Underground operations at the Galena Mine near Silverton, Idaho, have been temporarily suspended because of electrical problems with the hoist. The hoist carries workers to and from the underground ...

ABB has been selected by BHP (ASX: BHP) to deliver, install and commission three friction hoists, including one with the world’s largest capacity, and a further electrical system for a Blair service ...

Global power and automation technology group, ABB, has launched a new service product for hoist systems: Hoist Performance Monitoring Service. With this state-of-the-art solution ABB experts can ...

ABB has won another order from LKAB, a high-tech international minerals group in Sweden, to modernize five mine hoists for its iron ore mine in Kiruna, Sweden. The order includes mechanical, ...

Gravitricity has developed GraviStore, an innovative gravity energy storage system that raises and lowers heavy weights in underground shafts – to offer some of the best characteristics of lithium-ion ...

Hindustan Zinc’s major Rampura Agucha zinc mine in India is moving underground and has ordered three mine hoist systems from ABB as key equipment for this. ABB has won an order for three complete mine ...

The installation of a new hoist system was completed at Hutchinson Salt Company last week, replacing equipment that had been pulling salt out of the historic local mine for 99 years. With the ...

Swiss engineering and manufacturing company ABB (SWX: ABBN) has won an order to supply US$11 million of mine shaft hoisting equipment to be installed in 2020-21 in a $186 million expansion of Europe’s ...

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Company Announcement - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has launched a new service product called Hoist Performance Fingerprint to help its customers assess and optimize the ...

As a woman engineer specializing in mine hoists, what unique skills or perspectives do you bring to this field? I find that I excel in training and teaching, which makes it easy for me to transfer my ...