Posted by Paul Moore on twenty seventh June 2024
Nerospec OSCON says that it has achieved group-wide standardisation with Concord Gold. Its options will now be carried out throughout all Concord Gold mines, enhancing security and effectivity. It added: “This partnership is a major step in our mission to create safer mining environments. By integrating NEROSPEC OSCON’s revolutionary applied sciences, Concord Gold is setting a brand new benchmark for security and operational excellence.”
Particularly, it covers deployment of the neroHUB Automobile Intervention Management System which helps to allow Degree 9 collision avoidance. South Africa’s Division of Mineral Sources and Vitality (DMRE) introduced into regulation in December 2022 the Chapter 8 clauses of the Mine Well being and Security Act Rules regarding Degree 9 car intervention for collision avoidance in trackless cellular equipment, each floor and underground.
The neroHUB supplies a common interface for Trackless Mining Machines (TMM) and Collision Warning Programs (CWS). It will increase productiveness and improves mine security with the clever use of CRAWL and STOP processes in addition to offering uniform and safe data to advertise operational effectivity.
Concord operates eight underground gold mines within the Witwatersrand Basin – Moab Khotsong, Mponeng, Tshepong North and South, Doornkop, Joel, Goal 1, Kusasalethu and Masimong. It additionally operates the Kalgold open pit. Outdoors of South Africa it operates the Hidden Valley open pit gold and silver mine in PNG, the place it additionally has 50% of the Wafi-Golpu underground challenge. In Australia it has the Eva copper challenge.
In its 2023 ESG report, Concord states: “Concord goals to adjust to laws as a result of we care about staff’ security, not simply compliance. We started our proactive journey in the direction of higher security necessities properly earlier than it turned laws on 22 December 2022 when the South African authorities legislated that trackless cellular equipment should be retrofitted with a Degree 9 collision avoidance system…our implementation plan is particular and measurable, contemplating price, upkeep and productiveness implications. Primarily based on web site danger assessments, we conduct ongoing information administration and reporting in addition to worker consciousness campaigns.”
