Underground mining news delivers focused reporting on the technologies, risks, and innovations shaping subsurface operations worldwide. From shaft sinking and tunneling to ventilation, seismic monitoring, and autonomous equipment, this category tracks how companies optimize performance while ensuring safety below ground. Discover updates on deep mining projects, labor strategies, ground control methods, and new regulatory frameworks. Essential reading for engineers, safety managers, investors, and analysts monitoring the evolution of underground extraction. Related categories include Mining Safety, Mining Technology, and Mining Operations.
By Charles Pitts Vertex Minerals’ approval to operate its Reward gold mine underground for almost the full day has turned a permitting change into an operating-cost test. The varied Environment…
By Charles Pitts The next milestone in autonomous mining is not another driverless truck demonstration. It is the disappearance of the boundary between fleet classes. Epiroc’s…
Nearly three kilometres below the surface of South Africa, South Deep is tackling a problem that has challenged deep-level mining for generations: how do you make…
i.safe MOBILE and RugGear just dropped two purpose-built radios designed to survive the conditions that kill most mobile devices: the intrinsically safe IS440.1 and the industrial-grade…
Smart mining moved a step closer to reality with the announcement that Ericsson and Rogers Communications are deploying a private 5G network at an operational test…
When Coal India Limited announced in its FY2024 outlook that underground production must rise to meet long-term domestic demand, the spotlight shifted to the machines increasingly…
The latest global conference on mercury ended with a partial victory but a glaring omission. At the sixth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention…
A 37.4-carat Botswana pink diamond from Karowe Mine amazes experts with its rare two-tone formation and geological origin.
Underground mine rock falls are not yesterday’s problem. They are today’s quietest risk.
Macmahon Holdings has been awarded an underground mining services contract for the Poboya gold project in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The contract, granted by PT Citra Palu Minerals…
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