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DIGITALISATION
John Chadwick recently visited Sandvik’s test
mine in Tampere, Finland and reports back on its
latest developments in digitalisation and
automation
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MINING TRUCKS
From multiple new offerings in the 100 ton class
to new trolley activity, eDumper progress and
ultraclass options, it is a busy time in the
surface truck mining market, reports Paul Moore
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MINING CHEMICALS
Paul Moore reports on a new update to the
Cyanide Code, and gets commentary from
leading players on bulk and speciality mining
chemicals markets. The big news is rising
demand and prices due to increasing
environmental regulation for producers in China
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32 PRECONCENTRATION
John Chadwick examines the latest in gravity
techniques, ore sorting and magnetic separation
to raise separation efficiency and reduce
concentration costs
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FLEET MANAGEMENT
There are many aspects to fleet management
systems and as operations get more complex, they
are increasingly about much more than simple
truck fleet optimisation, reports Paul Moore
47 VALUE FROM OLD MINES
John Chadwick considers one of the world’s
largest gold-from-tailings recovery operations
and some of the technologies available
50 HIGH PROFILE – MASTER DRILLING
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Paul Moore spoke to Koos Jordaan, Master
Drilling Executive Director, about its state of the
art and modular Mobile Tunnel Boring (MTB)
solution, which offers an efficient, cost effective
and flexible alternative to existing mining and
tunnelling methods
COVER: BELAZ
This month’s cover shows a BELAZ 7560 series electric drive truck at a Russian coal
operation in Siberia. This highly successful truck range includes the 320 t 75600 and
MINING
TRUCKS
360 t 75601 and 75603 models. These trucks employ a Siemens AC drive. This year, the
VALUE
FR
OLD MIN OM
ES
BELAZ 75320 powered by a General Electric AC drive system with a 290 t payload is
FLEET
MANAG
EMENT
MINING
also entering the market. In smaller models, BELAZ is now applying the Russian-
CHEMIC
ALS
made AC drive from Ruselprom on its 220 t and 136 t trucks. Use of AC drive
technology significantly reduces the costs and time for maintenance by reducing the
number of moving parts, which not only improves the reliability of the transmission
PRECON
control system, but also improves the performance of the truck by more optimal
CENTRA
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and rapid switching of the operating modes of the truck. www.belaz.by
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