Technology

Lab-scale custom crushing and blending has never been so efficient as it is now with Sudbury-based Xstrata Process Support’s (XPS) first-of-a-kind custom crushing and blending plant (CBP).

The most powerful raisedrill in the world, the Redpath Group’s Redbore 100, is scheduled to begin drilling two ventilation raises at Vale Inco’s Copper Cliff South Mine in January.

A more environmentally friendly way to extract metal from sulphide-based and iron-containing ores and mineral concentrates is receiving more recognition in the mining industry.

BacTech Mining Corporation , a Toronto-based company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Gold Bullion Development Corp.

Atlas Copco’s cutting-edge automation technology is gaining traction in the mining industry. Introduced in 1998, the company’s Rig Control System (RCS) was slow to gain acceptance.

Careful attention to detail and scheduling was the mandate the J.S. Redpath Group followed during its four-and-a-half year expansion of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLAB). Located 6,800-feet underground at Vale Inco Ltd.

HLS Hard-Line Solutions Inc., a Sudbury-based supplier of radio remote control and communication systems, will be introducing a new underground loader/excavator at MINExpo 2008 in Las Vegas, September 22 to 24.

MacLean Engineering and Marketing has introduced a new underground scissor lift truck featuring a remote drive system and a deck with side and forward shift capabilities.

Electrons racing around a synchrotron, or particle accelerator, at close to the speed of light on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan are helping Vale Inco identify the forms, or species, of nickel in soil and filter particulate samples.

An automated wire rope inspection system developed as a result of an R&D project by the Sudbury-based Deep Mining Research Consortium and AMIRA has successfully replaced the decades-old practice of daily, manual hoist rope inspections at Xstrata