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Bauxite
MRN, Brazil
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Overburden
Pingshuo, China
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that are ideal for overburden
spreading. They are a
departure from traditional
spreading methods, and
make it possible to spread
waste using self-advancing
dumps, eliminating the need
for shiftable conveyors and
ex-pit trucks. IPCC handling
of overburden, spread using
self-advancing dumps,
reduces the initial startup
time and costs for greenfield
sites.
As announced in the April
2011 issue of IM, a contract
was signed in February
between China Coal Energy
Group and MMD for the
supply of an IPCC system that
includes MMD's award winning Low Profile
Mobile Sizer (LPMS) fully mobile rig. This unit is
not only the first of the "third generation"
MMD high-capacity (>5,000 t/h) fully mobile
sizing units to go into operation but it will also
be the first MMD fully mobile unit to go into
operation in China, where the group has
already been highly successful with semimobile systems, in addition to a number of
other countries, including seven sizer stations
designed for Mae Moh in Thailand.
The new order arose from a tender issued
by China Coal for the Pingshou East open pit
mining area in Shanxi province. All of the
major manufacturers took part in the tender
and MMD admits it was far from offering the
lowest cost solution, but had the advantage of
past experience in having delivered successful
fully mobile units of this capacity before the
first being BMAs MS1 unit which went into
service at the Goonyella Riverside mine in
2001. MMD also attributes the order success
to the unique features of the LPMS sizing rig,
which incorporates a number of innovations
and unique features, the culmination of
experience gained from previous models.
While headquartered in the UK, MMD has
its own wholly-owned operations on every
continent and used its Beijing-based company
MMD China in the finalising of the deal and
negotiations, which is part of its MMD Asia
Pacific division and is run entirely by Chinese
nationals. Technical support is supplied from
UK-based specialists only when necessary. A
similar approach is being used for the
manufacture of the units on order, in that
specialist components are being imported but
the balance are being made in China where
MMD has its own manufacturing facility and a
second is in the planning stage.
IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
only keeps availability at a high level,
but also improves the positioning of the
machine. The PF300 can either work in
combination with a belt wagon, mobile
transfer conveyors, or load bridges as
the connecting downstream link to the
face conveyor. According to Sandvik, the
machine can be equipped with a sizer,
double-roll crusher or hybrid-crusher, to
address the needs of multiple
applications, with coal, overburden, iron
ore and oil sands listed as the main
application areas for the machine.
To date the group has yet to deliver a
fully mobile system, but in late 2009
orders for two units were placed. One
of these was from a Brazilian customer
for a complete crushing and materialshandling system that includes a PF300
mobile unit. Fabrication of the system is
almost completed; delivery of the
components and erection will start in the
coming months and the unit is expected to be
operational in early 2012.
Sandvik is also working on the possible
installation of a semi-mobile IPCC system in
Chile at a copper-gold project.
P&H Mining Equipment offers automation
technology combined with faster, information
processing technology to improve the
efficiency of its electric mining shovels, but is
now adopting unique automation technology
to help improve operational excellence in the
material handling processes used in open pit
mining. To help increase overburden material
handling efficiency and safety, P&H Mining
Equipment has developed a range of in-pit
crushing-conveying technology options that
can be applied in fixed, semi-mobile and fully
mobile configurations.
These include a stationary system, comprised
of a sizer or feeder-breaker linked to a
conveyor system, for example, that can be
situated near a shovel tasked with loading a
small but well-utilised fleet of haul trucks,
shortening their load-dump-return circuit
IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
The Takraf machine at Clermont has a design capacity
of 12,000 t/h