Interest increases in 3D profiling and blast design technology

Over the past three years, there has been a significant increase in the use of three-dimensional (3D) photogrammetric, or stereophotogrammetric, blasting survey and profiling technology for both surface and underground mining applications...

Company Announcement: UWA To Launch Powerful Ion Probe Facility

Attached please find a press release on: The University of Western Australia now boasts a world-first imaging and analysis facility with the addition of a powerful and sensitive instrument that can search for evidence of the earliest life on...

De Beers awards contract for Namaqualand, Alexkor

Barely two months into operation, Southern Mapping Company has been granted a contract by mining giant De Beers to conduct lidar aerial surveys of its own Namaqualand diamond mine and its newly formed joint venture with government, Alexkor diamond...

Technology sorts minereals based on atomic density

A new mining product is said to recover up to 98% of pure coal, says Mintek’s specialist in physical seperation, Carl Bergmann, who believes that this will open up new possibilities for the commercially viable mining and dry processing of...

Uses image-processing algorithms to idenify mineral assemblages

Gold producer AngloGold Ashanti is hoping to bring its protoype hyperspectral core imager (HCI) to the production phase.

World first as X-ray imaging sorts run-of-mine coal

In a world first in mining, advanced X-ray technology supplied to the Central Energy Fund has proven successful in sorting run-of-mine coal and torbanite.

AngloPlat emphasises Merensky reef over UG2

There are a number of projects currently under way which attempt to understand the petrology and geochemistry of the Merensky and upper-group-two (UG2) reefs, explains Anglo Platinum consulting geologist Gordon Chunnett.

Public private cross company research – the new buzz

Collaborative research is the latest craze to hit the mining industry as companies and research institutions discover that co-operating on