MM Oct 2008
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Bridgestone Firestone wheels out Continuum retreads
BRIDGESTONE Firestone Off Road Co (BFOR) a division of Bridgestone Firestone North American Tyre LLC (BFNT) has expanded its offering to customers with retread tyres that are manufactured using Continuum tread rubber. Full story...Sany equipment expands in Africa
MCCARTHY Heavy Equipment (MHE) is expanding its offering to the South African mining industry with plans to launch a new 70t Sany excavator and a 55t Sany rigid dump truck designed specifically for the small mining market. Full story...Terex Africa relocates
TEREX Africa the main southern African dealer for Terex Corp one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mining and construction equipment has announced that it has moved into a large new headquarters in Pomona northeast of Johannesburg. An official opening of the site was due on Thursday 9 October but the company has been in the process of relocating since April. Full story...Petaquilla GMD order for ABB
PANAMANIAN copper-mining junior Minera Petaquilla SA recently placed a US$88 million order for six gearless mill-drive (GMD) systems from power and automation-technology group ABB. The order represents the first GMD project in Panama and in wider Central America. Full story...Doosan Infracore buys Moxy
ON August 18 South Korea’s Doosan Infracore reported that DIEU its European subsidiary had signed a contract to take over Norway’s Moxy Engineering AS a specialist in the production of articulated dump trucks (ADTs) for €55 million. Full story...Rio and Atlas in auto-alliance
RIO Tinto and Atlas Copco have announced an alliance to work together to develop autonomous drilling solutions for surface mining. Rio Tinto states that it has a substantial programme in place to develop automated systems for its surface-mining operations that “create safer and more efficient operations”. Full story...RAJANT WAGNER DEAL
Portable mobile-wireless networking solutions company Rajant Corp has entered into a re-seller agreement with Denver-based Wagner Equipment Co to distribute and support its BreadCrumb wireless-mesh communications product line. Full story...Huge crawler bucket-wheel excavator goes up for sale
ONE of the world`s largest mining and earth-moving machines a Demag HD800 crawler bucket-wheel excavator is to be sold in an upcoming unreserved public auction. Ritchie Bros Auctioneers an industrial equipment auctioneer will conduct the proceedings at its Fort Worth Texas auction site on Thursday December 4 and the machine will go to the highest bidder regardless of price. Full story...Outotec signs for Miheevsky project
OUTOTEC has signed a major contract with ZAO Miheevsky GOK a subsidiary of Russian Copper Co for the design and delivery of a concentrator plant for the Miheevsky porphyry-copper project in Chelyabinsk Russia. The contract value exceeds €175 million. Russian Copper will implement the construction of the Miheevsky mine based on project financing. Full story...Siemens releases new AC-drive system
SIEMENS has announced the introduction of a new ACdrive system for heavy-haul trucks that offer payloads of at least 260 short tons. Full story...Electric excavator joins Lumwana fleet
EQUINOX Minerals has provided the latest update on its 100%-owned Lumwana copper project in Zambia`s Northwest province. Equinox has accepted the handover of the primary crushing and conveying circuit and successfully commissioned and put into production the first of four electric Hitachi EX5500-6 hydraulic excavators. Full story...Equipment
Terex debuts SK-L rig
THE Terex Reedrill SK-L rotary blasthole drill made its debut at MINExpo. The model’s 20m single-pass mast is designed for strutless 30° angle drilling and multi-pass hole depths of up to 65m. This is achieved through driller and maintenance-friendly rig design and an optimal combination of features such as pull-down and hoist forces rotation speed and rotary torque. Full story...New machines and new growth for Liebherr
THERE was a lot of new information from Liebherr not only on the new R9800 excavator covered in Mining Magazine‘s September issue but also about a new smaller excavator production plan a timeline for the new mining products facility in Colmar and updates on developments for the existing T282B and new TI 274 truck products. Full story...Cue the Komatsu 860E-1K
PREVIOUSLY exclusively mentioned in the August issue of Mining Magazine Komatsu America Corp officially announced the introduction of the new 860E-1K electric-drive haul truck at MINExpo and an example of the new model was also a flagship exhibit for the company at the show. Full story...Boart reveals 4200 surface drill
BOART Longyear’s new 4200 surface exploration drill targeted at the 1 200m NQ market was released at the show having been referenced for the first time in September’s Mining Magazine in an interview with the company’s global product manager for capital equipment Craig Mayman. The rig has a maximum torque of 6 953Nm and a hoist capacity of 9 071kg (20 000lb). Full story...Caterpillar’s new electric drive
