Category: Mining Safety
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Focus on a Digital Strategy to Transform Your Mining Operations Post Crisis
If you are an organization that is considering a strategy that reverts back to the same old way of thinking pre-COVID, it’s safe to say that you are moving in the wrong direction. This week’s blog from SAP systems integration and management consultancy Illumti talks about what you need to consider when transforming to future-proof…
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Megacharging the Future of Mines
To curb the costs associated with ventilation, an increasing number of mining companies are turning to electric vehicles. But one of their biggest challenges they face are inconsistencies between each electric vehicle’s design and charging needs. This week’s Blog takes a look at a new innovation from Meglab that addresses that challenge; the MegaCharge™ charging…
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The ‘Titan’ of Geosynthetic Innovations for Mining, Infrastructure, and Safety
Technological advances bring to market many new and often more environmentally friendly construction materials that become alternates to conventional products. This week’s Blog from Titan Mining Infrastructure Solutions explains two of innovations currently disrupting industry; Concrete Canvas® and Mine-Shield Grid™.
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Empower Your People with a Mobile-First “Mine-Set” and Run a More Intelligent Operation
SAP Business ByDesign provides mines with a comprehensive mobile and cloud-based solution that connects every department within an organization with real-time analytics and tracking tools. This week’s Blog from Illumiti demonstrates how to enable immediate access to information and decision making while on the move, and across massive stretches of land in rugged and remote…
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Meglab Collaborates with Bell to Create Seamless Networks, From Underground to Surface
To help businesses keep up with an ever-changing technological world, Meglab offers solutions to support transformation initiatives aimed at the mine of the future. This week’s Blog takes a look at a recent collaboration between Meglab and Bell to create a seamless network for Eldorado’s Lamaque mine, in an effort to improve overall speed, security,…
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Remote Vehicle Operation in the Mining Industry
Meglab has propelled themselves to the forefront of worker safety-innovation with their newest technology, the MicroGuide® Pro Surface Edition. This week’s Blog takes a look at this app that mining companies can use to remotely operate underground vehicles from surface and is easily adaptable to match client needs.
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Quarrying and Mining Machinery Safety: The Benefits of Collision Avoidance Technology
It is said that more than 15,000 miners are killed in the global mining sector annually than in any other industry, and many more are injured. This week’s Blog from Brigade Electronics talks about what you can do, and what tools are available, to help bring those numbers down.
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Centurion Canada Rentals & Services Offers Innovative Solution to Combat COVID-19
As a second wave of COVID-19 is spreading across Canada, Centurion Canada Rentals & Services is doing its part in helping to protect Canadian workplaces and communities from the virus. This week’s blog looks at how sewer surveillance, combined and enhanced with COVID-19 saliva screening, is able to bring a proactive early warning detection measure…
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Making the Mining Industry Safer for Its 620,000 Workers
A digitally-connected mine can improve jobsite safety and create a leaner, more efficient operation. But the enormity of the mining industry has led to a slower, and often fragmented, digital transformation. This week’s Blog takes a look at the digital divide and discusses the importance of bridging it.
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Exyn’s Autonomous Drone Helps Safely Evaluate a Closed 1940s Mine
An underground gold mine complex in British Columbia from the 1940s probably isn’t where you’d expect to find cutting-edge technology. This week’s Blog looks at how older mines that weren’t profitable to excavate decades ago could, for the first time, be mapped and be revived using Exyn’s technology.