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How technology can help miners comply with new global tailings standard guidelines

Monitoring, Tailings, Uncategorized

According to Robin Bolton, head of sustainability at IsoMetrix – a company that develops software for integrated risk management – one of the major challenges that miners face when it comes to preventing these accidents is that 79% of them use multiple tools in their risk management process.  In his view, this fragmented approach causes …

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Pandemic to accelerate industry automation – report

Automation, Uncategorized

Fitch asserts the pandemic will prompt a rethink of operational strategies, supply chain vulnerabilities and investment trends. Mining and metal players are likely to accelerate the incorporation of technology and automation in operations and to explore their options to shorten and simplify supply chains, the analyst predicts. Increased social and political risks Meanwhile, covid-19 is …

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SXiQ delivers Orica’s transformation out of the datacentre into the Cloud

Blasting, Explosive, Uncategorized

Australian based cloud integrator SXiQ has delivered a multi-million-dollar project to migrate Orica, an Australian-based multinational corporation that is one of the world’s largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining industry, from multiple datacentres around the world into the Cloud. Orica’s impetus for change arose from several key business challenges, including: …

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Schneider Electric-controlled AVEVA buying mining real-time data major OSIsoft

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AVEVA Group PLC, a global leader in industrial software, announces that it has reached agreement on the terms of an acquisition of OSIsoft, at an enterprise value of $5.0 billion. AVEVA is in turn 60% held indirectly by Schneider Electric. Founded in 1980 by Dr J. Patrick Kennedy, OSIsoft is a global leader in real-time …

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