Mining Is A Traditionally Hardware-Focused Business. To Achieve The Next Level Of Productivity And Sustainability, However, Data Will Be The Key Asset For Change. By Jonathan Rowland
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Day: April 29, 2021
CEO Q&A: Almonty Industries’ Lewis Black
North American Mining Discusses The Future Of Mining, The Outlook For Tungsten And More With Almonty’s Lewis Black. Is U.S. Growth Part Of The Company’s Future? By J. Weiss
Read MoreSandvik Debuts Top Hammer XL Drilling System
At a special virtual product launch event, Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions introduced the Top Hammer XL, its latest innovation in surface top hammer drilling.
Read MoreWVU Researchers Get Funding for Longwall Sensor Work
Engineers from West Virginia University (WVU) received backing to develop an improved methane monitoring network for greater longwall safety. Derek Johnson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Statler College, who is steering the work, said a refined network of sensors could enable proactive responses to rising gas levels, versus current practices of a single shearer-mounted methane sensor…
Read MoreTeck’s Elkview Expansion Commissioned
Canadian coal operator Teck Resources said it started the commissioning process for the saturated rock fill (SRF) facility expansion at its Elkview met coal complex.
Read MoreAmerican Resources Constructing REE plant
American Resources confirmed its plans to build a 2-kilowatt mobile electrolytic cell rare earth (REE) processing plant. It did not release the location where will the plant will be hosted, but the coal miner said the plant is part of its overall mission to bring its REE process chain technology program to a commercial scale. Project managers were, at press…
Read MoreContura Divests Cumberland Mine
Contura Energy closed its transaction with Iron Senergy Holding, the new owner of its former asset the Cumberland underground coal mine in Greene County, Pa. The sale was first confirmed on Nov. 12, 2020, and was initially expected to close by the end of the year.
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Galileo Is Now Visionary Gold – Canadian-based Galileo Exploration has changed its name to Visionary Gold. It did not readily specify the impetus for the change. The company also announced the appointment of Darren Lindsay as an addition to its board of directors. Lindsay was “…instrumental in helping Galileo to secure its newly acquired interests in the Wolf Gold Project…
Read MoreMSHA Announces Fatality
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that on March 12, a miner at Dredge Chesterfield in St Louis County, Mo., was fatally injured while attempting to insert a steel pin into a spud beam.
Read MoreFlexco Makes Executive Changes
Conveyor system producer Flexco and its CEO Richard White announced changes to its executive line-up, beginning with Thomas Wujek, its former executive vice president and chief operating officer, who was promoted to president and COO.
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