Mine site Technologies to launch repeater stations by mid-2008 (26-Oct-2007)
Though the technology has been proven as operable, there is still considerable industrial design to be undertaken to have the initial stage 1 repeater stations to be available as an intrinsically safe product. Mine site Technologies remain confident these repeater stations will be available by mid-2008.
Mine Site Technologies to show ImPact underground communications at AIMEX (15-Aug-2007)
Mine Site Technologies (NSW) will show a number of new technologies, including its ImPact underground digital communication network, ICCL cap lamp with radio and 802.11b RFID tag, and Proximity Detection System, on Stand 1825 during AIMEX 2007 – Asia Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition, to be held at Sydney’s Olympic Park from September 4 to 7, 2007.
DeBeers' mine purchases Mine Site Technologies’ ICCL cap lamps (16-May-2007)
DeBeers' Snap Lake mine in northern Canada has purchased another 200 ICCL's from Mine Site Technologies complete with PED pager receiver for use by its underground miners.
Mine Site Technologies forms alliance with AeroScout (15-May-2007)
Mine Site Technologies and AeroScout have formed an alliance to provide AeroScout's world recognised Wi-Fi based active RFID technology into industrial applications such as oil and gas facilities, ports and mining.
Mine Site Technologies supplies Leaky Feeder Radio Systems to mines (14-May-2007)
Mine Site Technologies has supplied two VDV Leaky Feeder Radio systems to two mines from Volcan.
BlastPED centralised blasting system available from Mine Site Technologies (11-May-2007)
BlastPED available from Mine Site Technologies is a remote 'radio' based blast initiation system, i.e. a remote firing unit.
Newmont's Jundee Mine orders PED version ICCL (10-May-2007)
Newmont's Jundee Mine in Western Australia has ordered 220 of the PED version ICCL available from Mine Site Technologies.
PED System available from Mine Site Technologies (13-Feb-2007)
Zinifex's Rosebery Mine in Tasmania, Australia has ordered a PED System to provide emergency warning and general paging for all its underground operators.
ImPact Digital Mine Communications System from Mine Site Technologies (13-Feb-2007)
Scorpio Mining Corporation has chosen ImPact Digital Mine Communications System for its new Nuestra Senora silver-lead-zinc mine in Sinaloa State, Mexico.
Coal mine to install tracking system (29-Sep-2006)
Centennial Coal Group has just ordered a TRACKER Tagging System for their Springvale Coal Mine. Springvale is about two hours west of Sydney in the Lithgow coalfield area.
Underground communication solutions (15-Aug-2006)
UNDERGROUND communications solution-provider Mine Site Technologies (MST) will be on stand 1039 at the 2006 Goldfields Mining Expo (GME) in Kalgoorlie 24 to 26 October.
Demand to rise for underground comms (22-Mar-2006)
Following the recent highly publicised deaths in a US coal mine, the West Virginia state legislature has passed laws that require mines to install a communications system that can reach miners underground.