An increasing number of mining-related disputes are submitted to international courts and tribunals, in particular in Eastern Europe and the CIS. It is essential that actors in the mining sector, both states and private entities, learn from these disputes. It is equally important to know …

The education project MiReBooks, funded by the EIT RawMaterials initiates a series of Virtual & Augmented Reality based (= Mixed Reality, MR) interactive mining handbooks as a new digital standard for higher education across Europe. MiReBooks is a new digital learning experience. By taking traditional …

In a presentation to MINEX Europe 2019, Paulina Codogni, Owner of Firma Codogni" Sp.j. will give details of a grinding media production method, which is one of the most sustainable and competitive in quality versus price terms. The main feature of this method involves using …

Converting an old socialist mine into a modern digital operation can be challenging, but Anthony Lund, Director of Lazarus Mining has some solutions. Firstly hand-entry of data into excel is necessary. Next, mine operations should work to digitise plans of the mine such that grids …

At present, most equity for junior mining companies is raised on three markets: the TSX, AIM and ASX. According to Steven Rudofsky, the Founder of Talex Commodities Capital, these markets are quiet and it is challenging for companies to raise equity capital that is not …

There are a range of challenges facing the mining sector, particularly as regards the outlook for commodities, the need for government policy reform, and the extent to which mining projects can be held hostage by punitive shifts in fiscal policy. To discuss these and other …

Despite the long mining tradition of Europe, the public awareness of the need for raw materials in everyday life and the public acceptance of mining have decreased over the last few decades. Controversially, the import reliance for certain raw materials considered to be critical for …

The adoption of transformative process measurement technologies in industrial plants, including mineral processing concentrators, does not follow the pattern of the rapid development and adoption, that for example, information technologies follow. These technologies regularly morph into new features and functionality, that provide ever increasing speed …

Productivity remains the number one operational risk in the mining sector particularly in the bulk commodities. To address the productivity gap, often the first choice to mine operators is to deploy some random digital solutions and still stick to the old conventional mining methods, citing …

According to World Mine Tailings Failures, globally there has been a significant increase in tailings failure rates per million tonnes of ore produced over the past two decades, and this trend is set to continue. Jamie Spiers, a Senior Tailings Engineer with SRK Consulting (UK) …