Technology

Stanley Appleton Manufacturing has introduced a roll over protection structure (ROPS) that affixes to the cab of a pickup truck.

Dust is a serious health and safety concern for mining companies. Strategies to manage the hazard have primarily centered on using water to capture and suppress the tiny airborne particles.

A new smartphone app designed to guide tourists, visitors and residents to sites of interest in the Sudbury area is proving just as popular with armchair tourists around the world.

A new and improved air quality monitoring system developed by startup Maestro Ventilation in Sudbury is already in 40 mines around the world after being on the market for just one year.

The relative fortunes of the papermaking and mining industries in Northern Ontario were evident in North Bay last year as underground utility vehicle manufacturer Miller Technology moved into a 43,000-square foot building vacated by paper industry su

The Symbot is a ruggedized, cube-shaped industrial computer that bolts onto an LHD or utility vehicle, but Symboticware president Kirk Petroski reaches for his smartphone to explain the role it plays in underground mining.

Simsmart Technologies Inc. president Michel Massé couldn’t have asked for a better testimonial on the company’s first venture into the mining industry.

The Vale fleet of Kiruna haul trucks at Coleman Mine in Sudbury is transitioning to an AC electric system.

Editor’s note: The following is an edited version of a speech by Alex Henderson, general manager, mines and mill technology, North Atlantic Region, Vale, on the funding of a Rail-veyor deployment at the company’s Copper Cliff 114 Orebody Demonstratio

The successful deployment of a ventilation-on-demand system at Vale’s Coleman Mine in Sudbury is generating energy savings of up to 40 per cent and turning heads in the mining industry.