Archives: Equipment maintenance

A 60 t BELAZ mining truck equipped with an engine compliant with Stage V European emissions regulations has been tested in Poland. In February, Polmark Kielce, the official representative of BELAZ in the country, together with experts from Volvo Penta in Sweden in close cooperation with ERS Engineering Corp (USA) and Western Technologies (service dealer[…]

Flowrox has come up with a new design for big slurry knife gate valves that, it says, eliminates the need for a cylinder tower and repositions two actuator cylinders to each side of the valve. Knife gate valves are often found in mineral processing plants, tailings and slurry transport, as well as leaching operations. The[…]

Brisbane, Australia-based Components Only has charged Jeffery Chua with expanding the company’s heavy equipment components operations in his new role as Commercial Manager. With experience in corporate finance and commercial management, Chua is well placed to help the company continue its growth and expansion plans, according to Components Only. Chua believes his experience will prove[…]

Metalloinvest has begun replacing the magnetic separators at iron ore mining complex Mikhailovsky GOK’s beneficiation plant, as part of the company’s large-scale modernisation and technical re-equipping programme to increase the plant’s production volumes. Replacing single-drum magnetic separators with more modern and productive ones will increase iron ore concentrate production by 10,200 t per year. The[…]

Mincor Resources has awarded underground mining services and equipment hire group Pit N Portal with the underground mining contract for its 100%-owned Kambalda nickel operations in Western Australia. The contract encompasses a five-year pact for the new Cassini nickel mine, where early surface works were recently completed, and a three-year contract (plus one two-year option)[…]

South Africa-based Integrated Pump Rental has recently come to the rescue of a coal mine in KwaZulu-Natal, providing fit-for-purpose dewatering equipment to prevent flooding in the open pit. The unexpected failure of one of the mine’s own pumps came at a bad time. The national COVID-19 lockdown meant it would be some time before pump[…]

Worldsensing’s Loadsensing digital nodes are set for a boost following a new firmware release from the Barcelona-based technology provider. The new release is part of Worldsensing’s growing partnership with the geotechnical instrumentation manufacturer Sisgeo, the company said, with Sisgeo customers now able to enjoy automated readings when using Sisgeo’s version 3 digital protocol sensors in[…]

In preparation for the completion of the partial demerger of Metso Corporation, the management of the future Neles Corporation has defined its stand-alone ‘Strategy for profitable growth’ and mid-term financial targets with the support of the proposed Board of Directors of the future Neles. Neles Corporation will be created upon the completion of the transaction,[…]

Weir Group division ESCO® says it recently fitted a set of fabricated hinge necks as part of a hydraulic face shovel bucket repair for an iron ore mine in Africa. The ESCO hinge necks ran for 5,000 hours in hard abrasive conditions. Operating in the same conditions, the OEM cast hinge necks reached end of[…]

Superior Industries has added KeepMining™ to its long list of distribution partners, with the Singapore-based company to represent Superior’s growing line of crushing, screening, washing and conveying equipment in several countries throughout Southeast Asia. The pact will see KeepMining hold the distributor mantle in countries including India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea,[…]