Balanced-skip haulage systems are one of the mining industry’s most mature technologies. Now thyssenkrupp offers the advantages of rope running incline skips to open pits and quarries where haul truck operating costs are reducing profitability. The capital and operating economics of that system are very compelling, with dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions. ...
Siemens has opened its “Cyber Security Operation Center” (CSOC) for the protection of industrial facilities, with a joint location in Lisbon and Munich and one in Milford (Ohio) in the USA....
Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden, is home to an iron ore mine of the same name, which processes and stores pellets. These iron ore pellets are transported from Sweden to Norway for shipping. In 1902, a train line was built all the way to Narvik for this purpose. ...
Since August 2015, a Bell B25E has been operating as a versatile production machine in the production chain of Knüllwalder Tagebau GmbH, an open-cast mine in North Hesse. ...
This year’s seminar was held on 28 and 29 January under the motto “Advances in the processing of primary and secondary resources – machinery, processes, products”. In 18 presentations, plant engineering companies, users and representatives of universities presented new equipment, revamps and extensions as well as current research findings. ...
Ore crushing processes have not changed very much in recent years. Nevertheless; there have been significant modifications to the machine technology and to the systems. In this article, the most important topics are discussed and the current trends are presented. ...
On October 7th, 2015, the inauguration celebration of the pilot plant for a dry iron ore concentration process, developed by company New Steel of Brazil, has taken place in Ouro Preto, Minais...
The Thomas Hagedorn Group has extended its equipment fleet by two mobile impact crushers, and for the first time places its trust in products from Kleemann using the MOBIREX MR 130 Z EVO 2 (Fig.). In...
The ongoing high level of demand from companies wishing to exhibit at IFAT 2016 is impressive confirmation of the high status of the sector’s No. 1 global innovations platform and trade fair for...
Whether a shovel excavator or backhoe excavator is used to extract material depends essentially on the prevailing geology and extraction technology. At the diabase quarry of Reichenbrecher & Rentsch,...
