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07/15/2025
Sustainable Mining: Technologies and Practices That Are Changing the Ind
The search for more sustainable mining is not just a trend, but an urgent necessity in the face of growing...
04/07/2025
Minecraft: Enthusiasm for technology
When we hear about geology, metallurgy, or engineering, it is common to imagine technical terms, complex formulas, or...
09/12/2024
3 Successful Mine Closure Cases
Just as important as planning the extraction and use of mineral resources is planning for the end of mining operations...
05/19/2023
The lithium race
Lithium has been the subject of a global race in recent years between countries such as Chile, Argentina, Australia and…
01/26/2023
Unobtainium: the differences between the Avatar mineral and real life
Avatar is back on the screen after 13 years with the new film production "Avatar: The Way of Water", which continues the…
11/07/2022
International Resource and Reserve Codes and the CBRR
After the Bre-X Case, considered the largest fraud in the history of mining, it became even more necessary to use good…
07/08/2022
Remote Sensing applied to Mining
With the evolution of technologies provided by Mining 4.0, the use of remote sensing is increasingly constant in the…
05/13/2022
Mining 4.0: future or reality of mining?
Industry 4.0 aims to make industrial production processes more efficient through the prioritization of innovative…
03/08/2022
6 Dictionaries and glossaries ideal for Geology and Mining professionals
You have probably interrupted a book or technical article because you do not understand the meaning of a certain word or…
03/03/2022
ANNUAL MINING REPORT (RAL): what you need to know
The Annual Mining Report (RAL), imposed by the current legislation, in Art.67 of the ANM Normative Consolidation…
11/16/2021
Innovation, Technology, and High-Resolution Images: DMT Corescan
The geological information that supports activities such as mining is largely the result of drilling techniques. Thus,…
10/07/2021
QA/QC in Mining: safety, reliability, and best practices in mining
One of the main objectives of mining is to make the ore exploited marketable. For this to be possible, strict quality…
08/11/2021
Automation in Mining: The Kiruna Case
The future of mining points to a trend towards increasingly continuous and automated processes, aiming to meet the…
04/22/2021
The Bre-X Case and the movie Gold: The story behind the mining fraud
The film Gold, translated as Gold and Greed, is a 2016 production inspired by the story of the mining company Bre-X. The…
05/21/2020
Uranium: Geology, Exploration, Applications
Uranium, classified as a chemical element, is identified by the symbol U and has an atomic mass of 238. In...
05/14/2020
The Zeche Zollverein mine and the beginning of mining in the Ruhr Valley
The Ruhr Valley in western Germany, an important industrial region in Europe, was dominated by coal mines and steel…
05/08/2020
Geophysical methods in Mining
Geophysics studies the physical phenomena that occur on Earth, both in the most superficial layers (crust) – where miner…
04/28/2020
Drilling in Mining: Methods and Equipment
The geological information that supports activities such as civil construction and mining is largely obtained through…
02/11/2020
Zollverein Coal Mine Complex
For almost 200 years, western Germany was the industrial center of the country, with the Ruhr Valley, located in the…
01/15/2020
Gold as a safe haven in geopolitical crises
In recent weeks, gold has again entered a wave of appreciation in the financial market, reaching 1,556 USD/oz on Monday,…
12/13/2019
DMT Corescan – High technology in core logging
The DMT CoreScan is a versatile device designed to obtain high-resolution images of complete or fragmented core cores…
11/20/2019
What is sampling and how does it apply to Mineral Exploration?
Sampling is a statistical technique that means extracting a part (sample) from the whole (population) with the purpose…