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Centralized Blasting - Increas ...
Dyno Nobel
After speaking with Dyno Nobel, the mine decided to implement BlastWeb®, a centralised blasting system that is specifically designed for use in underground mining operations. BlastWeb allows reliable ... Read more
Redesigning Stopes for Improve ...
Dyno Nobel
This underground nickel mine in the Midwest United States is relatively young with only a few years of production blasting. The operation is employing a sublevel stope mining technique. The operator p ... Read more
The user experience of battery ...
MacLean Engineering
Ramp trials of the MacLean BT3 battery electric boom truck in Canada - Switching out diesel fuel for battery electricity on mobile equipment in underground mining is as much of a user experience exerc ... Read more
Battery electric mobile equipm ...
MacLean Engineering
A new era of underground mining is underway. BEV (battery electric vehicle) propulsion on mobile fleets means less energy required for ventilation and less additional heat generated as mines go deepe ... Read more
The space and time between sem ...
MacLean Engineering
The robots are coming: Taking the miner out of mining is the common theme these days as the pace of advance of artificial intelligence quickens, as big data goes from a buzz phrase to business-as ... Read more
Systematic Ground Support - Th ...
MacLean Engineering
The cause for the large drop in fall-of-ground fatalities in Ontario, Canada since the 1960s can be attributed to a variety of factors including increased regulation, better engineering and ground sup ... Read more
What's in a number? The econom ...
MacLean Engineering
The drivers pushing mining companies to seriously look at the EV transition encompass a broad range of benefits – reduced ventilation requirements (30-50% less) and associated energy costs, eliminat ... Read more
MacLean EV Series: Full-Fleet ...
MacLean Engineering
FLEET ELECTRIFICATION THAT CONNECTS THE MINING CYCLE TO THE BATTERY CYCLE: The MacLean approach to battery propulsion is built on giving our customers access to best-in-class battery, electric motor, ... Read more
MacLean Mobile Equipment Innov ...
MacLean Engineering
MacLean Hard Rock Equipment R&D Report: The last 12 months at MacLean have seen the culmination of a two-year phase of intense product development activity, including fleet electrification; face bolt ... Read more
Fragmentation Modeling to Achi ...
Dyno Nobel
This operation was undergoing a complete review of its blasting practices and blast designs in order to ensure the most optimized results were being achieved. Read more
Fragmentation Modeling in Unde ...
Dyno Nobel
A fragmentation model developed in-house by Dyno Nobel was employed to model the fragmentation that would result from changes in the various blast design parameters. Read more
Small Section Bolter Dry Drill ...
MacLean Engineering
Dry drilling on MacLean Small Section Bolter - In 2015, MacLean worked with Petra Diamonds’ Finsch mine in South Africa, the second largest diamond mine in the RSA, to develop a dry drilling option ... Read more