Category: Mining Technology
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Attracting investment and exploration in Canada – Can governments and mining companies use data-driven open innovation initiatives to increase interest in highly prospective regions?
Over the past ten to twenty years, we have seen a steady decline in discovery rates, despite continued and substantial expenditure in exploration and deposits are becoming harder and harder to find. This week’s Blog discusses how can we better understand the environments in which we’re working to target more effectively, as well as how…
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Digitizing Your Orebody: The Massive Shift in Mind for This to be Common at the Mine
The mining industry is global and diverse, with no two sites having the exact same equipment, workflow, workforce, or access to technology. Yet the recent expectations within this industry for companies to digitize their orebody seem to dismissively boil down to embrace industry 4.0 to be more efficient and mine smarter. This week’s Blog looks…
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How Technology is Shaping a Safe and Sustainable Mining Culture
Over the years, industries around the globe have placed a fundamental importance on worker safety and sustainability, and technology provides a powerful asset to assist companies in achieving these goals. This week’s Blog takes a look at how the mining industry has begun to benefit from the positive impacts that various technologies are able to…
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An Affordable Cloud ERP Solution is Now Available for Junior Mines
For any organization with heavy assets, the search for enterprise resource management (ERP) software can be challenging. There are sophisticated requirements at play and heavy costs associated with new systems. And when a mine is trying to maximize investment benefit, while also dealing with the inherent volatility and risk of the industry, any expenditure must…
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Tools for Building Investor Confidence
Canadian mineral explorers and mine developers rely almost exclusively on investors to fund the work they do. Projects might have amazing geology and have perfect location, but none of that matters if the management team is unable to raise money to support exploration activities year after year. This week’s Blog takes a look at how…
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Disrupting the Ordinary
We live in an ever-changing world and in a global age of disruption, the impact of future organizational change will be unavoidable. The is week’s Blog is a review of Leading and Managing Change in the Age of Disruption and Artificial Intelligence, written by Dr. Matthew Donald, which covers the issues surrounding future management, leadership,…
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Accessing the Inaccessible
Carlson Software is helping to make the inaccessible accessible with its Cavity Auto-Scanning Laser System (C-ALS) Gyro, a valuable tool that provides safe, quick, and reliable mapping capabilities for otherwise unreachable underground cavities. This week’s Blog takes a look at this technology and at how it is currently being used at the Cigar Lake Mine…
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Six Ways Industrial Weighing Scales Give Mining Companies a Competitive Edge
An overloaded haul truck puts the safety of a mining site at risk, the safety of employees, and also risks damaging the structural integrity of the haul truck itself. This week’s Blog shows how industrial weighing machines can help ensure that your haul trucks are carrying loads within the permitted weight limits.
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Moving From Defence to Offence: Using 2020’s digital trends to accelerate mine operating performance
Mining companies have come a long way over the last ten years in adopting technology to stay competitive, and the leadership teams of most mining organizations look very different today than they did back then. This week’s Blog takes a look at how the Canadian mining industry is taking opportunities to reinvent itself for sustainability…
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Leading and Managing in an Age of Disruption
In a global age of disruption from artificial intelligence, Brexit, climate crisis, trade wars, and changing employment demands, future organizational change is not avoidable. Fortunately, a new book is available that will help to navigate these increasingly choppy waters. This week’s Blog showcases Leading and Managing Change in the Age of Disruption and Artificial Intelligence,…