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Trains with Brains Will Haul Ore Through Earth’s Closest Thing to Mars

March 25, 2015
A few years ago, NASA sent a “Spaceward Bound” expedition to Australia’s remote Pilbara region. The region’s rugged and red-hued plains appeared to be a good analog for Mars. Up to a point.
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CSG to LNG: a (very) cool compress

February 18, 2015
On Queensland’s Curtis Island, a giant GE chain reaction has been set in motion. A combination of technologies from across GE—including aero-derivative engines, oil-and-gas centrifugal compressors and power turbines—has been integral to the development and commissioning of a world-first coal-seam gas-to-liquid-natural-gas facility. The unique gas-compression trains take freshly “shrink-wrapped” LNG all the way from regional Queensland to tanks on the island’s dock.
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This Software is Worth its Value in Platinum: South African Smelter Embraces Big Data

August 05, 2014

Africa’s economic expansion was largely driven by commodities over the last decade. But today, satisfying demand involves more than just pulling ore and minerals from the ground faster. Companies like South Africa’s platinum producer Lonmin are embracing the Industrial Internet and Big Data to go smarter about their jobs.

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Confronting the ‘Blood Money’ of Conflict Minerals

July 04, 2014
If you’ve texted, chatted, computed, flown, opened a fridge or put on jewelry today, chances are good you’ve come in contact with one of the “conflict minerals”—tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—used to fund the bloody 18-year-old war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The war has killed an estimated 5 million people since the turn of the century and is characterized by the worst kinds of human rights abuses, rape as a weapon and the recruitment of child soldiers.
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Seeing around corners: helping save lives under ground

February 10, 2014
Several hundred metres below the earth’s crust, fully laden shuttle cars weighing as much as 40 tonnes, continuously move coal from the coal cutting machine to the crusher feeder using underground roadways which are only 5.4 metres wide and 2.5 metres high.
Even though the vehicles move slowly underground, the operators cannot rely solely on their senses, to see what vehicles or people are in their blind spots.
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Meet the coal mining machine that never sleeps

January 28, 2014
Deep below the earth’s surface, a curious, flat, snake-like machine is busy slicing its way through low and narrow coal seams.
It’s longer than a bus, barely the height of a tennis racket, and rarely needs to stop as it leaves behind vast underground caverns supported by pillars of coal and rock.

Known as the GE Fairchild F330, it’s one of just a few continuous mining machines that can selectively target these narrow seams to extract high quality coal between soft, sedimentary rock.
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GE Accelerates Growth in Mining with Planned Acquisitions of Equipment Makers Industrea Ltd. and Fairchild International

May 15, 2012

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GE Transportation and Komatsu Complete Delivery of the First AC Mining Trucks in India

January 27, 2010

Erie, Penn. (January 27, 2010) - GE Transportation and Komatsu announced today the delivery of 17 Komatsu 830E-AC mining trucks containing GE240AC™ drive systems to Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL). The units will be the first AC mining trucks in India.

HZL is currently expanding production at the Rampura Agucha Mine as demand for zinc continues to rise around the globe. The AC trucks provide increased productivity and availability levels while lowering life cycle costs.

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GE Transportation Celebrates 45 Years of Electric Drive Systems Leadership in Mining Trucks

September 21, 2008

Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 21, 2008 -- GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and global technology innovator in the mining industry, celebrates its proud 45-year heritage as a leader in electric drive systems powering giant mining trucks in markets worldwide. GE's mining business showcases its product portfolio for Off-Highway Vehicles (OHV) at MINExpo International 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev.

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