bauma 2025

Overview of the highlights at bauma 2025

Issue 10/2013

Mining is alive!

4th International Colloquium on Non-Blasting Rock Extraction

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”...

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Issue 10/2013

Cleaning dumper trucks at an oil sand mine

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...

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Issue 10/2013

Gravel extraction with the SENNEBOGEN 6130 HD

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...

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Issue 10/2013

Surplus with a wash plant upgrade

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....

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Issue 10/2013

Challenge for pumps

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...

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Issue 10/2013

Innovative design

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...

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Issue 10/2013

Reliable material assessment

Computer-aided modelling of the wear behaviour of heavy plate made from high-strength structural steels

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.

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Issue 10/2013

Strategies

Resource planning of the global players

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...

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Issue 10/2013

Terex expands its CR Series

Terex Minerals Processing Systems (Terex MPS) has expanded its CR Series portable plant line with the addition of the Terex® CRH1316 horizontal shaft impact crushing plant (Fig.). This large...

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Issue 10/2013

TY-WIRE Hybrid Screens

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...

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