisation

Caterpillar Inc. has completed the in-house validation of Rajant BreadCrumbs® LX5 CA radios, which will enable field trials for hauling.

Marathon Gold has agreed to a contract with ABB to design and commission the process and power control system for its Valentine Gold Project in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Cummins has unveiled its brand-new European master rebuild centre for high horsepower engines in Krakow, Poland – the first of its kind in Europe.

GeoMoby is set to work alongside Cisco Systems on underground mining solutions that will extract telemetry to be visualised by GeoMoby.

Epiroc has signed an MOU with Newcrest to take a holistic approach towards the mining process, utilising automation, digitalisation, and electrification solutions.

Komatsu has announced it will offer Smart Construction’s 3D Machine Guidance Kit as a simple and flexible technological enhancement for a broad range of standard Komatsu machines.

Veracio has entered into a binding agreement to acquire pioneers in scanning and data innovators, Minalyze, for a total consideration equal to US$29.3 million.

Together with Luleå University of Technology, and the technology company Algoryx, Epiroc is initiating the ReNAM project to push the development of autonomous mining.

Gold Fields has begun using a comprehensive digital platform from ABB to coordinate production scheduling and execution across its Granny Smith Mine in Western Australia.

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Boliden have entered into a long-term collaboration to implement autonomous transport solutions at Boliden’s Garpenberg site in Sweden.

Rail-Veyor Technologies Global Inc. has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mining Plus, a mining technical consultancy.

With continued support from Minespider, Minsur, the world’s second largest tin producer, is striving towards mineral traceability across all its operations.

Orica has announced the commercial release of the world’s first lead-free non-electric detonator range, Exel Neo.

Getech has successfully assisted Nittesu Mining to identify favourable conditions for iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) minerals deposits in Peru.

TMC and Kongsberg Digital have announced the next phase of their agreement to bring AI and hybrid machine learning to future deep-sea nodule collection operations.