COVID-19 has been ruthless to almost every mine's productivity. Every hour lost is impossible to gain back. So how do you optimise on the...

My kind associate Kenn Smart allowed me to use this graphic from his collection of BASICS of EARTHMOVING booklets. In surface mining, it...

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Know the feeling... when you're losing precious time because of fighting the software instead of running iterations and scenarios... You...

Orapa diamond mine located 240km west of Francistown city in Central Botswana is the ninth largest diamond mine in the world by reserve....

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The mining industry is notorious for its volatile nature as commodity prices fluctuate. History shows that it's the companies that can...

This process is used for the concentration of particles that have sufficiently different colours (the best contrast being black and...