FLEETS

Pit Vipers into Sino Iron

CITIC Pacific Mining has ordered a fleet of Epiroc Pit Viper 271 XC blasthole drill rigs in a more than 300 million Swedish krone (US$26.4 million) deal, for use at its Sino Iron mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara.

 Epiroc Pit Viper 271 XC

Epiroc Pit Viper 271 XC

The rigs, which will come with a suite of automation functions, will be used to drill blastholes at the magnetite mine. The Pit Vipers will be installed with automation features such as Autodrill, which...

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