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JANUARY 2022
12 HIGH PROFILE - Diemme Filtration Filter press leader Diemme Filtration recently launched its world record GHT5000F DOMINO model that offers the world ' s largest mining operations a new option for tailings management as dry stacking becomes the norm rather than the exception
14 SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLIERS South African mining nous and a favourable local procurement policy are seeing equipment orders boom for those in the local METS space , Dan Gleeson reports
28 PROCESS CONTROL Mining is converging the board room and the control room , as Remote Operations Centres integrate not just operational people but also market people . Paul Moore looks at how this part of mining is developing
36 MAINTENANCE Machine and plant uptime continue to be focus areas for mining companies looking at maintaining or boosting production levels in the face of labour shortages and site-level access restrictions . Dan Gleeson hears from key players in the METS sector on how they are overcoming these hurdles to help achieve industry goals
46 MINE POWER Miners have some difficult power choices to make to hit their net zero goals in the next few decades . Dan Gleeson explores some of their options
52 COLLISION AVOIDANCE The technology is there today to enable conventional manned machines , not just autonomous ones , to slow down or stop themselves to avoid collision with another machine or worker . But applying it in practice is not without its challenges , reports Paul Moore
63 FATIGUE MONITORING Fatigue monitoring in mining , both reactive and predictive , has moved well beyond a few trials and first adopters . It is now seen as an intrinsic part of most major mine health and safety plans and helping instil a new culture of managing tiredness and drowsiness among operators , reports Paul Moore
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COVER : Diemme Filtration
Diemme Filtration on November 30 officially unveiled its record breaking GHT5000F DOMINO filter press via a live online event from its headquarters in Lugo , Italy . The widely anticipated model was 100 % assembled at the factory and is the largest filter press in the world – with a nominal plate size of 5 x 5 m capable of handling over 8,000 t / d – and is bound for an as yet unnamed Peruvian copper mining company which is to use it as part of a major new tailings project , first in a pilot trial but later as part of a much larger bank of up to 9 or 10 of these presses for a total capacity of over 80,000 t / d . www . aqseptence . com www . im-mining . com
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FATIGUE MANAGEMENT COLLISION AVOIDANCE
MINE POWER PROCESS CONTROL SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLIERS MAINTENANCE HIGH PROFILE - Diemme Filtration
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