Technology & digitalisation

Baraja has announced its first volume commercial deal for long-range LiDAR with Hitachi Construction Machinery.

ABB is working with Boliden and Epiroc, in order to develop and demonstrate an electric trolley truck system on a test track at Boliden’s Kristineberg mine in northern Sweden.

Rayven has launched I4 Mining: a new suite of digital mining solutions designed to accelerate the sector’s transition to a profitable zero-harm, zero-carbon, zero-waste future.

Clariant has opened the Competence Center for Tailings Treatment, a new technical facility exclusively dedicated to developing solutions for tailings management.

ABB will provide six electrical rooms plus an integrated digital system solution distributed control system to Gold Fields’ Salares Norte mining project in a remote region of northern Chile.

Enter Engineering and thyssenkrupp AG have announced the signing of an Agreement of Intent.

Nokia and AngloGold Ashanti Colombia, in collaboration with Epiroc, Sandvik, Tigo and OSC Top solutions, have conducted the first underground 5G mining trial in Jerico, Colombia.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated has announced that its Seequent business unit has acquired Canadian software company Minalytix.

New Inmarsat research reveals rapid increase in levels of Industrial IoT maturity in 2021, with mining businesses accelerating IoT adoption in response to COVID-19.

Underground operations worldwide are increasingly digitalising their operations for various benefits, and so is Vedanta Zinc International's Black Mountain Mining Ltd underground operations, Swartberg.

Liebherr Mining and ABB have announced their collaboration to explore the development of state-of-the-art technology and equipment for the overall electrification of mine sites.

Rolls-Royce and Flanders Electric plan to develop hybrid retrofit solution for mining trucks.

Rio Tinto and Caterpillar have signed an MoU for the development of zero-emissions autonomous haul trucks to be used at one of Rio Tinto’s Western Australian mining operations.

Hexagon has signed an agreement with Volvo Construction Equipment to provide autonomous safety systems for the mining industry.

Weir Minerals and Andritz have signed an agreement at MINExpo 2021 expanding their shared commitment to supply equipment for processing tailings in the mining industry.