INTRODUCING THE
BATTERY AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES
The first two 50-t trucks were delivered in October, with the remaining three trucks and five 18-t loaders to be delivered from mid- 2026 into 2027.
The new equipment will strengthen Lamaque’ s transition towards an electrified underground load-and-haul operation.
The investment builds on the performance of the first two Sandvik batteryelectric trucks delivered to the mine in 2023 and 2024, and advances Eldorado Gold’ s strategy to improve the site’ s environmental performance, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and optimise productivity and underground logistics.
“ The first Sandvik BEVs at Lamaque have proven their capability underground, and expanding the fleet lets us move more tonnes with less energy and heat,” Sylvain Lehoux, Vice President, Canada at Eldorado Gold Québec, said.“ We see electrification as a long-term enabler of safer, more efficient and more productive mining.”
The Sandvik TH550B and Toro LH518iB are both designed from the ground up around their battery systems and electric drivelines to be purpose-built BEVs, Sandvik says. The truck and loader both feature Sandvik’ s patented self-swapping battery system, including the AutoSwap and AutoConnect functions, improving equipment availability and safety.
Sandvik claims it offers the industry’ s fastest BEV‘ pit stop’, enabling its equipment to return to operation significantly sooner than‘ fast charge’ mining BEVs. The Sandvik TH550B and the automation-ready Toro LH518iB also feature sophisticated data collection and analysis capabilities, enabling operators and maintenance personnel to monitor and optimise equipment performance in real time.
Digitalisation and electrification convergence
As mining operations accelerate their transition toward cleaner, safer and more data-driven environments, Himesa – a century old specialist in heavy mining machinery repair and overhaul – is advancing a strategy that unifies electrification, battery innovation and robust digital monitoring.
Rooted in its long-standing service expertise, the company has evolved its capabilities to support customers moving toward modern Mining 4.0 practices, it says.
The push toward electric fleets continue to reshape underground and open-pit operations, yet Himesa emphasies that electrification alone is not enough. To realise its full value, electric equipment must be paired with reliable, mining conditioned data systems.
This guiding principle has driven the development of Pegasus Mine, now one of the company’ s most relevant technological contributions.
Many mines operate far from stable cloud access, with this lack of connectivity one of the biggest barriers to deploying telemetry or advanced analytics.
Pegasus Mine addresses this by functioning as an offline capable data platform: it gathers technical and operational information directly from machinery, stores it locally and synchronises automatically whenever a connectivity point becomes available.“ By design, it provides visibility in conditions where traditional IoT systems fail,” Himesa says.
The platform can capture engine status, temperature data, load cycles and other equipment parameters – whether the machine is on the surface, underground or in remote areas.“ Pegasus Mine supports predictive maintenance, operational and production cycle monitoring, data capture in harsh disconnected environments and the integration of sensors, cameras and safety tools for improving situational awareness,” the company says.“ This offers a practical path for mines seeking digitalisation without requiring continuous cloud coverage.”
Himesa’ s electric conversion work began with machines such as a 14-t payload LHD
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