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Miners work with their hands and want to be sure their ‘tools’ are kept as safe as possible, leaving each day with as many fingers as they arrived with. This week’s Blog from Superior Glove explores what you need to consider when choosing the best impact-resistant hand protection for your team.

For mining, efficiency means profitability, and is based in the equipment that ties it all together. This is especially true for trailers, a vital piece of equipment for any operation, no matter the size. This week’s Blog from Philippi-Hagenbuch looks at the various lowboy options available, and how different choices can impact your operation’s overall efficiency.

Cordless Cap Lamps from Provix are a crucial part of personal protective equipment (PPE) in underground mining and tunnelling. This week’s Blog takes a look the benefits of its supply of Wisdom Cap Lamps; from cordless lightweight mobility and longer lasting batteries, to being waterproof with an amazing warranty, Wisdom Cap Lamps are an important visual aid for miners where darkness prevails.

While Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome has many names, the symptoms are all too familiar; tingling and loss of sensation in the fingers, pain and cold sensations, and loss of grip strength. When hands are repeatedly exposed to vibrations, they are at high risk for this injury. This week’s Blog from Superior Glove talks about HVAS and their solutions for PPE that effectively protects hands against vibration hazards.

Reducing maintenance and operating costs, improving equipment reliability, enhancing kiln performance and efficiency, and increasing gold recovery. All are key objectives of gold processors. This week’s Blog from Derrick Corporation discusses their solutions for fine screening in gold processing plants that effectively address these objectives.

For many diamond coring operations, the purchase of consumables is a supply chain decision influenced by the price of the rod. But, while consumables cost is important, it isn’t the only thing mine operators and contractors should be considering. This week’s Blog from Di-Corp discusses how a little extra investment could deliver major dividends by helping to speed the drilling process and reducing downtime.

Ensuring worker safety near machines is a challenging problem. In many cases it is an industry-accepted practice to allow workers to be near moving machinery in order to perform their jobs. Proximity-monitoring and detection solutions have been proven to significantly limit these risks. In this week’s Blog from Provix, we take a look at the benefits of Provix RealTrac, a CAS tracking and industrial system that enhances safety, security, and the overall efficiency of your mining operations.

The shift to the use of locally produced wet sand for fracking has a number of advantages, but comes with several technical challenges that are – fortunately – not insurmountable. This week’s Blog from Derrick Corporation discusses the company’s solutions for wet sand screening to produce desired in-spec frac sand products.

Given the increasing global focus on advanced energy technologies — and the wide range of minerals needed to bring those technologies to reality — minerals mining is expected to skyrocket in the coming years, and smart systems will help lead the way. This week’s Blog takes a look at MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2021 – happening September 13-15 in Las Vegas – which brings together all the latest cutting-edge equipment, innovations, services and technologies to take your operations to a new level and fuel your long-term growth.

Finding ways to make trucks move faster, safer, and more efficiently can help mining operations significantly save costs and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week’s Blog from Finning Canada speaks to some of the most common misconceptions and myths surrounding emissions, and gives you the facts can help guide your operations towards greater sustainability.
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