Entries by Sean Allen
Newcrest Mining Orders Cave Tracker System for its Cadia East Mine
Newcrest Mining will install a large-scale Cave Tracker System at its Cadia East mine in New South Wales. Developed and manufactured by Brisbane-based Elexon Mining, the Cave Tracker System was conceived in collaboration with Newcrest, CRC Mining and Rio Tinto. Newcrest hosted the earliest trials of the prototype system at its Ridgeway Deeps mine. Elexon […]
New cave system improves mine safety and productivity
Mining projects can be dangerous jobs that are difficult to manage, and when things go wrong, the consequences can cost millions. But a new system is tackling both safety and productivity, which could have gains both in Australia and overseas. The Cave Tracker has been developed by Elexon Mining in conjunction with CRC Mining, Rio […]
Cave Tracker Acknowledged as a Semi Finalist in the Australian Technologies Competition
The Australian Technologies Competition (ATC) has shortlisted Elexon Mining’s Cave Tracker as a Semi Finalist – recognising it as one of thirty-eight of Australia’s most exciting technology companies for the ATC16 Business Accelerator. These Semi Finalists are industry leading innovators with the capability to become game-changers across the sectors of energy, manufacturing, food & agritech, […]
Super Smart Markers
The use of Smart Markers in cave mining is gaining momentum. A growing number of companies are employing Smart Markers optimise mining and to ensure that their caving projects yield the promised returns on investment. This year’s Massmin Conference (Sydney, May 2016) had a significant number of papers that directly are based on Smart Marker […]
The holy grail of caving
Read up on Cave Tracker in the latest edition of Rio Tinto’s Mines 2 Markets magazine. Image: Rio Tinto
MassMin 2016 – Shining a light on cave mining
MassMin 2016 is only a week or so behind us, and like you, we are back to work and remembering the many fantastic people and opportunities we experienced at this event. While the memories are still fresh, we want to share our impressions of this great conference. Thank you AusIMM Most of all, we […]
Elexon Mining at Massmin 2016
Elexon Mining is exhibiting at Massmin 2016. This once-every-four-years exhibition is the premier mass mining event. Our team will present a number of papers on the technologies we have developed, and our booth is set up to help attendees learn more about the benefits of our products. It’s fantastic to see the growth in awareness […]
Using ore recovery monitoring with mine reconciliation to improve sublevel caving performance
Reconciliation of the recovered resource is an important instrument for assessing the performance of sublevel caving mines. While the quality of reconciliation has improved significantly the method requires a significant period of production history in excess of 18 months before valid local conditions can be incorporated in recovery estimates. The introduction of computer models which […]
Rio Tinto Joins Forces on Cave Tracking System
Rio Tinto joins forces with CRCMining, Newcrest Mining and Elexon Electronics in the development of a cutting-edge, real-time tracking system for material within block caves, on target to be operational in 2014. Read more on CRCMining’s website.
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