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Automation
El Teniente, located in the Chilean Andes, is one of the largest underground copper mines on the planet. It is also one of the most complex, with many geotechnical challenges. By using automated solutions, the mine has significantly improved safety and productivity. Now, together with Sa...
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Exploration / Mechanical cutting
In the heart of Transylvania, Romania, lies a groundbreaking venture that has redefined the salt mining industry in Romania. Nestled just 12 kilometers from Dej, the Romanian mining company Salzbergwerk Ressourcen und Investitionen (SRL) started a pioneering project to establish the...
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Loading and hauling
KITIMAT-STIKINE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. With more than 18,000 operating hours, underground mining’s largest battery-electric haul truck fleet is delivering marked productivity and environmental improvements for Newcrest’s Brucejack gold mine.
Sustainability
Underground drilling
MO I RANA, DUNDERLAND VALLEY. Eyeing the future of mining, Rana Gruber is making a gear switch and replacing its entire underground diesel fleet with battery electric vehicles from Sandvik. The goal? Becoming the world’s first CO2 emission-free mine by the end of 2025.
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Automation
With Sandvik’s AutoMine system on Toro loaders and trucks, Boliden achieves increased production efficiency through a human-centric approach to autonomous mining while enabling 24/7 operations in Sweden’s deepest mine – Renström mine.
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Underground drilling
After almost a decade as the leaders in battery-electric underground drilling, Sandvik has introduced a new batter...
Sustainability
By creating business opportunities for local entrepreneurs, the Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions carbide recyclin...
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Surface drilling
Top hammer rock tools – same old, nothing new? Sandvik’s rock tool specialists decided there was still progress to...
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Environment, Health and Safety
As the President of the Ground Support division within Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, Martin Rier is responsib...
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Rock tools and systems
On three continents, Sandvik is vastly expanding its capacity to produce cutting-edge batteries and the equipment ...
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According to Elen Toodu, Director, Strategic Product Portfolio Management, Sandvik, the future mine will be full...
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At MINExpo 2024, the mining community will witness the debut of a diesel-electric truck demonstrator by Sandvik. T...
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MineGame is changing the future of mining. Since its development three years ago, the advanced Sandvik simulation ...
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Surface drilling
With the development of its first surface test mine and first battery-electric -concept drill rig for surface mini...
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Automation
El Teniente, located in the Chilean Andes, is one of the largest underground copper mines on the planet. It is als...
Stories
Gilbert Lamarche, Chief Operating Officer, Foran Mining Corporation, sat down with Solid Ground to discuss Foran’s...
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Exploration / Mechanical cutting
In the heart of Transylvania, Romania, lies a groundbreaking venture that has redefined the salt mining...
Sustainability
By creating business opportunities for local entrepreneurs, the Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions carbide recyclin...
Sustainability
Rock tools and systems
Having developed its own unique extraction technology, Sandvik Rock Tools can now offer an industry-leading recycl...
Sustainability
Underground drilling
MO I RANA, DUNDERLAND VALLEY. Eyeing the future of mining, Rana Gruber is making a gear switch an...
Sustainability
Rock tools and systems
What if all down-the-hole drill rigs could eliminate up to one-fifth of their fuel...
Sustainability
Together with four industry partners, LKAB is planning to set a new standard in underground mining. To succeed, th...
Sustainability
Underground drilling
With the launch of Sandvik DD422iE mining and tunnelling jumbo, Sandvik DL422iE longhole drill and Sandvik DS412iE...
Sustainability
Loading and hauling
A healthier work environment, radically reduced energy consumption, a lower carbon footprint and more efficient op...
Sustainability
Launched by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) in 2018, the Innovation for Cleaner, Safer Vehic...
Sustainability
Services
Implementing a sustainable business model involves a complete commitment from any operation that wants to work con...
Sustainability
MPUMALANGA PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA. A milestone project using mine-impacted water to irrigate crops has revealed po...
Sustainability
Loading and hauling
Early in 2019, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology began a collaboration with Lund University’s International Insti...
Sustainability
Is it possible to achieve sustainable business practices, long-term growth and profitability at the same time? Hen...
Stories
Loading and hauling
KITIMAT-STIKINE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. With more than 18,000 operating hours, underground mining’s la...
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Automation
With Sandvik’s AutoMine system on Toro loaders and trucks, Boliden achieves increased production ...
Video
Automation
Perhaps best known for hosting the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, mountainous eastern South Korea is now home to the c...
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Automation
While the LaRonde Mining Complex is often regarded as the mine that created Agnico Eagle, LaRonde Zone 5 is the pr...
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Crushing and screening
A new dual powered mobile crushing plant has more than doubled aggregate production while improving product qualit...
