Technology & digitalisation

Epiroc has won a large order for mining equipment, including battery-electric vehicles and automation solutions, from Boliden for use at three of its underground mines in Sweden.

With global demand rising for critical raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite, many companies are seeking closer control over opaque supply chains and to boost recycling efforts to secure supplies and deliver on sustainability goals.

Komatsu’s partnership with Toyota is reflective of the company’s interoperability strategy for its customers’ large mining fleets.

Komatsu and Toyota have announced the launch of a joint project to develop an autonomous light vehicle that will run on Komatsu’s Autonomous Haulage System.

Heidi Schmidt, Opticom, USA, delves into how automation, in particular video monitoring, is meeting mining challenges.

The solutions' categories span the resource value chain and include: orebody intelligence, blast design and execution, and mine simulation and optimisation.

Focus FS saves valuable time with life-saving decisions by providing the end-user with readily available incident data in one central location.

Will Owen, Global Mining Review, UK, reviews how the implementation of ICT technologies through digital transformation is helping mining companies tackle challenges and unlock benefits and social value with more intelligent operations.

The company has successfully produced lithium carbonate from naturally occurring geothermal brines: a major step forward in the UK’s ambitions to produce a domestic supply of lithium.

First Mode and ABB have signed an order for 80 BORDLINE® ESS lithium-ion battery systems to power diesel-free mining haul trucks.

Ahmed Rezk, GEOVIA, Dassault Systèmes, South Africa, discusses the most common blast firing sequences and the expected movement of each one.

TOMRA Mining has published a new eBook which highlights how mining operations can benefit from data-driven quality control.

The solution enables users to simultaneously design, populate, manage, and effectively share block models while centrally managing the massive amount of sample points, variables, and outputs associated with orebody data.

Cummins Inc. has showcased its new fuel-agnostic 15 l engine platform with hydrogen, natural gas and advanced diesel engines, offering low-to-zero carbon fuel capability.

TOMRA Mining has launched a new ejection module for its COM Tertiary XRT sorter, specifically developed for sorting small particle sizes.