8 PERATION FOCUS –
Celopech John Chandwick retued to this highly advanced mechanised copper-gold underground mine in Bulgaria to find world leading operating practices, including extremely well-organised maintenance and training, all aimed at better utilisation and doubling ore production and reducing cost/tonne. All this is being achieved without any increase in personnel or the mining fleet.
22 SIMULATE AND SAVE -
Save accidents and training costs. Using simulators can create training and refresher course applications, serious situation exercises that allow operators to build skills in a practical and cost effective way, and can also prove process designs, as John Chandwick discovers.
34 DEEP MINING -
Including a look at some major Canadian deep mining research programs, John Chandwick looks
at progress in deep mining research, advances in ventilation and cooling, hoist rope monitoring, mine support and development and ore haulage.
48 NORDIC FOCUS -
IM’s undertakes its annual examination of technologies and services from the region. Suppliers in Finland, Sweden and elsewhere are world leaders in underground hard rock mining machines and mineral processing, and a lot more.
60 CONVEYORS -
Paul Moore has just reported back from Belo Horizonte that our first In-Pit Crushing and Conveying conference was a great success; more news from that event next month. But in this article, John Chandwick looks at gearless drives, grasshopper conveyor advances, cleaning belts and around them, and much more.
70 NICKEL FUTURE -
Closing our series of Great Mines articles on First Quantum Minerals, Paul Moore looks at two worldclass nickel mines about to be commissioned – Kevitsa in Finland and Ravensthorpe in Australia – though in the latter case it is a reopening after a long and difficult road for the former operator.
76 HIGH PROFILE -
The case for contracting. In an exclusive interview with Bruce Munro, Managing Director of Thiess, the world’s leading surface contract miner, Paul Moore explores some of the issues unique to contract mining, as well as the Thiess approach to equipment and technology.
78 MINING TECHNOLOGY -
Every month IM posts around 100 news items to its website, mainly technology related. In a new monthly feature, here are some recent highlights.
Celopech John Chandwick retued to this highly advanced mechanised copper-gold underground mine in Bulgaria to find world leading operating practices, including extremely well-organised maintenance and training, all aimed at better utilisation and doubling ore production and reducing cost/tonne. All this is being achieved without any increase in personnel or the mining fleet.
22 SIMULATE AND SAVE -
Save accidents and training costs. Using simulators can create training and refresher course applications, serious situation exercises that allow operators to build skills in a practical and cost effective way, and can also prove process designs, as John Chandwick discovers.
34 DEEP MINING -
Including a look at some major Canadian deep mining research programs, John Chandwick looks
at progress in deep mining research, advances in ventilation and cooling, hoist rope monitoring, mine support and development and ore haulage.
48 NORDIC FOCUS -
IM’s undertakes its annual examination of technologies and services from the region. Suppliers in Finland, Sweden and elsewhere are world leaders in underground hard rock mining machines and mineral processing, and a lot more.
60 CONVEYORS -
Paul Moore has just reported back from Belo Horizonte that our first In-Pit Crushing and Conveying conference was a great success; more news from that event next month. But in this article, John Chandwick looks at gearless drives, grasshopper conveyor advances, cleaning belts and around them, and much more.
70 NICKEL FUTURE -
Closing our series of Great Mines articles on First Quantum Minerals, Paul Moore looks at two worldclass nickel mines about to be commissioned – Kevitsa in Finland and Ravensthorpe in Australia – though in the latter case it is a reopening after a long and difficult road for the former operator.
76 HIGH PROFILE -
The case for contracting. In an exclusive interview with Bruce Munro, Managing Director of Thiess, the world’s leading surface contract miner, Paul Moore explores some of the issues unique to contract mining, as well as the Thiess approach to equipment and technology.
78 MINING TECHNOLOGY -
Every month IM posts around 100 news items to its website, mainly technology related. In a new monthly feature, here are some recent highlights.