Mining robots: Rio Tinto doubles down on autonomous drilling
Rio Tinto is employing a further nine autonomous drilling systems at its mines in Pilbara in Western Australia, taking the total to 20. The technology enables a remote operator using a single console to control four autonomous drill rigs simultaneously. Julian Turner reports on an industry revolution. Julian Turner August 29, 2018.
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Integrating renewable energy into mining operations: …
Fig. 1 ranks the largest producers of minerals in the world and categorizes their production into subgroups. Note the particularly high volume of iron and ferro-alloy metals – which include steel and stainless steel – produced worldwide. All energy requirements associated with the extraction of iron ore as well as the production of steel …
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Kolomela Iron Ore Mine, Northern Cape
The Kolomela Mine is situated near Postmasburg Town in the Northern Cape Territory in South Africa. Mining operation at Kolomela started in late 2011. A stacker-reclaimer is used at Kolomela to blend different grades of processed ore before shipment. Kolomela produced 13.2Mt of direct shipping iron ore in 2019.
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Better drilling for Ausdrill in Western Australia's Pilbara iron ore
Better drilling for Ausdrill in Western Australia's Pilbara iron ore. Posted by Daniel Gleeson on 24th December 2014. Drill Rigs Australia's (DRA) new DRA-600E Series Reverse Circulation (RC) drill rig has successfully completed its commissioning and first months of operation at Rio Tinto's Pannawonica mine site in the Pilbara of Western ...
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Open-Pit Mining | Method and Process | Epiroc US
Open-pit mining technology. Open-pit mining clearly offers a number of economic advantages over underground mining, especially now that mineral-processing technology has advanced to the stage where very low-grade ores can be treated profitably. 100 to 150 years ago, this was not the case, and mining was still much more selective.
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Operations | Anglo American – Kumba Iron Ore
The ore quay at Saldanha has two berths where two vessels of 310,000 deadweight tonnage can simultaneously tie up at the iron ore jetty. The terminal operates 24/7 and has the capacity to offload 10,000 tonnes per hour onto a vessel. From arrival to departure an ore vessel carrying 170,000 tonnes will be in Saldanha Bay for just 24 hours.
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Energy Efficiency of Drilling Operations | SpringerLink
This chapter aimed to review the literature on energy efficiency of drilling operations in mineral industries. It discusses drilling systems, factors effecting drilling work, and the general relations between the type of drilling systems and the properties of rock. Additionally, the chapter makes recommendations for future research directions ...
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Blastability and Ore Grade Assessment from Drill …
Mining consists of several unit operations linked to each other, and the performance of the initial stages (drilling, charging and blasting) pre-conditions the downstream unit operations in the production cycle (Ghosh 2017).For an efficient blasting, it is essential to have a well-defined characterization of the rock mass; automatization in …
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Mine Planning and Optimisation Techniques Applied in an Iron Ore …
[Show full abstract] analyse the mechanical behaviour of a fibre-reinforced cemented iron ore tailings (IOT) through unconfined compression tests in specimens moulded at different points on the ...
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Controlling fragmentation
ore on electricity; an equivalent amount on grinding media in the SAG circuit alone; but only $0.30/t of broken ore on explosives at the drill and blast stage. Yet, the blasting process is a much more energy efficient method of fragmenting rock. The need for energy efficient processing is becoming increasingly important as we continue
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Mining Engineer
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(PDF) Occupational Exposure of Noise Level in Opencast Iron Ore …
among the top producers of iron ore in the world with. the total resources of over 33.276 billion tonnes. India is the third largest steel producer and fourth. largest iron ore producer in the ...
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(PDF) Prediction of rotary drilling penetration rate in iron ore …
Used parameters in the investigation of penetration rate of rotary drilling machine in the iron ore mine. Min. Max. Symbol Parameter No. 6.80 35.0000 F Feed (ton force) 1
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What Equipment and Tools Are Used For Drilling?
Drilling tools are the various types of equipment used to dig into the ground during drilling operations. These tools include machinery and serve a specific purpose in the drilling process. 1. Bridle. The bridle is a device used to support and distribute the weight of the polished rod, reducing stress on the surface equipment. 2. Polished Rod …
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An Open-Pit Multi-Stage Mine Production Scheduling Model for Drilling
optimising the open-pit drilling, blasting and excavating operations under equipment capacity constraints. The flow process is analysed based on the real-life data from an Australian iron ore
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Major Mines & Projects | Yilgarn Operation
The Yilgarn Hub is located in Western Australia's Goldfields region and incorporates the Koolyanobbing, Parker Range and Carina mines. MinRes is exploring transforming its Yilgarn Hub from a hematite to magnetite operation, which will extend the life of the operation. Mineral Resources (MinRes) will cease Yilgarn Hub iron ore shipments by ...
