We interviewed Juan Maita Postigo, Senior Engineer who specializes in maintenance, strategy, and development. His career has spanned some of the top mining companies in Chile.
Full storyMining Maintenance Interview – Pablo Hernández, Maintenance Engineer.
We interviewed Pablo Hernández, Maintenance Engineer; with more than 27 years of experience in the mining sector across the major mining companies in Chile. Today, he provides us insight into the maintenance operation and how it has changed over recent years.
Full storyMining Exploration Technology
Less than one per cent of exploration projects typically progress to establishing a mine. New discoveries are hard to come by and technology will play a huge part in finding new deposits. In order to be successful, the industry continues to innovate, creating new tools, approaches and techniques.
Full storyProject Spotlight – Salares Norte Gold Project
Gold Fields announced in January 2021 that it had formally began construction of the mining infrastructure at the $860m Salares Norte project in the Atacama Region in northern Chile. The project unique circumstances means it will need to deploy high levels of technology making it one of most digitalized mines in Latin America.
Full storyThe Importance of Dismissal Letters
Companies often overlook the importance of the dismissal letter. An improperly drafted dismissal letter will lack the legal grounds to ensure the cause of dismissal would be upheld if the matter were to go labor courts.
Full storyAnglo’s Technology Summary Part 2
In part two of our summary, we will focus on the FutureSmartMining program that Anglo has been working on since 2017. The idea of the FutureSmartMining program is to reduce the environmental footprint from new ways of mining, by using precision mining technologies and data analytics.
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