In a bid to drive global adoption of electronic detonation, AEL Mining Services and its joint venture subsidiary DetNet announced they are focusing on specific innovations highlighting the technology, which has enabled a higher degree of blast optimization by providing key features such as precision timing, pre-blast fault identification and rectification ability, as well as improved safety and security.

On any mining project, good management of the flow of information between organizations is crucial. One of the processes that involves the most amount of information changing hands, and is vital to keeping a project on schedule, is vendor document management—the collection and expediting of the contractually-binding documentation from firms engaged in the supply of equipment packages and components.

Competing in the major 30-ton size class for construction, road maintenance, small mining and quarrying ADTs, the TA300 is designed to give both the owner and the operator the features they want: safe high performance, low cost maintenance and comfort that allows the operator to work optimally through the shift.

The systems most susceptible to wear and tear have been designed to perform through long service intervals, maximizing uptime, and to be as easy and quick to service as possible, minimizing downtime.

Combining a powerful data engine with a virtual geological toolkit, GeoVisionary software is allowing  stereoscopic 3-D visualization of terabytes of landscape photography and altitude data together with underlying geological data, making it of great interest to mining and exploration geologists.