Procurement Efficiency

Fuel cells with brains: How smart methanol tech is keeping remote mine sites running, quiet, and green - even when solar taps out or winter bites

What if the smartest way to power your remote mine site was silent, clean, low-maintenance - and already outsmarting diesel and solar in the field? For Chelsea Kovacs, business development manager at SFC Energy Canada, the answer lies in compact, intelligent fuel cell technology - specifically, direct methanol fuel cells that operate quietly, efficiently, and with minimal emissions.

WA’s quartz underdog aims for tech stardom with ultra-pure play and a two-mine comeback backed by China ties and savvy ore sorting science

A new player in Western Australia’s industrial minerals space is making a serious tilt at Asia’s booming demand for high-purity quartz (HPQ), with a dual-mine revival strategy backed by testwork breakthroughs, smart ore sorting, and a boots-on-ground presence in China’s quartz processing heartland.

Falcon Bolt system slashes intersection support time by over 70 percent, boosting safety and cutting costs at Tomingley Gold Operations underground mine

In a decisive move that rewrote its approach to underground ground support, Tomingley Gold Operations has phased out twin-strand cable bolts in favour of Falcon Bolts—an innovative self-drilling, mechanically anchored system developed by Jennmar Australia.