Amid a deafening din, the massive machine sucks up thousands of tons of mineral sands an hour, moving forward on an ...
Like something from the science fiction film Dune, the “world’s biggest mining dredger” has been swallowing acre after acre ...
The jagged 23-kilometer-long scar that the gigantic rig has left for mining zircon — which is used in ceramics and the building industry — is so big that it is visible from space. Amid a ...
Much of mining involves digging and drilling holes in the ground. Often, these holes need inspecting, but [Dean Harty] found that existing borehole inspection solutions weren’t up to snuff.