EIT RawMaterials supported start-up Inkonova has developed new autonomous inspection drones for underground mining Inkonova has developed new technology revolutionising the drone market and has secured a major investment from world-leading Terra Drone company. The route to success was based on fast product development with the support of EIT RawMaterials Booster funding in collaboration and ... Inkonova technology leads the way for underground operated drones
MINEX Forum | November 7, 2019 EIT RawMaterials supported start-up Inkonova has developed new autonomous inspection drones for underground mining Inkonova has developed new technology revolutionising the drone market and has secured a major investment from world-leading Terra Drone company. The route to success was based on fast product development with the support of EIT RawMaterials Booster funding in collaboration and ... 
Equipment and services company Scania announced that a multidisciplinary team is working on developing a cabless self-driving vehicle that would ease the workload at mines and large closed construction sites. In a press release, Scania’s president and CEO, Henrik Henriksson, said that the AXL concept truck is steered and monitored by an intelligent control environment ... 
The Kazakh government plans to digitise its mining and metallurgy industries, Chairman of the Committee for Industrial Development and Industrial Safety of the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development Kanat Baitov announced at a July 29 press conference on digitisation of the mining and metallurgical industries. As a part of the 2018 to 2025 ... 
BelAZ (the Belarusian Automobile Plant), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of quarry equipment, and ZYFRA, a company which specialises in industry digitalisation will jointly develop robotisation technologies for the mining industry and set up a research centre at BelAZ for innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence and autonomous transport. The strategic partnership agreement ... 
The UK government will fund a study to assess the feasibility of developing a British lithium supply. A consortium comprising the Natural History Museum, explorer Cornish Lithium and mining consultancy firm Wardell Armstrong. The ‘Lithium for the UK’ project aims to help meet the increase in demand for the battery metal expected from the transition to ... 
One of the biggest applause lines of Elon Musk’s presentation to shareholders at Tesla’s annual meeting was the teasing of a new product – the cyberpunktruck (I assume it’s a working title). Musk said the company spent a lot of time on the design; that it’s the coolest car he’s ever seen and that it ... 
Moscow-based Vist Group, a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Zyfra, announced this week that it launched a robotized towing truck project together with Nazarbayev University and Russian truck maker Kamaz. Using a previous experience robotizing the BelAZ 7513R truck and BelAZ 78250 front loader for open-pit mining, Vist said that it now wants to upgrade the five-wheel ... 
In a series of talks that took place within the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, defenders of the circular economy highlighted the importance of including mining of rare earth metals into their discussions. Based on a research document focused on the Netherlands and prepared by consulting and venture building firm Metabolic, the experts agreed that ... 
Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal in Germany have come up with a new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films. The new process produces a material capable of increasing the efficiency of solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Up till now, traditional chemical methods have not been able to produce ultra-thin and ... 
As the Earth spins into fall and the long shadows of September remind me it’s back to school for families and harvest season for farmers and orchardists, I realize that we are in the midst of two seemingly unstoppable trends: the warming of our planet and the electrification of our energy system, which for the ... 
X-ray technology enabling real-time analysis of gold ore samples Down Under Australian gold explorers have been given the world-first option to access X-ray technology to detect and analyse unseen gold, cutting turnaround times significantly. The photon assay technology was developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) over a period of 15 years, ... 
Scottish aerospace company the Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) has announced plans to launch the UK’s first asteroid mining operation, seeking an investment of £2.3m to build and launch a mining satellite by 2020. The vessel – known as Asteroid Prospecting Satellite One (ASP1) – will be capable of scanning 5,000 near-Earth asteroids to identify deposits ...