From Australia to Zambia and underground mining to tunneling, Solid Ground online is the visual storytelling portal that serves to inform and inspire the global mining and rock excavation industries forward.
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From Australia to Zambia and underground mining to tunneling, Solid Ground online is the visual storytelling portal that serves to inform and inspire the global mining and rock excavation industries forward.
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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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Services
Innovation drives economic growth, but what drives innovation? Research and development activities enable companies like Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology to create ever better solutions as we race towards a digital future. But in order to meet shifting customer needs, that R&D process is...
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Environment, Health and Safety / Mechanical cutting
The EU-funded underwater mining project ¡VAMOS! continues to prove that conventional thinking can be overcome through canny collaboration and an innovative approach to an age-old problem.
People
In these days of digitalization and automation, understanding R&D for mining equipment manufacturers can be an elusive endeavour. Senior lecturers Paseka Leeuw and Erhan Uludag, of Wits School of Mining Engineering in Johannesburg, South Africa, share their thoughts with Solid Ground
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Mechanical cutting
Record-setting heroes may sound like the stuff of literature, but with the help of Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology’s industry-leading equipment and training, it is as real as it gets at SUEK’s Taldinskaya Zapadnaya-2 mine in Siberia.
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Surface drilling
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has launched an entirely new high-pressure DTH drill rig to complete its offering in the upper hole size range. Building on sound and proven engineering solutions and components, Leopard DI650i delivers solid productivity and advanced automation options for c...
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...
Sandvik RockPulse marks the evolution of top-hammer drilling technology as it works directly with the rock drill a...
Safety and production are the main drivers for the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK). At the coal producer’s Tal...
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...
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...
In these days of digitalization and automation, understanding R&D for mining equipment manufacturers can be an...
Automated haulage with Sandvik TH540 trucks and AutoMine is expected to save $5.6 million over five years at Hecla...
Czech contractor Metrostav is on track to meet the planned opening of a road tunnel in remote north-western Icelan...
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...
TARKWA, GHANA. Low grades and high ore volumes put pressure on the process plant at Gold Fields’ Tarkwa gold mine,...
PAKYI, GHANA. When a rainstorm devastated a local school in rural Ghana, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology answer...
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. Less than six years into production with a cleanskin workforce, Glencore’s Ulan West u...
The new Sandvik LH202 narrow-vein loader offers the best payload-to-own-weight ratio of its class for tunnel width...
High-tech tunnelling through two mountains in northern Norway is paving the way for more accurate, productive and ...
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...
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 relationship between Sandvik and Guizhou Kailin Group Co. Ltd stretches back 30 years. The Sandvik 365 service...
Swedish capital Stockholm has undergone many drastic changes over the centuries. Project Slussen is the historic c...
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.
Whilst graphene is the thinnest and strongest material ever tested, scientists are still discovering more about th...
A new manufacturing facility in South Africa means that Sandvik can continue to effectively cater for the specific...
