Minera Media Luna, a 100% owned subsidiary of Canadian company Torex Gold Resources has developed its first gold mine in Mexico at its Morelos gold project. Austrian company Doppelmayr Transport Technology, a member of the Doppelmay/Garaventa group was awarded a contract to build a RopeCon system for transporting the ore from the mine down to a stockpile in early 2013.

 The aerial continuous conveying system is applied as an alternative to trucking and will transport the material at an hourly design capacity of 1,000 t through the steep and tough terrain from the crusher over a distance of 1.3 km. The RopCon system is suited to this project due to its low operational cost, with the system generating power due to the difference in height. Construction is scheduled to start for the summer of 2014 with commissioning planned for the winter of 2014/2015.