By loading, transporting and offloading draglines for opencast mining clients in one piece, global engineered heavy lifting and transportation specialist Mammoet says it is driving project feasibility ...

DURING recent months the provision of sufficient coal to meet the growing needs in Great Britain of the munition industry, as well as the domestic consumer, has been exercising the minds of the public ...

Mining solutions provider Wirtgen South Africa (SA) is engaged in extensive talks with various mining companies about solutions for their greenfield and existing mines. Surface miners are set to ...

When it comes to safety in open-cast mining, soil stability is one of the most critical factors. Settlement of the ground or slipping of slopes poses a great risk to buildings and people. Now Mahdi ...

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - London-headquartered South African coal mining company Bisichi Mining PLC said on Tuesday that it had begun opencast mining operations at its Black Wattle undergound mine ...

Satellite-based mapping of coal fire is an effective technique in terms of cost and time. At present, ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is the only available ...

(1) Earthworm populations were estimated in topsoil stored during opencast mining for coal and in replaced soil. Soil from the surface of storage heaps was replaced separately from that within heaps. ...

“This approach hasn’t been [applied] yet to mines in Africa, but Mammoet is actively pursuing mines to showcase this way of relocating draglines,” Mammoet marketing and communication adviser Maruzaan ...

Researchers have evaluated data from the Sentinel 1 satellite mission of the European Union's Copernicus program and thus demonstrated new possibilities for monitoring mining areas. The researchers ...