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Crushing and screening
A new mobile crushing plant from Sandvik has replaced an aging stationary plant and provided pit design flexibilit...
Sustainability
Is it possible to achieve sustainable business practices, long-term growth and profitability at the same time? Hen...
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Surface drilling
An unfortunate equipment breakdown proved to be a silver lining for the limestone quarry at Quebec’s newest cement...
Video
Underground drilling
A commitment to automation has helped Boliden’s Tara mine offset a high ratio of development metres to production ...
Video
Crushing and screening
Basalt production has increased by 20 percent since Vogelsberger Basaltwerk modernized its processing plant by ins...
Video
Underground drilling
After transitioning from a combined surface and underground operation to a fully underground mine, Agnico Eagle’s ...
Video
Loading and hauling
Mining services provider Barminco operates one of the largest underground fleets in the world. Barminco trialed th...
Stories
Underground drilling
After almost a decade as the leaders in battery-electric underground drilling, Sandvik has introduced a new batter...
Stories
Surface drilling
Top hammer rock tools – same old, nothing new? Sandvik’s rock tool specialists decided there was still progress to...
Stories
Environment, Health and Safety
As the President of the Ground Support division within Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, Martin Rier is responsib...
Stories
Rock tools and systems
On three continents, Sandvik is vastly expanding its capacity to produce cutting-edge batteries and the equipment ...
Stories
According to Elen Toodu, Director, Strategic Product Portfolio Management, Sandvik, the future mine will be full...
Stories
At MINExpo 2024, the mining community will witness the debut of a diesel-electric truck demonstrator by Sandvik. T...
Stories
MineGame is changing the future of mining. Since its development three years ago, the advanced Sandvik simulation ...
Stories
Surface drilling
With the development of its first surface test mine and first battery-electric -concept drill rig for surface mini...
Stories
Automation
El Teniente, located in the Chilean Andes, is one of the largest underground copper mines on the planet. It is als...
Stories
Gilbert Lamarche, Chief Operating Officer, Foran Mining Corporation, sat down with Solid Ground to discuss Foran’s...
Stories
Exploration / Mechanical cutting
In the heart of Transylvania, Romania, lies a groundbreaking venture that has redefined the salt mining...
Sustainability
Underground drilling
MO I RANA, DUNDERLAND VALLEY. Eyeing the future of mining, Rana Gruber is making a gear switch an...
People
As BEV Category Manager for Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions’ Parts & Services division, Michael Roberts deal...
People
Working as a young, female BEV applications engineer for Sandvik has provided Haley-Anna Blinn with extensive know...
People
Max Planck once said that “science advances one funeral at a time”. His point was ...
People
Data and transparency will help make mining “safer, cooler and more efficient,” according to Newtrax Technologies ...
People
William Pratt Rogers, an assistant professor in mining engineering at the University of Utah, has no doubt that au...
People
Veena Sahajwalla is an accomplished engineer, scientist and inventor, and a passionate advocate of developing a ci...
People
Rebecca Roper is mine manager for Glencore’s George Fisher Mine, an underground zinc, lead and silver mine in Quee...
Sustainability
Launched by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) in 2018, the Innovation for Cleaner, Safer Vehic...
People
From trainee truck operator to shift boss and training manager, Arlene Johnston parlayed her love of mining into a...
Sustainability
Loading and hauling
Early in 2019, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology began a collaboration with Lund University’s International Insti...
Sustainability
Environment, Health and Safety
Since taking over as president of Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology in April 2019, Henrik Ager has guided his cha...
People
Crushing and screening
Adam Slusser loves his job. And why not? At 34, the aggregates plant manager of the CEMEX Balcones Quarry in Texas...
News
Automation
Boliden’s mine in Garpenberg in the middle of Sweden is the country’s most productive and oldest, still...
News
Underground drilling
Facing the challenge of acquiring expensive mining equipment for two short-term subway tunnel and station projects...
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Surface drilling
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Underground drilling
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Loading and hauling
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Loading and hauling
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Underground drilling
The Sandvik 2711 class of drills are simple and safer to operate with robust components and provide an excellent p...
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Loading and hauling
Kirkland Gold Macassa mine in Canada has received two Artisan A10 electric loaders.
News
Surface drilling
RedBull Powder Company realized time and cost savings after becoming the first New Zealand drilling and blasting c...
News
Loading and hauling
The new Sandvik LS312 with quick detachment system (QDS) meets the challenges of underground loading and hauling a...
News
With safety, efficiency and performance paramount, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has launched the new Sandvik...
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Surface drilling
The new, upgraded Dino DC410Ri surface top hammer drill rig from Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology offers signifi...
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