Mobile Plant Equipment

Haulage trucking comprises between 50%, and higher amounts of the total costs incurred during surface mining. Haul road infrastructure is ...Read more

Mineral excavation is one of the processes which requires the minimization of material handling cost. Cost-per-tonne evaluation of loading equipment ...Read more

Drilling operations optimization is associated with a compromise between the maximal penetration rate and equipment safety. The problem of drilling ...Read more

Structural fatigue cracks are an accumulative mode of failure which takes place in materials under cyclic stresses, starting from microscopic ...Read more

The Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) is an automated system in which trucks are controlled through computerized processes in which these ...Read more

Engine derating refers to the method used by the engine control unit of the truck that reduces the output when ...Read more

A “geotechnical analysis” of haul roads in a mining site is defined as the comprehensive analysis of the subgrade and ...Read more

Condition monitoring is a form of predictive maintenance where equipment’s health status is consistently evaluated to identify any signs of ...Read more

The Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) equipment consists of a center-articulating vehicle with a bucket at its front end and is used exclusively ...Read more

In an open pit mine setting, there will be much use of ultra-class trucks that employ off-the-road tyres. A tyre ...Read more