Maintenance: is there a secret to success? NAM wanted to know, and opened up the floor to three companies from the core sectors of surface mining infrastructure – trucks and conveyors – to try to get the answers. By Donna Schmidt It seems like the ever-elusive answer to a key question: how can surface mining be more efficient? There are…
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We live in a mining industry of ever deepening pits, rising waste-to-ore ratios, and increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. Although by no means suitable for every mine, in-pit crushing and conveying offers a solution to all of these issues and, where it makes sense, the economic and environmental benefits can be significant. By Jonathan Rowland…
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Komatsu Germany Mining division and Canadian-based SMS Equipment have revealed the latest development in Komatsu’s fleet of hydraulic mining excavators for surface mining: the PC9000. The OEM confirmed that the new model will be the largest in Komatsu’s hydraulic mining excavator portfolio. It is optimized to suit Komatsu’s 830E through 980E mining truck sizes, improving cycle times and lowering the…
Read MoreControl Concepts has released the AirSweep MAX, a globally patented pneumatic flow aid system that eliminates bridging, ratholing and build-up in bulk material handling equipment. The AirSweep MAX (short for Material Activation Xcellence) improves on the performance of its predecessor AirSweep. Laboratory tests proved that AirSweep MAX delivers 52% more output pressure and 31% more air output than the original…
Read MoreMinnesota-based weight and measure supplier Intercomp has unveiled its LTR788 Dual Platform Scale, an NTEP-certified unit for commercial vehicle weight enforcement. The new release was created for direct measurement of individual tire loading in a dual-tire configuration. While tire failures within dual-tire setups have historically occurred more frequently on inner tires than outer tires, individual tires in a dual-wheel configuration…
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Donaldson Company has introduced the Donaldson Dalamatic G2 Smart Collector, which it said is a next-generation baghouse collector engineered to handle challenging dusts. Engineered to work with materials that create sticky or agglomerative dust, the evolutionary Dalamatic G2 dust collector includes patented Dura-Life bag filters. The envelope shape allows for greater bag movement to dislodge challenging dust cakes and helps…
Read MoreMiner B2Gold has confirmed that, due to a slight delay in its schedule, first gold from its Goose open-pit and underground complex in Canada, will not be seen until the second quarter of next year. Goose, located in the Back River Gold District in the northern Nunavut Territory, was originally expected to come online in the first quarter of 2025.…
Read MoreCanadian miner McEwen Mining has entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger to acquire all outstanding shares of Nevada-based Timberline Resources that it doesn’t already own. McEwen Mining currently owns 6.25 million Timberline shares, or around 3.3% of the company, along with 6.25 million warrants. Excluding McEwen’s existing ownership, the miner expects to issue approximately 1.84 million shares…
Read MoreIPS, which specializes in the servicing, engineering and remanufacturing of electrical, mechanical, and power management assets, has agreed to acquire assets of ABB’s Industrial Services business. The business includes a U.S. and Canadian service shop network with locations in Tucson, Ariz.; Evansville, Ind.; Charlotte, N.C.; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and Burlington, Ontario, Canada, employing 114 talented employees. The transaction is expected…
Read MoreAlabama-based shotcrete, gunite and concrete pump maker Blastcrete Equipment has created a distribution and service partnership with Italian concrete equipment manufacturer Mecbo Srl, creating Mecbo America. Mecbo America, a division of Blastcrete, will provide customers in North, Central and South America access to its products, enhance the Blastcrete offering with new models designed around Mecbo pump technology and ensure a…
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