FLEETS

Tackling dragline maintenance head on

Ryan Sharp and Arnold Williams at BMT WBM consider current dragline maintenance challenges and highlight how some recent technological innovations can help optimise and, in some cases, reduce maintenance and inspection workloads

Ryan Sharp & Arnold Williams
A Cat 8750 dragline

A Cat 8750 dragline

Over the past few years, the mining industry has had to deal with difficult times. Reduction in demand for raw materials caused by the global economic slowdown led to coal and iron-ore prices falling to...

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A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the mining sector, brought to you by the Mining Magazine Intelligence team.

A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the mining sector, brought to you by the Mining Magazine Intelligence team.

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