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February 2021
On-Line Lecture: Application of an Autonomous Rover Platform in Underground Mining Environments
The Application of an Autonomous Rover Platform in Underground Mining Environments Mr Aron Kisdi, GMV & Dr Matt Eyre, Camborne School of Mines 6.30pm Thursday 4th February 2021 The application of robotics across multiple industries has been significant and this talk will focus on the application of an autonomous mobile robot and its deployment in the mining cycle to improve safety and efficiency. The robot has been developed utilising software that has been deployed in space applications and the…
Find out more »Joint BTS/MinSouth Meeting
The Joint BTS/MinSouth Meeting will be spotlighting the North Yorks Polyhalite Project Mineral Transport System Two speakers from Strabag will be presenting work accomplished and planned on this Mineral Transport System. They are Craig Sewell & Jason Fawcett. This transport system includes a 37 kilometre segmentally lined tunnel and a 370 metre deep shaft at Lockwood Beck. The Lecture and the Question and Answer session will be broadcast live on YouTube at 18:00 hours GMT on the 11th of February.…
Find out more »MinSouth Snap-Greener Mining: Is it achievable and how?
Fuel_Economy_Brochure MinSouth Snap Greener Mining: Is It Achievable and How? On Tuesday the 23rd of February, Tim Patterson, Chief Executive Officer of Fuel Economy Solution Limited has agreed to discuss at the MinSouth online luncheon potential means to make mining greener and how. Tim graduated with a BSc.(Hons) in Mining Geology from University College Cardiff in 1988. He spent his first 10 years in industry in underground excavation, initially as a junior engineer with an opencast coal miner and finally…
Find out more »Sundowner
Video conference is done through Wonder. As their web page states: "Wonder is a space where you can connect to others in a more spontaneous and fluid way. You move around freely between groups. It's fun, creative and energizing. We call this concept fluid togetherness, we think it's the future of how people will connect online in future and we're incredibly excited about it. The best thing is that Wonder is going to be a the core of it." There…
Find out more »March 2021
CIM Calgary Webinar – The Mount Polley Tailings Spill: Response & Recovery
Join Lyn Anglin from Anglin and Associates to hear about the recovery from the tailings dam at the Mount Polley Mine 6 years later About this Event Six years after a glaciolacustrine layer under the tailings dam at the Mount Polley Mine failed, and 25 million cubic metres of water, tailings and embankment materials spilled into the surrounding environment, significant progress has been made in remediating the spill impacts. The company has invested on the order of $70 million on…
Find out more »Young Person’s Lecture Competition 2021
The annual MinSouth heat of the Young Person's Lecture Competition (YPLC) will be held on Thursday, the 11th of March beginning at 6:00 pm. Two students from Imperial College (ICL) and three from Exeter University (CSM) will give 15-minute presentations on topics they have chosen and which are relevant to the materials and mining industries. The abstracts of each of the presentations: Alex Lipp - All the world in a grain of sand? Geochemical surveying by unmixing of large-river sediments.…
Find out more »Mineral Characterization for Optimum Sensor-Based Sorting
Installations of both bulk and particle sensor-based sorting (SBS) in the mining industry have increased significantly recently. However, SBS still lacks industry recognition as a pre-concentration technology. In addition to mineralogical characterization, different sensors and their performance parameters are key to understanding orebody heterogeneity characteristics exploited by SBS. Current SBS testwork is often hit-or-miss—or worse, amenability is assessed only by desktop study using default parameters from “similar ores.” This gap in standardized methodology for SBS characterization is often linked to…
Find out more »Sundowner
Video conference is done through Wonder. As their web page states: "Wonder is a space where you can connect to others in a more spontaneous and fluid way. You move around freely between groups. It's fun, creative and energizing. We call this concept fluid togetherness, we think it's the future of how people will connect online in future and we're incredibly excited about it. The best thing is that Wonder is going to be a the core of it." There…
Find out more »April 2021
Implementation of Autonomous Systems in Mining Guideline V2 – Health and Safety, Regulations, and Workforce Community and Social Impact Workshop 1
About the project: The first version of the Guideline for the Implementation of Autonomous Systems in Mining is being used within the industry as a playbook for effective autonomous systems implementation, as a way to understand customer needs, and as an educational, communications, and operational tool. Version 2 will offer updated guidance and considerations on justifying, planning, developing, testing, implementing, and executing autonomous systems. About the workshop: Workshop participants will review and revise three sections: Health and Safety, Regulations, and Workforce Community and Social Impact, which focus…
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