Tag: Mining Technology
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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.
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Canada’s Mining Workforce is Changing
How we find, build, operate and reclaim mines in Canada is being rapidly transformed by innovative technologies and the achievement of transformational change requires a new vision for mining that is ambitious enough to drive a change in performance and operational goals. This week’s Blog takes a look at a recent report from the Mining…
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Accessing the Inaccessible
Carlson Software’s Cavity Auto-Scanning Laser System (C-ALS) Gyro is helping to ensure that the inaccessible becomes accessible by providing reliable mapping capabilities for otherwise unreachable underground cavities. This week’s Blog takes a deeper dive into Carlson’s innovation and at how it can potentially resolve some of the mystery of what may lie below.
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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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Microsoft Gains More Territory in Mining
Excel will always have its place, but Azure platforms are now taking mining into industry 4.0. This week’s Blog takes a look at how DataCloud is partnering with Microsoft in delivering real-time information so that mining partners can better understand how their operations can be optimized to their specific geology.
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Mines’ technology push means new approaches to digitization
As mining companies increasingly look to new technologies to improve their productivity, they are starting to think differently about how they approach such bleeding edge issues as digitization and automation. This week’s Blog takes a look at how the development of new technologies and related software are becoming increasingly crucial in optimising overall efficiency and…
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Hitachi expands its geochemistry handheld analyzer product range the X-MET8000 Geo Optimum
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science recently introduced a new accessible model of the popular X-MET8000 Geo handheld XRF analyzer optimized for soil and mining grade control applications. It offers unrivalled price-performance ratio with a rapid return on investment (ROI) allowing immediate on-site decision making rather than having to send samples for laboratory analysis. Easy to use…
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If Cyber Security Conversations Aren’t Happening at Board-level Then You’re Behind
After the same person successfully cyber attacked several Canadian mining companies, a conversation began about how at some point, it’s not the bad guy’s fault, but rather the company’s for enabling it. Learn more about this hot topic in the latest Blog!