Dear Readers The beginning of the year was clouded by the financial and debt crisis so that it is difficult to make clear predictions for a positive...
Summary: El Mutún, one of South America’s most significant iron ore and manganese deposits, is located in south-eastern Bolivia, 27 km from the town...
On 18.11.2011, Dipl.-Ing. Hagen Müller (1978), who joined HAVER ENGINEERING Meissen in 2009, was awarded his PhD by Freiberg University of Mining and...
CDE has announced an expansion of its UK team with the appointment of Jon Collins as UK Regional Manager (Fig.). Collins joins CDE after accumulating...
Basalt AG invested into the latest engineering system for the Michelbach Quarry (Schmelz) in Germany, a MobyDick wheel washing system to provide clean...
Mogensen Raw Materials Handling has recently supplied ten items of vibratory processing equipment to Powerco (International) Ltd. of Twickenham, U.K....
The reason to compile and edit this commemorative volume (ISBN 978-3-200-02207-2, Eigenverlag, www.aufbereitung.ac.at) was the 80th anniversary of the...
The Berlin Recycling and Raw Material Conference will take place on 26th and 27th March 2012 under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal...
New insights and research findings concerning the use of recycled concrete, the current and future volume of gypsum contained in building rubble and...
EUROVIA Gestein GmbH is a subsidiary of VINCI, a French group of companies represented in around 100 countries. The company operates five quarries and...
As of 19.10.2011, the activities of Germany’s federal associations of the aggregates industry have been bundled completely under the umbrella of MIRO...
ABB recently won a 24 million $ order to supply a com- plete ore hoisting solution for Xstrata Zinc’s George Fisher Mine (GFM) located near Mount Isa...
Mineral processing machines are subjected to great strains and high levels of wear. Sections of machinery where abrasive materials come into contact...
Back in December 2010, Metso’s exclusive distributor for Switzerland, Drossard Sales & Service GmbH, caused quite a stir when the LT96 jaw crusher really took off. Contracted by Martitechnik AG, the Metso distributor transported the LT96 by cableway to its assigned operating site at an altitude of 2474 m in the Swiss Alps. In September 2011, the distributor was able to repeat this extraordinary action in Switzerland, this time taking Metso’s ST3.5 mobile screen to a height of just under 1857 m (Fig. 1). The realization of this project was preceded by meticulous planning – especially as two cableways with different capacity requirements were involved in the transport of the machine. Besides the necessary technical data such as the load centre of gravity, stability aspects and dimensions, it was important to take into consideration the weather and the necessary light as the cableway only transports loads in daylight. The new ST3.5 screen is supporting the “Linthal 2015” project. The mobile Lokotrack is involved in the expansion of the Linth-Limmern power plants, where it is helping with the preparation of the terrain for the major construction site and for the processing of aggregate (Fig. 2). This unique power plant project – a joint venture between the Swiss Canton of Glarus and Axpo AG – is aimed at increasing power generation at the Linth-Limmern hydropower plant (KKL), thus assuring the future power supply for North-Eastern and Central Switzerland. The project is to be completed within five years and will employ a total of 250 people. The total costs of the project amount to around 2.1 bill. Swiss francs. The new ST3.5 mobile screen, which Drossard Sales & Service GmbH transported by cableway, is also the first one in Switzerland. Not only the type name ST3.5 (3 stands for the number of products/double-deck screen; 5 for the screen width – corresponding to around 1500 mm)...
