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....
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.
The 20th UGOL ROSSII & MINING, Russia’s most important Trade Fair for Mining Technology - Exploration, Underground Mining, Open-Cast Mining, Mineral Processing and Coal Preparation, featured more...
The approvals for explosion protection has always been an explosive issue. The diversity of the topic, due to legal changes, new technologies, new research and industry associations mean that the...
