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Underground mining moves into a more connected era

As underground mines face mounting pressure to lift production rates, improve safety and extract greater value from increasingly capital‑intensive assets, operators worldwide are turning to integrated explosives and blasting solutions to deliver more predictable and efficient outcomes. According to Derrick Menezes, regional manager for underground operations at BME, the need …

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SADC Told To Turn Quarry Economies Into Factories

The minerals powering the global industrial race are abundant across SADC, yet much of the region’s economic value still leaves with the ore. From copper and lithium to platinum, cobalt, chrome and manganese, a resource advantage that should be feeding factories, supply chains and high-value industries remains heavily concentrated at …

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When maintenance-system compliance starts replacing plant reliability

Asset reliability and condition monitoring form a major part of WearCheck’s business. Through its Asset Reliability Care (ARC) division, WearCheck provides a broad range of specialist condition monitoring, diagnostic and asset reliability services across industries and throughout Africa. These capabilities include vibration analysis, thermography, online remote monitoring and diagnostics, alignment …

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AHK Sharpens Zambia’s Edge in Regional Mineral Analysis

Mineral samples from Zambia and across the region could increasingly stay closer to the mines they come from, with Alfred H Knight (AHK) expanding its analytical footprint through a new geochemistry laboratory in Kitwe. The facility strengthens Zambia’s capacity to provide locally based mineral analysis for mining and exploration companies …

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