When screening loose, bulk materials, and especially when handling abrasives products such as stone, gravel or crushed stone, screen decks are subjected to extreme loads. This leads to more frequent...
The strong export orientation of Stahlwerke Bochum GmbH (SWB), specialized in highly wear-resistant tools and components for scrap recycling, crushing and mineral processing, is now as well reflected...
The ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group, Northeim, is strengthening its conveyor belts business for industrial applications with the acquisition of Metso’s industrial conveyor belt operations based in...
In Northern Canada, Syncrude, a subsidiary of Exxon, is working a surface oil sand mine. At this mine, 38 very large Liebherr dumpers are used and a huge fleet of off-road vehicles travel around the...
1 Introduction
In recent months, the clouds have been darkening over the mining industry. The reason is the falling prices for raw materials since the beginning of 2012, which is down to a lower...
ForumMIRO is the name of the leading event of the German rock industry. It is organized at various locations in Germany. This year Aachen was selected as the venue, where it will take place from 6. to...
The mine operator Hellenic Copper Mines (HMC) in Nicosia/Cyprus is one of the large opencast copper ore mines (Fig. 1). The hydrometallurgical extraction at Skouriotissa in the western part of the...
Codelco, Chile’s state owned mining giant, awarded the contract for a large scale conveyor system for their El Teniente mine expansion to TAKRAF (Fig. 1). The system connects a new ore body to the...
In the Wundschuh gravel pit near Graz, Austria, a SENNEBOGEN 6130 HD is working in dragline bucket operation. At an extraction depth of 13 m the task at hand is penetrating particularly hard...
An upgrade of the existing washing plant at the Drapers-
town Quarry operated by Creagh Concrete has released 4 million tonnes of material and extended the life of the quarry by 10 years....
