Maestro Digital Mine has launched its PoE-enabled SuperBrite Marquee Display for underground mines, using a single Ethernet cable via the Plexus network to deliver both electrical power and real-time data to headings and working faces. The LED display is designed for high-visibility production, ventilation and safety messaging in low-light, high-dust drifts where conventional power distribution is costly and complex. For engineers, PoE removes the need for separate 110/230 V feeds and local transformers, simplifying installation, certification and maintenance of digital signage underground.

SGS’s Lakefield Metallurgical Centre of Excellence will mark its 85th anniversary in 2026, as the Canadian mining sector faces what the company calls a critical inflection point. The Lakefield facility, long used for complex metallurgical testwork on gold, base metals and critical minerals, is being profiled alongside the PDAC 2026 conference in Toronto. SGS experts are expected to focus on flowsheet development, pilot-scale processing and ore characterisation services that de-risk new projects and brownfield expansions in Canada and abroad.

Codelco and Rio Tinto have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference to create a strategic framework for joint development of major mining investment projects in Chile. The collaboration is aimed at improving project development and execution performance, drawing on both companies’ experience with large-scale copper operations and complex brownfield expansions. For engineers, the move signals potential alignment on project delivery models, risk-sharing structures and technical standards across future Chilean underground and open-pit developments.