Coal Mine News &
Technology Updates

 Centennial Coal’s Angus Place Coal Mine near Lithgow, NSW is upgrading its cap lamps by changing over to the Integrated Communications Cap Lamp (ICC... MORE » 

Xstrata Coal's Beltana Mine to Install Digital Tracking System as part of Cap Lamp Upgrade

Xstrata Coal Beltana Coal Mine, located in the Hunter Valley coalfields in NSW, Australia, has chosen MST's ICCL cap lamps and d... MORE »

Anglo Coal Mine Installing Underground Tracking and ICCL

Anglo Coal Australia's Moranbah North Mine has selected MST's underground tracking and ICCL cap lamp systems as part of their c... MORE »

Austar Coal Mine Enhance Emergency Preparedness with PED and RFID Tracking

Austar Coal Mine, owned by the Chinese Yancoal group operates a top coal caving longwall coal mine near Cessnock, NSW, Australia. Austar ha... MORE »

 Two-Way PED Demonstrations Continue in West Virginia

Mine Site Technologies and their distributors for eastern USA, CSE Corporation, have completed the latest series of demonstrations of the Two-Way PED System in West V... MORE »

ICCL Cap Lamp Approved by MSHA

Mine Site Technologies is pleased to announce the Integrated Communications Cap Lamp has received approval from Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) in the US... MORE »

Two-Way Through-the-Earth Communications at 480 m Deep Coal Mine

We are pleased to update those interested in wireless emergency communications that recent development testing of the Two-Way PED System at BHPB's West Cl... MORE »

Xstrata's United Coal Mine Tagging System

Xstrata Coal has ordered a TRACKER Tagging System for their United Coal Mine in the Hunter Valley, NSW.   Similar to Springvale Coal Mine's recent TRA... MORE »

Springvale Coal Mine to Install Tracking System

Centennial Coal Group has just ordered a TRACKER Tagging System for their Springvale Coal Mine.  Springvale is about 2 hours west of Sydney in the Lithgow c... MORE »

Emergency Preparedness at Newlands North to include PED and TRACKER

Xstrata’s new coal mine in Queensland Australia, New North Mine, has ordered the new Integrated Communications Cap Lamp (ICCL) with both PED Paging and... MORE »

Chinese Coal Mine to install PED and TRACKER Systems

Baijigou Coal Mine (see picture below) is the first coal mine in China to order our new ICCL cap lamp with both PED and Tagging electronics included. This will enable... MORE »

BHP Billiton Broadmeadow Coal Mine PED System

BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance’s new underground coal mine in central Queensland has ordered a PED System to provide the main emergency warning system at the mi... MORE »

Newpac Coal to Install PED

Newpac Coal Mine is a new mine development in the Hunter valley, NSW, Australia. As the mine readies itself for longwall production the communication infrastructure was ... MORE »

Chinese PED Systems Operating Well

Two MST technicians, Darren Koski and Dave “Harry” Butler, recently completed the commissioning of a number PED Systems in China. As well Darren began the coal mine approval process fo... MORE »

Centennial Coal Largest PED User

Centennial Coal's recent purchase of Powercoal's NSW coal mines now makes Centennial the largest operator of PED Systems. With some of Centennial existing mine using PED, and now the Po... MORE »

BHPB to Install PED in San Juan Mine in New Mexico

San Juan Coal Mine is BHPB's new underground mine in New Mexico, USA. San Juan issued a tender for the supply of a communication and emergency warning system in late 2... MORE »

Glennies Creek Coal Mine PED System

Glennies Creek Coal Mine (owned by Namoi Hunter Coal and Consol Energy) in the Hunter Valley NSW has installed a PED System to provide emergency warning and general communications, as... MORE »

Baal Bone Mine PED System

Enex has just ordered a PED for their Baal Bone coal mine near Lithgow. The system will use a 9 km (5 miles) surface antenna to provide signal to the underground entries and longwall blocks. T... MORE »

Three New PED Installations

South Bulga Colliery has recently completed the commissioning of a PED System at their mine in the Hunter Valley, NSW. The PED system operates from a five kilometre (3 mile) long surface ante... MORE »

Metalliferous Mine News & Technology Updates

Barrick Gold has installed PED, Digital Communications and Tracking at their two mines in Nevada, Meikle and Rodeo.   As Anton Meyer, Senior Control ... MORE »

 Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia have undertaken a major upgrade of their underground communication infrastructure by introducing MST’s digital backbon... MORE »

Case Study - Digital Communications in Underground Copper Mine

The underground digital communication system in use at Dahongshan Copper Mine continues to give payback to the mine in operational ... MORE »

 BHPB Ekati Mine Converts to Light Weight Cap Lamp

BHP Billiton’s Ekati Diamond Mine in northern Canada has converted their cap lamp fleet from lead-acid batteries to light weight lithiu ... MORE »

Jundee Mine Choose PED for Emergency Warning System

Newmont's Jundee Mine in Western Australia has ordered 220 of the PED version ICCL. Key reasons for Jundee to go with ICCL were:- Cost reduction - existing ... MORE »

Rajant Wireless Breadcrumbs Deliver a Safety Benefit to an Australian Gold Mine

Mine Site Technologies (MST) has provided a remote area communication solution based on Rajant's 802.11 Wireless Mesh Breadcrumbs for Beaco... MORE »

Wireless Mesh Delivers Highest Quality Communications at Rio's Kennecott Copper Mine

There has been a lot of talk about wireless mesh systems being used in mines.  A lot of it has not advanced past small scale tria... MORE »

Lisheen Mine in Ireland install VDV Leaky Feeder Radio System

Anglo American's Lisheen Mine is an underground zinc mine located in county Tipperary in Ireland.  Lisheen is a relatively shallow mine mining a tabular... MORE »

 Hochschild Mining Forms Underground Communications Alliance with MST

We are extremely proud to announce that MST has been chosen by Hochschild Mining Group to be their mine communication partner in ... MORE »

Underground Communication System to Peru

Volcan Compania Minera have purchased another leaky feeder radio system from MST, this time for their Cerro de Pasco Mine in Peru. Volcan had purchased two VDV Leaky F... MORE »

DeBeers' Snap Lake Expand the use of MST's Cap Lamps

DeBeers' Snap Lake Mine in northern Canada has purchased another 200 ICCL's complete with PED pager receiver for use by its underground miners. Following the initial ... MORE »

Zinifex Rosebery Mine Install PED

Zinifex's Rosebery Mine in Tasmania, Australia, has ordered a PED System to provide emergency warning and general paging for all their underground operators. Rosebery engineers studied... MORE »

Ekati Mine Manage Fans Underground to Save Energy

BHP Billiton's Ekati diamond mine in northern Canada has implemented thirty ControlPED units to control their underground fans. The main driver was the energy savings a... MORE »

 PED System for Barrick Mine in Tanzania

Barrick is installing a PED System at their Bulyanhulu Gold Mine in Tanzania.  Engineers at Buyanhulu have been evaluating the PED and BlastPED System for some time... MORE »

Rio Tinto Choose ImPact VoIP, PED, BlastPED & ICCL

Diavik Diamond Mine, Rio Tinto’s new project in Canada has just ordered its core communication infrastructure from MST. Apart from the infrastructure... MORE »

Falconbridge Kidd Creek Mine D Install VDV Leaky Feeder

Falconbridge’s Kidd Creek mining complex are installing our VDV Leaky Feeder Radio System in their new Mine D development. The 5 channel VDV System will extend 8 ... MORE »

Rio Tinto Zinkgruvan Mine to Install PED

Rio Tinto’s Zinkgruvan Mine in Sweden have decided to install a PED System for emergency evacuation warning. The PED system will use a 2 km (1.2 mile) antenna to give full signal... MORE »

Ekati Diamond Mine Communications

BHPB's Ekati diamond mine in NW Territories in Canada is going underground to continue recovering diamonds from the rich pipe at the mine. As part of this development Ekati has identi... MORE »

Stillwater Mine Order Largest Ever BlastPED System

Stillwater Mining Company has just ordered a BlastPED System for their Platinum-Palladium Mine in Montana, USA. Stillwater identified significant productivity improvem... MORE »

Darlot Gold Mine Telemetry Project

Homestake's Darlot Gold Mine is already equipped with MST's Leaky feeder System and BlastPED System. MST is now finalising the installation of a data monitoring and control system for ... MORE »