AFTER years of monitoring industry developments Caterpillar concluded in 2004 that the time was right to develop Caterpillar electric-drive trucks. And while expected this was its most significant news at the show. After four years of development and thousands of hours of testing the new trucks – 793F AC and 795F AC – were finally unveiled the larger of which is a completely new size class for Caterpillar which will allow it to compete directly with the Komatsu 930E and Hitachi EH5000. Full story...Sandvik invests in crushing
Some of the most significant developments at Sandvik concern the company’s investment in its primary and secondary crushing business; in particular the rollout of a new sizer/double-roll crusher-based product line. Full story...P&H unveils new IPCC system
IN SURFACE products P&H Mining opted to launch its new IPCC solution at MINExpo which was first mentioned in the March issue of Mining Magazine when the system was still under development. The system has an hourly capacity of 10 000-12 000 short tons for handling overburden and will feature the Centurion control system. Full story...Bucyrus revolutionises electric rope shovels with HydraCrowd
ONE of the technological highlights debuting at MINExpo was Bucyrus’s revolutionary HydraCrowd technology for electric rope shovels. The hydraulic crowd replaces rack-and-pinion and rope crowds in electric shovels and according to Bucyrus this provides “much higher availability productivity and reliability” while extending the maintenance interval to two years. With this technological innovation Bucyrus claims that the customer’s bottom line can be boosted by up to US$120 million. Full story...New Vertimill and plant for Metso
METSO announced advances in its minerals businesses both in terms of a major new Vertimill launch but also crucially in terms of significant virgin plant capacity. Full story...Atlas Copco Pit Viper adds bite to blasting
ATLAS Copco’s most important release in terms of capital equipment was probably the new Pit Viper 235 rotary/DTH blasthole drill. The PV-235 was developed to be versatile – applicable to hard-rock metal mining and the drilling of softer coal overburden. Full story...MINExpo 2008 – an OEM launchpad
Paul Moore outlines the major equipment releases and news from the MINExpo show from the most significant haul truck launches in a decade to major processing developments Full story...INTERVIEW: Minova goes forth
Paul Moore spoke with Michael Reich the new CEO of Minova International about the firm’s current strategy recent acquisitions and its newly-announced alignment with Atlas Copco Full story...Flexco rolls out safer belt cutters
FLEXCO has added two new belt cutters to its line of safety products. The hand-held Electric Belt Cutter comes in two sizes and has been designed to allow the user to cut all types of belt quickly and safely resulting in less conveyor downtime and overall increased productivity. Full story...Better bolting with Roofex
ATLAS Copco has announced the latest addition to its range of rock reinforcements. The Roofex rock bolt which adapts to rock-mass movements while maintaining a constant load capacity has been fully launched worldwide. Full story...ITT launches SV1 slurry valve
AT THE MINExpo show ITT announced the launch of its new Fabri-Valve SV1 slurry valve. This durable low-maintenance valve controls heavy slurries and is easy to install and maintain. Unlike traditional knife-gate valves the SV1 push-through slurry valve features a gate that slices through high-density slurry at an angle. Full story...Liebherr adds safer self-propelled tools
LIEBHERR has introduced two new self-propelled maintenance tools designed to promote safety and efficiency when carrying out support work on large payload-capacity vehicles. Full story...EQUIPMENT FOCUS: SANDVIK BURLINGTON - Product evolution at Burlington
Paul Moore visited Sandvik Mining & Construction’s Burlington facility in Canada where a major refocus of both its products and approach to manufacturing has taken place over the past two years Full story...UTILITY VEHICLES: Quality, not quantity
Carly Lovejoy takes a look at the specialist market for utility equipment and support vehicles in underground mining that are often customised to individual customer needs Full story...Varel feels the D-Force
VAREL International has released a new range of high-performance roller-cone drill bits the D-Force series for open-pit mining. They have been engineered for use in highly-abrasive and broken-ground applications often found in gold copper and coal-bearing formations. Advances in the series provide higher durability and penetration rates in challenging blasthole-drilling formations. Full story...Deep cone thickening
Liam MacNamara regional sales and marketing manager minerals at FLSmidth Minerals outlines the latest developments with the Eimco Deep Cone Thickener Full story...Management in Action
Titan Tyres: A Titan Triumph
Dave Porter reports on Titan’s remarkable journey under CEO Morry Taylor to produce 63in radial tyres Full story...Mine Hoist Systems: Winding Down
Paul Moore looks at the global market for mine-hoist systems and their main mechanical and electrical aspects Full story...Marketplace
Elephant country
Russia is viewed by many as one of the few places left in the world where ‘greenfield’ gold discoveries still exist. The country’s vast untapped deposits were the subject of a recent article in Mining Journal by Dr Meg Sherval an economic and resource geographer. Full story...Site Search
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