Breaking and Feeding

The feeder breaker is traditionally used in soft-rock mining as an interface between mobile extraction or haulage equipment and the fixed conveyor system

31 August 2008
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THE main function of a feeder breaker (FB) is to reduce the product to a manageable size and to smooth the flow on to the mine’s conveyor belts.

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