Regal Rexnord is showcasing an end‑to‑end conveyor drive manufacturing process, walking through complete drive assemblies from heavy‑duty gearboxes to integrated backstops and couplings. The video focuses on how matched components within a single drive package are specified and assembled for mining conveyors, aiming to reduce misalignment, premature gearbox wear and backstop failures common in multi‑vendor systems. For plant and maintenance engineers, the approach signals tighter control over torque ratings, service factors and spares standardisation across critical conveyor lines.

Artisanal and small-scale mining now involves an estimated 315 million people worldwide and supplies about 20% of global gold plus roughly 25% of both tantalum and tin, yet remains largely informal with significant social and environmental risks. Pan American Silver’s Brent Bergeron told the Resourcing Tomorrow 2025 audience that around half of the company’s sites now face artisanal activity, citing Peru where an estimated $8bn of gold leaves the country annually through opaque channels. Pan American is piloting on‑concession cooperatives, including a 98‑member group in Peru, and backs World Gold Council schemes where central banks buy artisanal gold in local currency to formalise supply chains.

SKF’s Quick Collect handheld sensor is giving mine maintenance teams without in-house vibration experts a low-barrier entry to condition monitoring by streaming live vibration and temperature data from rotating equipment. The pocket-sized device pairs via Bluetooth with a mobile app, enabling on-plant checks of pumps, conveyors and crushers and basic diagnostics without full-scale online systems. For reliability engineers, it offers a way to extend condition-based maintenance to remote assets and smaller sites where full vibration analysis capability is not justified.