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You may have noticed that we’ve changed domains from Minestories to Solid Ground online, a name that more inclusively reflects our broad range of solutions for the mining and rock excavation industries. Rest assured, you’ll still be able to read and watch the ground-breaking content you’ve come to expect. Thanks for visiting.
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Crushing and screening
ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE. Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based decisions in the recently modernized sulphide processing circuit at Mantos Copper’s Mantos Blancos mine.
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Environment, Health and Safety
Creating better air quality in underground mining environments is one of the most pressing issues facing mining companies today. Goldcorp’s Borden project in Canada is developing the world’s first all-electric mine using Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology equipment to help minimize emissions u...
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Underground drilling
In response to several current needs and trends in underground mining, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has relaunched and upgraded its 400i-class drill family. A common denominator across the series is strong symbiosis of sound engineering design and advanced automation solutions.
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Automation / Underground drilling
NAVAN, IRELAND. An automated approach at an unusual orebody is helping Boliden Tara offset declining grades while increasing productivity and improving safety and sustainability at Europe’s largest zinc operation.
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Rock tools and systems
Sandvik has significant new rock tool product launches in the pipeline for tunnelling and mine development applications. The new bits, tool systems and carbide grades boost the productivity of drilling operations through higher drill speeds and better hole straightness, offering cost savings t...
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Using customer input and with an eye towards automation, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has updated its flagsh...
One of the new features of the Rammer Excellence line is the RD3 remote monitoring device, helping to track and mo...
ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE. Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based de...
A commitment to automation has helped Boliden’s Tara mine offset a high ratio of development metres to production ...
With the acquisition of battery-powered underground equipment manufacturer Artisan, Sandvik Mining and Rock Techno...
Creating better air quality in underground mining environments is one of the most pressing issues facing mining co...
In response to several current needs and trends in underground mining, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has rela...
NAVAN, IRELAND. An automated approach at an unusual orebody is helping Boliden Tara offset declining grades while ...
Basalt production has increased by 20 percent since Vogelsberger Basaltwerk modernized its processing plant by ins...
After transitioning from a combined surface and underground operation to a fully underground mine, Agnico Eagle’s ...
Mining services provider Barminco operates one of the largest underground fleets in the world. Barminco trialed th...
Sandvik has significant new rock tool product launches in the pipeline for tunnelling and mine development applica...
Using customer input and with an eye towards automation, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has updated its flagsh...
ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE. Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based de...
In response to several current needs and trends in underground mining, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has rela...
NAVAN, IRELAND. An automated approach at an unusual orebody is helping Boliden Tara offset declining grades while ...
Sandvik has significant new rock tool product launches in the pipeline for tunnelling and mine development applica...
ZIELITZ, GERMANY. Equipment efficiency and reliability are crucial at the K+S KALI GmbH Zielitz potash plant, one ...
BÜDINGEN, GERMANY. Basalt production has increased by 20 percent since Vogelsberger Basaltwerk modernized its proc...
HEILBRONN, GERMANY. After 120 years of drill-and-blast extraction, one of Western Europe’s largest salt mines tran...
CLONCURRY, QUEENSLAND. A safer, easier-to-install ground reinforcement solution has improved cycle times and helpe...
Dedicated to safe, fair and sustainable mining, the International Council on Mining and Metals is a collaboration ...
RANCAGUA, CHILE. A top-of-the-line cone crusher solution is helping Codelco keep up with demanding processing volu...
Today’s consumers have creative options other than owning a product for a particular application. The question rem...
Creating better air quality in underground mining environments is one of the most pressing issues facing mining co...
Since becoming President and CEO of Canadian miner North American Palladium in 2015, Jim Gallagher has led signifi...
In these days of digitalization and automation, understanding R&D for mining equipment manufacturers can be an...
Site manager and engineer Ines Hagspiel wears many hats – only one of them made from reinforced plastic. Her exper...
In September 2010, Kinross acquired the Chirano mine in Ghana. The mine is situated on the Bibiani gold belt, and ...
Björn Rosengren, President and CEO of Sandvik Group, shares some of his extensive knowledge on the challenges faci...
Stuart Hazeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, talks about how carbon c...
For three days in November, Dyno Nobel and Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology conducted the 11th annual Quarry Aca...
Changes in mining have traditionally moved slowly, but if the industry is to find ways to reverse its “accumulated...
For the past century, the Bernburg mine has produced salt in the heart of Germany. In fact, salt production can be...
The mining sector is currently in a down cycle, the effects of which have miners the world over wondering when com...
With the launch of Abitibi Royalty Search, Abitibi Royalities CEO Ian Ball is looking to gain exposure to ...
A commitment to automation has helped Boliden’s Tara mine offset a high ratio of development metres to production ...
Basalt production has increased by 20 percent since Vogelsberger Basaltwerk modernized its processing plant by ins...
After transitioning from a combined surface and underground operation to a fully underground mine, Agnico Eagle’s ...
Mining services provider Barminco operates one of the largest underground fleets in the world. Barminco trialed th...
Durable surface drills help Esan produce high-quality feldspar and quartz in southwestern Turkey’s Aegean Region.
Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based decisions in the sulph...
Byrnecut Australia trialed our new Sandvik LH621i loader. Managing director Pat Boniwell praised the loader’s impr...
Safety and production are the main drivers for the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK). At the coal producer’s Tal...
Automated haulage with Sandvik TH540 trucks and AutoMine is expected to save $5.6 million over five years at Hecla...
Low grades and high ore volumes put pressure on the process plant at Gold Fields’ Tarkwa gold mine, one of Ghana’s...
Sandvik has financed construction of a six-classroom block after a rainstorm devastated a local school in rural Gh...
PNC Norge AS is tunnelling through two mountains to develop a road 10 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle in Nor...
One of the new features of the Rammer Excellence line is the RD3 remote monitoring device, helping to track and mo...
With the acquisition of battery-powered underground equipment manufacturer Artisan, Sandvik Mining and Rock Techno...
Introducing the new Sandvik LH621i loader, the latest addition to the series. Designed with operator comfort, safe...
More than 200 leaders of the Latin American mining industry met in Santiago, Chile, for Digitalization in Mining –...
The new non-cabin Ranger DXR series surface rigs offer the reliability and large drilling coverage area of the con...
Sandvik HX900 wear plates exceed performance expectations for AngloGold Ashanti, producing a 26 times better resul...
Sandvik RockPulse marks the evolution of top-hammer drilling technology as it works directly with the rock drill a...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Rammer by updating the rang...
Handing over equipment to customers has become something of a yearly tradition for Sandvik Mining and Rock Technol...
Japanese researchers studying gold ions may have the answer to more energy-efficient batteries.
The Clean, low-energy, effective, engaged and remediated, or CLEER, project, is intended to help Canadian companie...
After opening in 1910, the Dome underground mine in Timmins, Ontario, has yielded more than 67 million ounces of g...
