Epiroc and Orica have successfully co-developed a prototype of the world’s first semi-automated explosives delivery system. Customers in the underground mining industry can look forward to safer, efficient and more productive development blasting as early as the end of 2021,...
6th Sense is the Epiroc way to optimize our customers' value chain through automation, system integration and information management – enabling a smart, safe, seamless operation. Insight is the starting point Data is a key in our modern world. Today massive...
By Joel Schroeder, Director of Land Mobile Products, Intelsat, mining operators around the world continue to lean on new technologies and industry-specific applications to optimize and enhance operations, security and safety at mining sites. As this digitization of the...
Proterra Inc, a leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, and Komatsu, a global leader in construction and mining equipment, today announced a new collaboration to electrify next-generation underground mining machines using Proterra’s battery technology. Under the collaboration, Proterra will...
With protected hydraulics, sensors and cables, Epiroc’s new Boomer M20 is designed and built to minimize unplanned stops and maximize uptime and performance in highly demanding operations. This is the next generation in underground mining. A challenging part of underground...
The underground mining landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years, with evolving battery technology acting as a catalyst to change in the industry. As part of the ongoing effort to lead the charge on this battery electric transformation, Epiroc has...
Symboticware Inc., an industry leader of real-time data management solutions for global mining operations, announces collaboration with Nokia on private wireless and Industrial IoT (IIoT) to transform connectivity and improve communications and location services. The partnership brings forward a complete...
Philippi-Hagenbuch expands its custom engineering portfolio of HiVol Hard Rock Bodies to include asymmetrical bodies that are optimized for underground environments. Philippi-Hagenbuch manufactured and delivered the inaugural four bodies for articulated John Deere 260E haul trucks working in an underground limestone...
In 2016, Pucobre, a Chilean selective underground copper mining company, was in a conundrum. Grades at its ore deposits were falling, and global prices were unstable. The company knew it needed to change to remain competitive and began looking...
Komatsu has introduced the second generation of the company’s Z2 product line of small-class development drill and bolting equipment with enhancements and additions, including the first battery-electric offerings within Komatsu’s underground hard rock portfolio, an pumpable resin system solution,...