Industry News 2019

Stornoway Diamonds is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and producing company. It owns and operates the Renard Mine (Figure 1), in commercial production operation since 2017. It is the first diamond mine in Québec and one of six in Canada. Renard Mine started with an open-pit mine and subsequently opened an underground mine. The conditions of the mine presented Stornoway ...

Lucara Diamond Corporation owns the Karowe diamond mine in Botswana, which has been in production since 2012. The mine is recognised as one the foremost producers of very large, high-quality Type IIA diamonds in excess of 10.8 carats. Historic recoveries include the 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona – the second-largest gem quality diamond ever found – and the 813 carat ...

In the past, a coal-fired power plant was once in operation in the Belgian town of Flémalle. The coal residues are landfilled on a fly ash stockpile. Now, the stockpile is to be entirely emptied and the terrain transformed into a nature park. A pipe conveyor of the BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, is being used to transport the fly ash to ...

Caterpillar presented a number of new longwall mining products and solutions at the International Trade Fair for Mining, Power Generation and Metallurgy in Katowice/Poland. Together with the regional Cat® dealer, Bergerat Monnoyeur, Caterpillar showcased its latest technologies in the MCK Hall. The Caterpillar exhibit featured digital presentations of new longwall machines, technologies and services – all designed to make longwall ...

Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck/Germany, has acquired a stake in Focus Field Solutions Inc., a leading provider of industrial safety solutions based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador/Canada. With this latest investment, Dräger extends its expertise in the area of digital worksites. Focus FS has developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which digitizes critical operations data ...

Flexco Europe GmbH, Rosenfeld/Germany, has come out with the EZP1T, an advanced version of its proven EZP1 precleaner. The models in this new series incorporate a torsion spring instead of a tension spring, which means they take up less space than the standard version (Figure 1). Conveyor system operators benefit from faster and easier installation. The EZP1T is available with ...

GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Gelsenkirchen/Germany, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy vehicles for mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering, is focusing on Turkey as a growing market: An extensive cooperation with the regional partner Foramec has been agreed. Hoşgeldin! The Turks welcome GHH. The country on the geographical threshold from Europe to Asia is considered a hungry growth market. ...

Pleuger Industries GmbH, the Hamburg-based quality manufacturer of submersible motor pumps, exhibited in the Germany Pavilion of Asia Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition 2019 (AIMEX) in Australia. In addition to the latest applications in the fields of mine drainage and process water pumping, the Pleuger management presented an energy-efficient synchronous motor with permanent magnet drive, which scores with low life cycle ...

The companies Halbach & Braun Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. (HB) and Wollbrecht Technische Innovationsgesellschaft mbH (TIG) have agreed on a takeover of TIG’s mining products by HB. TIG was active in the mining industry for more than 50 years. In the process, outstanding competence in the field of safe chain tensioning was developed, which was reflected in market leadership in ...

TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based sorting technologies offer mining operations the dual benefits of energy efficiency and the ability to recover valuable ore even from sub-economic deposits or dumps. This has become increasingly relevant as the mining industry – a very large consumer of energy – is shifting towards a Green Mining approach to reduce its environmental footprint in the face of ...