Recently Massey Energy joined other companies and a federal agency in the demonstration of a technological breakthrough in mine safety that promises to save dozens of lives in the industry. The new technology is a ‘proximity detection system’ developed for use on continuous mining machines. The system detects the presence of coal miners and automatically […]

Snowden is presenting its newest professional development course, Change-of-Support - getting to the high grade, at its UK office in Weybridge on September 12-13.
Change-of-support is a group of geostatistical tools that allows the user to predict the behaviour of smaller mining units from larger block estimates. This process is required if the available data […]

NLT Australia, a subsidiary of NL Technologies (NLT) in Canada and known throughout the mining industry for product innovation, has received certification of Intrinsic Safety (IS) from Test Safe in Australia for its integrated Tracking Cap Lamp.
NLT’s underground tracking solution uses standard wireless networking technology with WiFi and RFID tags to offer immediate and accurate […]