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Koolanooka Iron Ore Mine, Morawa
SMC reopened the historic Koolanooka Mine in Western Australia in April 2010. Image courtesy of SMCL. Koolanooka iron ore mine is located 60km south-east of Geraldton and 20km east of Morawa in Western Australia. The Koolanooka deposit was first discovered in 1961 and mining at the site was carried out between 1964 and 1974 by …
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Exploration drilling | Epiroc
Exploration drilling. Prospecting and exploration drilling is the first phase in the life cycle of a mine, followed by development, extraction and finally closure and reclamation. These activities involve searching for mineral deposits using a variety of geological methods which often occur simultaneously and can take 2–8 years to complete.
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A Review of Sublevel Stoping
A single lift design is the most basic arrangement for a sublevel stope extraction. The stope shape and size is constrained by two sublevels; the extraction and the drilling horizons. Access to the stope is via cross-cuts off a permanent access drive parallel to the. FIG 12 - Holes toeing into the stope boundaries.
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ISO 3082:2017 (en), Iron ores — Sampling and sample …
This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 102, Iron ore and direct reduced iron, Subcommittee SC 1, Sampling. This fifth edition cancels and replaces the fourth edition ( ISO 3082:2009 ), which has been technically revised. It also incorporates the Technical Corrigendum ISO 3082:2009/Cor.1:2009.
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Creating the zero-carbon mine | McKinsey
We have used an iron ore mine in Australia as an example to see what the world's first zero-carbon mine could look like. 2 In this particular example, haulage trucks are the single biggest source of emissions from the mine (accounting for 20 to 25 percent of the total), followed by comminution or crushing equipment (approximately 20 percent ...
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(PDF) SELECTION OF THE MOST PROPER DRILLING AND BLASTING PATTERN BY
The basic approach taken in this optimization study entails analyzing the blasting operations carried out at drilling diameters of 250 mm (the blasting technology used in Rosia Poieni open pit ...
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STANDARD WORK PROCEDURES (SWP)
Drilling reverse circulation (RC) Date last review: 04/02/2023 Application: Date of next review: 04/02/2025 Outlines general procedure to drill and sample RC operations Equipment: Drill rig Version: 2.1 Procedural Steps Possible Hazard(s)/Risk(s) Safety Control Required Personnel Prepare to drill Offside to have sample area set out prior to ...
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(PDF) A Selection of Drill Rigs using Overall Equipment Efficiency
Journal of Science and Technology Research 1(2) 2019 pp. 41-52 ISSN-2682-5821 A Selection of Drill Rigs using Overall Equipment Efficiency Approach a George Agyei, bIsaac Asamoah a Department of Mining Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana Asanko Gold Mine Ltd., Ashanti Region, Ghana b ARTICLE …
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Major Mines & Projects | FMG Operation
As one of the world's largest producers of iron ore, Fortescue Metals Group's (FMG) wholly owned and integrated FMG operations in the Pilbara include the Chichester, Solomon and Western mining hubs. The Chichester Hub includes the Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek mines. The Solomon Hub comprises the Firetail, Kings Valley and Queens Valley mines.
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Significant Contract Updates
associated equipment for the contract with capex expected to be ~$20 million, predominantly falling in 2024. Gabon Drilling & Mining Services Contract Update • Ramp up of operations at our load & haul, crushing and drilling contract with Ivindo Iron SA proceeding well: Operations continue to ramp up successfully at the Ivindo project. …
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Planning an Iron Ore Mine: From Exploration Data to …
Abstract. The process of developing an iron ore mine from exploration data through to informed mining decisions provides an example of a Complex Adaptive System. The detailed composition of an ore body (expressed as a "block model" of regularly spaced rectangular blocks) has to be estimat-ed from initially sparse exploration data, based ...
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Major Mines & Projects | AMMC Operation
Generally speaking, 2.6 metric tons or raw ore need to be extracted from the ground to produce one metric ton of iron ore concentrate. Drill operators drill deep 16-meter holes in line with a predetermined plan. These holes are filled with an explosive mixture that smashes the rock by blasting.
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Champion Iron reports record Bloom Lake production
During the quarter, the company produced an additional 374,400 wmt of DR quality iron ore concentrate, grading 67.6% iron with a combined silica and alumina content of 2.8%. DR ore represents a ...
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(PDF) Optimized design of drilling and blasting …
Drilling and blasting are the two most significant operations in open pit mines that play a crucial role in downstream stages. While previous research has focused on optimizing these …
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