Archives: Mining maintenance

Five Sandvik D90 crawler-mounted blasthole drills have been operating for over 16 years at the Veladero gold mine in Argentina – now a JV between Barrick and Shandong Gold, in what is one of the world’s harshest environments, high up in the Andes. With more than 100,000 hours on each machine, these drills have been[…]

Whether mining limestone, bauxite or other minerals, rocks need to be broken down to a manageable size. On a mining site, options are limited by the infrastructure and environment surrounding your work area. Global surface miner major Vermeer Corp states: “There are two main options: you can drill and blast with explosives and size the[…]

JSC ORMET (Orenburg Region, part of the Russian Copper Company Group) has launched new flotation equipment. At the enrichment plant of the enterprise, two two-chamber machines of the RIVS “RIF” brand were put into operation. Modern technology has made it possible to replace four devices of the previous series at once. A total of 20[…]

The first mobile power complex for mining shovels “Peregon-1800” was recently put into operation at the Bachatsky coal mine of JSC MC Kuzbassrazrezugol (KRU, an enterprise of the UMMC raw materials complex). The complex was created by ObninskEnergoTech specialists according to the technical assignment of the Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company. The new equipment is capable of[…]

Bhubaneswar, India-based CSM Technologies has rolled out IntegratORE, which it claims to be a “first-of-its-kind integrated suite of digital mining solutions.” IntegratORE “caters to every stage of the ore’s pit-to-port journey. From ore extraction to processing, stacking, sampling, loading and its transportation to the final consumer touchpoint, this unified digital solution seamlessly tracks the movement[…]

FLSmidth was recently awarded a contract from Oyu Tolgoi LLC for a Tripper Car Optimisation Project. Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia’s largest copper and gold mining company, operates an overhead self-travelling tripper car in the ore storage building, that was initially commissioned in 2012. In December 2018, FLSmidth began supporting Oyu Tolgoi due to constant operational problems[…]

FLSmidth has been chosen to supply In-Pit Crushing & Conveying (IPCC) equipment for the upstream section of Polyus’ Blagodatnoye gold mine. The order follows October’s announcement that FLSmidth would supply a large package of process equipment for the expansion of the same mine. This new order for IPCC equipment comprises a semi-mobile crushing station with[…]

Increased demands on safety, carbon emissions, energy efficiency and productivity are driving a technology shift in the mining business. One of the leading actors in this paradigm shift is NEXGEN SIMS, an EU-sponsored consortium of 13 partners – with Epiroc at the helm – that aims to demonstrate working autonomous processes in real mining environments[…]

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has announced the opening of its second Service Centre in Peru, expanding operations in the country and further strengthening its presence in South America. The new 13,000 m² unit is located in La Joya, in the province of Arequipa, and its addition means the company now has six Service Centres on the[…]

With a symbolic groundbreaking, drive manufacturer Flender has officially started construction work on the expansion of its German site in Voerde on the Lower Rhine. A new logistics and storage hall for the assembly of large gear units for the wind and industrial businesses, including mining and minerals, is being erected on almost 8,000 square[…]