Category: Mining technology

Metso Outotec will launch Horizontal Mill Plant Units as part of its efforts to improve its customers’ efficiency and cut carbon emissions. The company said the pre-engineered plant units provide optimised grinding performance and simplify project management through easy circuit selection and flowsheet implementation. Additionally, they ensure safe operability and maintainability, which the company attributed to their “state-of-the-art design.” The company explained that the plant units would feature “industry-leading technologies, including grinding mills, slurry pumps, hydrocyclones, conveying equipment, automation, and service support. Fernando Marques, global product manager at Metso Outotec,… Read More Here

In order to make mining operations fit for the 21st century, they need to overcome certain bottlenecks by embracing technologies that can make them safer and more efficient while reducing their overall impact on the environment. Recently Hogan Lovells, in collaboration with Africa Legal, surveyed more than 400 professionals across the mining community and interviewed some of the world’s leading mining experts on the future of mining. This resulted in the publication of three reports, the third of which focuses on technology. The influence of technology on the future of mining… Read More Here

Global mining solutions provider Sandvik is optimistic that almost all of its underground mining equipment could be electric by the end of the decade With the mining industry’s focus fixed firmly on tackling operational emissions and sustainability concerns, global mining solutions provider Sandvik is full of optimism regarding its ability to deliver electric-powered equipment by 2030. The Swedish mining company’s ambitious target of the majority of its underground mining equipment being run on electricity signals a shift in the technological outlook for the sector, and the welcoming of a new, sustainable, mining… Read More Here

Mine equipment manufacturer Sandvik has agreed to acquire US-based GWS Tool Intermediate Holdings (GWS), a provider of made-to-order round cutting tools to the general engineering industry, to improve its position in the advanced components sector. Stefan Wilding, chief executive officer and president of Sandvik, described the acquisition of GWS as “an important step” in its growth strategy in North America. The acquisition will be reported in Sandvik’s Walter division, an area of its Manufacturing and Machining Solutions segment. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The company explained that… Read More Here