At last year’s US Africa leaders summit in Washington the US signed an historic memorandum of understanding with Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to develop an electric vehicle battery supply chain. At the summit, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema also announced that Kobold metals, an exploration firm backed by billionaires BillContinue Reading
Move will bolster the company’s offerings and support for customers in underground hard rock and industrial minerals Komatsu today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire GHH Group GmbH (GHH), a manufacturer of underground mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering equipment headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Founded inContinue Reading
TOMRA Mining will showcase its sensor-based ore sorting solutions on Booth M30-7 at the Mining Indaba 2023 exhibition, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-9 February. Of particular interest will be its latest innovation in diamond recovery, the COM XRT 300 /FR sorter, a unique new-generationContinue Reading
WearCheck customers can rest assured that the latest round of loadshedding woes plaguing South Africa will not have a detrimental effect on the processing of samples, as every one of the company’s major laboratories has a powerful back-up generator. Managing director of WearCheck, Neil Robinson, outlines the company’s power plans,Continue Reading
Focusing on the ways Africa can optimise the opportunity to increase the supply of green metals for global energy demands while creating meaningful value for communities will be the emphasis of Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 which takes place at the CTICC, Cape Town, 6 – 9 February 2023.Continue Reading
LKAB is further increasing its safety capabilities by implementing several solutions from the Mobilaris Mining Intelligence platform at its Kiruna mine in northern Sweden, Epiroc says. The platform, now 100% incorporated into Epiroc following the consolidation of its ownership in Mobilaris MCE AB in 2021, allows all employees to receive alarmContinue Reading
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has launched a highly-automated, compact, twin-boom drill for underground development and small-scale tunneling. The Sandvik DD322i is described as “a versatile drill that can be utilised in mining or tunnelling applications, and provides a high level of performance, accuracy and reliability.” The Sandvik DD322i hasContinue Reading
IDS GeoRadar, part of Hexagon, has announced it is extending the IQMaps software application to a wider range of ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems. IQMaps is IDS GeoRadar’s post-processing software application for advanced GPR data analysis, enabling fast interfacing between the user and GPR data, it says. IQMaps is nowContinue Reading
Carl Hamm Pipes Pumps Solutions specialize in Turn-key Abstraction of water, whether it is a Virgen mine planning strategy or a flooded or closed mine we can offer Trunkey solutions. Chris Munnick, CEO of Carl Hamm PPS South Africa, is going the extra mile in looking for cost effective solutionsContinue Reading
Mining and tunnelling equipment manufacturer GHH has unveiled a new load haul dumper (LHD): The LF-10 NEO is a powerful and compact 10 ton loader, an all-around improved version of the LF-10, a well-established product in it’s class. The LF-10 NEO is the latest in a line of new GHHContinue Reading
