April 12, 2016
Engineers turn to every conceivable form of transportation when designing mobile mining equipment. The equipment, with a few notable exceptions, must function as well as its contemporary stationary cousin but must do so while navigating tough terrain. Big-wheeled roadsters with reinforced suspension frames dot this landscape, but there are also examples of large mining contrivances […]
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March 29, 2016
It sometimes feels like everything inside a mine is on the move. Rocks are sliding down walls and sweat is sliding down brows. Down among the machines, conveyors and screening decks are vibrating, which is okay as engineering plastics and rubbers offset the vibrations. They cancel the accelerated wear and tear associated with the blurring […]
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March 15, 2016
A tough-as-nails approach snaps into action when mining and quarry equipment is procured, for the ground is soft and gritty on the surface but deceptively hard beneath. Infamous for its ability to blunt drill bits and corrode unrefined iron, the ground geology is a rock-solid mass laced with equipment-corroding water. Mud rules here, and it’s […]
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February 29, 2016
It’s estimated that roughly a quarter of all mining fatalities are caused by heavy machinery, the mining equipment workers use to extract minerals and ore from hard rocks. This is a dangerous occupation, one that doesn’t need complications from poorly maintained gear. The tools of the trade, heavy equipment and all, must be responsibly repaired and conscientiously […]
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February 11, 2016
The concept of drilling a hole in the ground to reach hidden mineral reserves has been crisscrossing the globe since before recorded history but has always relied firmly on fixed assets. Mobile mining equipment, on the other hand, performs with the same dynamic and gritty action as its fixed contemporaries, but a single self-propelled mobile […]
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