Technology

Real-time tracking of operating performance of fixed and mobile equipment at Totten will allow maintenance personnel to address issues before they result in a breakdown.

Over 250 delegates from five continents attended the Renewable Energy and Mining Summit in downtown Toronto September 25 and 26.

Markets include mining, oil and gas Jeff Fuller is one of those people who is never satisfied and always looking for ways to improve his company’s products. Even success doesn’t stop him from thinking there is a better way.

Newalta demonstrates centrifuge technology Alberta-based Newalta, a company specializing in recycling value from industrial waste, is proposing a new way to manage slimes in underground mines.

Surveyors are applauding Leica Geosystems’ recently launched Nova MS50 multi-station. “It’s a brand new surveying instrument that everybody’s calling a game changer,” claims Marty Warkentin, president of Northern Survey Supply.

Plant supplied 29 or 30 mines, cost almost nothing to operate and had no moving parts An ingenious but long-forgotten technology for producing compressed air in the Cobalt mining camp could play a role in reducing energy costs in the mining industry

Automated drumming system headed for Areva Resources operation in Saskatchewan Ionic Engineering, a Sudbury-based manufacturer of automated industrial equipment, held an open house earlier this summer to show off a uranium packaging system it designe

Maestro Mine Ventilation in 60 mines across North America An air quality monitoring and control solution developed by Sudbury-based Maestro Mine Ventilation is flying off the shelves.

Eight loaders and three haul trucks sold to Kirkland Lake Gold RDH Mining Equipment has unveiled what is likely the first battery-powered load-haul-dump (LHD) machine for the underground mining market.

Symboticware develops solution to discourage speeding It’s the worst-case scenario in the mining industry that Kirk Petroski and his company, Symboticware , are trying to avoid with the development of their newest product, Speed Guard.