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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
Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based decisions in the sulphide processing circuit at Mantos Blancos’ copper mine in Chile.
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Services
Today’s consumers have creative options other than owning a product for a particular application. The question remains, what offers best value for customers: to buy, lease, co-use or share? Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology offers flexible and competitive customer finance solutions in a chang...
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Loading and hauling
Byrnecut Australia trialed our new Sandvik LH621i loader. Managing director Pat Boniwell praised the loader’s improvements, including performance on grade, cabin enhancements, hydraulic functionality and braking.
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Underground drilling
BASASEACHI, MEXICO. At the heart of Mexico’s vast western Sierra Madre mountain range, an award-winning pillar recovery project keeps people safe while meeting tough production targets.
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Loading and hauling / Underground drilling
MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND. Automation and equipment monitoring are helping Redpath Australia exceed expectations at Glencore’s restarted Lady Loretta mine, one of the world’s highest-grade zinc operations.
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The new non-cabin Ranger DXR series surface rigs offer the reliability and large drilling coverage area of the con...
Digitalization is improving predictive maintenance and enabling better-informed, fact-based decisions in the sulph...
Today’s consumers have creative options other than owning a product for a particular application. The question rem...
Byrnecut Australia trialed our new Sandvik LH621i loader. Managing director Pat Boniwell praised the loader’s impr...
BASASEACHI, MEXICO. At the heart of Mexico’s vast western Sierra Madre mountain range, an award-winning pillar rec...
MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND. Automation and equipment monitoring are helping Redpath Australia exceed expectations at Gl...
Sandvik HX900 wear plates exceed performance expectations for AngloGold Ashanti, producing a 26 times better resul...
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Sandvik solicited comprehensive customer feedback to improve its 17-tonne loader. The re...
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO. Revived by a new mining method and a technological transformation, North American Palladium’...
Innovation drives economic growth, but what drives innovation? Research and development activities enable companie...
The EU-funded underwater mining project ¡VAMOS! continues to prove that conventional thinking can be overcome thro...
OptiMine Analytics uses predictive modelling technology to process overall equipment efficiency and productivity r...
Today’s consumers have creative options other than owning a product for a particular application. The question rem...
BASASEACHI, MEXICO. At the heart of Mexico’s vast western Sierra Madre mountain range, an award-winning pillar rec...
MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND. Automation and equipment monitoring are helping Redpath Australia exceed expectations at Gl...
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Sandvik solicited comprehensive customer feedback to improve its 17-tonne loader. The re...
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO. Revived by a new mining method and a technological transformation, North American Palladium’...
Innovation drives economic growth, but what drives innovation? Research and development activities enable companie...
The EU-funded underwater mining project ¡VAMOS! continues to prove that conventional thinking can be overcome thro...
OptiMine Analytics uses predictive modelling technology to process overall equipment efficiency and productivity r...
Record-setting heroes may sound like the stuff of literature, but with the help of Sandvik Mining and Rock Technol...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has launched an entirely new high-pressure DTH drill rig to complete its offeri...
Czech contractor Metrostav is on track to meet the planned opening of a road tunnel in remote north-western Icelan...
BAIE-JAMES, QUEBEC. Hecla’s Casa Berardi gold mine has implemented automated underground truck haulage on a dedica...
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 ...
Rick Howes has seen it all. With 35 years of industry experience, the CEO of Dundee Precious Metals (DPM) has held...
As Section Head of Drilling and Blasting for the mining contractor PAMA at the Jembayan coal mine in Indon...
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...
Rapid development drilling is essential at Peñoles’ Sabinas polymetallic mine in Mexico. The silver-lead-zinc-copp...
For half a century, building materials company Boral has supplied Melbourne, Australia, with construction material...
Just four years into production, Klondex Mines’ flagship Fire Creek operation is on track to produce more than 100...
Tunneling contractor Lemminkäinen Infra Oy is excavating a network of tunnels covering the equivalent area of more...
Goldcorp is developing the world’s first all-electric underground mine in Ontario, Canada, an ambitious project th...
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.
Designed to improve operator safety, AutoMine Tele-Remote for underground loaders offers users the opportunity to ...
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...
Introducing My Sandvik Insight and My Sandvik Productivity, two new offerings that are a part of My Sandvik digiti...
Bringing Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headsets to construction and mine sites could help improve emplo...
OptiMine Analytics uses data-driven simulations to improve planning and optimize processes.
