The recent Doyletech study of the mining supply & service sector provided significant data indicating that this sector has close to 500 companies in Northern Ontario who sell more than 50% of their products and services to mining companies. This is a large industrial sector within this important geographical region. Results demonstrated that this sector created over 23,000 jobs and generated over $5.6 billion in gross sales in 2008.

Via CIM Magazine
by D. Zlotnikov
In the complex, harsh world of mining, the SymBot, a new equipment monitoring platform that communicates by satellite, cellular network and Wi-Fi, is built tough and, as the name suggests, SymBot plays well with others.