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Drilling down

Donna Schmidt
At an optimized mine, drilling is no longer a stand-alone activity, it is a digitally connected production system. Flanders

NAM editor Donna Schmidt recently sat down with FLANDERS senior global product director Gerhard Labuschagne about some pressing issues for the future of drilling. Just what is an optimized mine from a driller’s perspective, and in the age of digitalization, what’s an engineer’s role? How are field relationships between operator and drilling partner key to each step of success along…

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Flanders, MES ink dual fuel collaboration

NAM Staff

With a mutual eye on decarbonization, Flanders and MES have signed a memorandum of understanding to team on deploying dual-fuel technology for mining trucks. The pair said earlier this month that the agreement will serve as a platform to advance aftermarket dual fuel technology consisting of natural gas and diesel for diesel engine haul trucks to reduce carbon emissions from…

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