Abstract
Hecla Mining Company’s Greens Creek mine is an underground, cut-and-fill, long-hole-stoping, silver mine located in Admiralty, Alaska, USA.
Greens Creek chose MST Global as their digital transformation partner in 2012 and has been working with them to increase safety; improve productivity and efficiency; and reduce costs by enabling applications for over 8 years.
This paper will provide real life examples of how Hecla and MST have worked together to reduce heavy vehicle to light vehicle interactions underground with MST’s situational awareness solution; increase safety and productivity with MST’s equipment and personnel location tracking solutions; reduce costs with MST’s Ventilation on Demand solution; and how they have enabled numerous 3rd party applications like remote blasting; and the automation of their Sandvik loader fleet via AutoMine over a single, ruggedized, fibre-based, high-bandwidth, low-latency, Wi-Fi network.
It will also give a sneak peek of MST’s next generation AXON and HELIX Platforms to show how Mine Operators can future proof their mines and reduce the total cost of ownership with an integrated, modular, next-generation communication, tracking and automation platform.
Biography of the presenter
TODD SMITH – MST GLOBAL
Todd Smith is MST Global’s Senior Business Development Manager for Canada and has been evangelizing Digital Transformation, Automation and the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Canadian Mining Industry for over 10 years.
Todd works closely with Maintenance, Mine and Electrical Engineers, Senior Management and Operations Personnel at mines across Canada to help them increase safety, improve productivity and efficiency and reduce costs.
With installations in over 320 mines and over 30 years of experience and more digital networks installed in mines than any other vendor, MST is the Global Leader in Mining Communications. They pioneered highly scalable, innovative, purpose-built Wi-Fi communications with the first installation being done in Canada in 2004. MST is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and designs, manufactures, develops and supports critical technologies for communications, automation, production optimization, underground asset, vehicle and personnel tracking, proximity detection and safety in hazardous mining environments.
Todd holds a degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and has spent over 20 years working in the technology industry with IBM Canada Ltd., several Waterloo technology companies and Eastman Chemical Company.
