Fibre optics enables temperature mapping

Consulting engineering and project implementation firm Hatch reports it has developed a Tapblock Fibre Optic Temperature Measurement System that provides accurate temperature readings from previously inaccessible locations inside a furnace. Hatch...

Great Basin reports power-infrastructure progress in SA

JSE- and TSX-listed Great Basin Gold reported on Monday that the construction of the power infrastructure necessary to supply its Burnstone mine, in South Africa, would start in January 2010. The design work on the first two lines between the...

Rio Tinto forms autonomous drilling alliance with Atlas Copco

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has formed an alliance with industrial group Atlas Copco to work together to develop autonomous drilling solutions for surface mining, it said on Thursday. The company said that the alliance would accelerate the...

Proportional relief valve offers universal protection solution for process instrumentation

Hydraulic filtration specialist company Parker Instrumentation has developed a pressure equipment directive (PED)-certified, proportional relief valve for process instrumentation applications, with the ability to provide protection over a broad...

New hydraulic cylinder series features enhanced configurability

The new cylinder series CDM1 of modular design from hydraulic company Rexroth features a number of design improvements and significantly improved configurability

New equipment to assist in the drive to combat silicosis

To improve the quality and speed up the laboratory analysis of silica dust, a health hazard in the mining industry, parastatal science council the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has acquired the Bruker D8 Advance, an x-ray...