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Cordless Cap Lamps Breaking Ground in the Mining Industry
“Amazing product. Light is powerful and batteries last forever.” “Awesome cap lamps.” ” Most durable cap lamp I ever used.” “Brighter than anything I used before.” “Dropped it in the muck and it still worked.”
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Worker Mental Health Awareness Training Receives Ontario Funding
Many worksite locations are remote work camps or in the northern Ontario region, where access to medical care is more difficult than in southern Ontario. This week’s Blog from Workplace Safety North looks at how their training and resources are today helping forestry and mine workers, thanks to a recent funding announcement from the Province of Ontario.
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Plug and Play Electrical Connections for Mining Applications
Moving conveyors and other electrically powered aggregate processing equipment can be a challenging task. This is especially true when sand and grit can get in the threads of pin-and-sleeve connectors and make it difficult to get them apart when needed. This week’s Blog from MELTRIC talks about how their Switch-Rated plug and receptacle solutions have made these kinds of site-to-site moves much easier.
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Innovative Network Capabilities Lead to History-Making Mining Operations
With the increasing quantity of mining sites around the world comes the added risk of disasters. This week’s blog from Rajant looks at their wireless network solution, and how it can enhance innovative and advanced technological capabilities, and ensure incidents can be investigated rapidly and effectively – not only powering robotics, drones, and mobile equipment but also ensuring that the daily operations of a mining site remain running as seamlessly as possible.
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Provix: Improving Visibility at the Mine Site with Thermal Cameras
Navigating heavy equipment in darkness, dust, fog, rain, snow, and steam is a challenging task, and equipment lights can be distorted causing additional visual distraction. This week’s Blog from Provix Inc. takes a look at how their thermal camera solutions can make your mine site safer.
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Skeena Resources’ Value-Based Approach to Reconciliation
Throughout Canada, mining companies need to consider the implications their projects have on Indigenous cultures and economies. This week’s Blog from Skeena Resources takes a look at their value-based approach to the tenets of reconciliation at its Eskay Creek gold-silver mine located in Tahltan Territory.
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Weaving Two Worlds: Economic Reconciliation Between Indigenous Peoples and the Resource Sector
Weaving Two Worlds: Economic Reconciliation Between Indigenous Peoples and the Resource Sector Written by Christy Smith and Michael McPhie In Weaving Two Worlds (coming March 1, 2022 from Page Two Books), Christy Smith of K’ómoks First Nation and Vice President of Indigenous and Stakeholder Relations with Falkirk Environmental, has teamed up with long time B.C. resource sector exec Michael McPhie, founding Partner and Co-Chair of Falkirk Environmental and past President and CEO of the Mining Association of B.C. Together, they call for urgent action on Indigenous reconciliation—and lay out the steps that individuals, corporations and the industry as a whole can, and must, take. …
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Conveyor Technology: Designing For the Future by Innovating the Present
Higher production demands across all bulk handling segments require increased efficiency at the lowest cost of operation, in the safest and most effective manner possible. This week’s Blog from R. Todd Swinderman takes a deep dive into everything you need to know about modern chute and conveyor designs and improving productivity for the future.
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Provix: Improving Visibility at the Mine Site with Thermal Cameras
Navigating heavy equipment in darkness, dust, fog, rain, snow, and steam is a challenging task, and wquipment lights can be distorted causing additional visual distraction. This week’s Blog from Provix Inc. takes a look at how their thermal camera solutions can make your mine site safer.
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Advancing the Commercial Potential of Geothermal Energy for Oil Sands Mines
A new study is looking into the application of geothermal energy in oil sands mining and is moving the commercial potential of this renewable energy source closer to reality. This week’s Blog explores the study and what its findings may mean for the oil patch going forward.
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