Technology

Changing the face of energy consumption and innovation demands big and bold ideas. It asks that organisations, sectors, and service providers invest in solutions that change how energy is consumed, created, and managed. And the mining sector has been meeting these big and bold requests head-on. This sector, facing complex …

GroundProbe has launched one of the industry’s most advanced doppler radars for reactive geo-hazard monitoring, the RGR-Velox. RGR-Velox (Reactive Geo-hazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides and avalanches. It detects, tracks and alarms on moving geo-hazards in real-time, keeping …

Fires are unpredictable and can spontaneously combust and start anywhere at any time, with disastrous consequences. Imagine being stranded on a ship, in the middle of the ocean and a fire spontaneously occurs. The fire brigade would be out of reach and your only saving grace might be to jump …

Pix4D, the industry leader in photogrammetry, announces today the commercialization and worldwide exclusive distribution of the viDoc RTK rover, enabling ground-based RTK-grade 3D scanning with iOS mobile phones and tablets through the Pix4Dcatch app. Conceived by viGram GmbH., a German company led by professional surveyors, the viDoc RTK rover is …

Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, recently invested several million Rand in four brand new laboratory instruments for their flourishing transformer division laboratories in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. WearCheck managing director Neil Robinson says the company’s investment in the equipment has relieved some of the current sample volume pressure and reduced …

Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) together with Full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) data company Bell Geospace have launched Mineral Prospectivity Mapping project, the project promotes access to integrated quality geoscience data which goes a long way in determining the success of operations in a region. The project was launched during the …

Botswana Diamonds has drilled two holes at depths of 67 m and 61 m, respectively, with one of them intersecting 4 m of kimberlite from about 54 m to 58 m depth at its Marsfontein project, in Botswana. The objective of the company’s latest drilling campaign was to test a …

Condra has completed manufacture of eight explosion-proof, high-lift hoists – four of them articulated – for Tenova Bateman. All are custom-built, two-speed machines that utilise the modularity of Condra’s K‑Series to deliver performance capabilities precisely tailored to the individual requirements of each application. After commissioning at Kusile Power Station, the …

Russian companies have offered African countries solutions based on the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to boost mining production. The offers follow the realisation that traditional means are becoming increasingly expensive, with productivity falling due to technical maintenance costs, unreliable equipment, reactive troubleshooting, a lower equipment utilisation …

It is through a combination of deep historical knowledge, innovative exploration techniques and new exploration methods made possible by advanced and modern-day exploration technology that AIM and BSE-listed diamond explorer Botswana Diamonds believes will lead it to its next big discovery, this is according to MD James Campbell. Campbell believes …