bauma 2025

After two events held under the name of IFAT ENT­-   SORGA, the leading trade fair for environmental technologies, taking place from 05.-09.05.2014 in Munich, is returning to its original name of...

Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie AG (MHI) is again to provide suitable space at Europe‘s largest basalt quarry at Homberg/Nieder-Ofleiden for the steinexpo 2014 industrial fair. In parallel to...

Around 130 highly specialized professionals followed the invitation of the Institute of Mining at TU Bergakademie Freiberg to the 4th International Colloquium on “Non-Blasting Rock Extraction”...

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...

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....

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 industrial machinery and equipment subject to wear, heavy plate is used to provide high resistance against the wear. ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG supplies a wide range of wear-resistant XAR steels as heavy plate in thicknesses up to 100 mm. Typical ­applications are equipment for the extraction and processing of resources such as coal, ore, rock, etc.

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...