JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Diversified mining company Anglo American is implementing new techniques that give the company far more control over tailings dams, which have been thrown into the spotlight after the tragic loss of life at Brumadinho, in Brazil, where an iron-ore tailings dam collapsed at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao mine earlier this year killing...Read More

Digital twins are multiplying in the IT sector. Defined by the Defense Department as a simulated model of a physical process, product or service that “uses sensor information, and input data to mirror and predict activities/performance over the life of its corresponding physical twin.” They can help government agencies operate more efficiently and at lower...Read More

It has been a bad decade for South Africa’s mining industry. Once the country’s flagship industry, revenues have flatlined, operating costs have jumped, and the environment is fraught with political and regulatory upsets. But these are five technologies that the Mandela Mining Precinct, launching in Johannesburg on Friday September 14th, is eyeing to change South...Read More