If you’ve ever seen fixed plant equipment in and around a working mine or quarry, you’ll have observed the heavy gauge tools as they go about their extractive business. Ground engaging tools are kicking up dust, rugged buckets and hoppers are on the move, and you can hear crushers in the distance. Bridging these stationary […]

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Down in an industrious mining or quarrying complex, powerful feeders are conveying extracted material. They’re carrying the discharge, transporting the raw rocky stuff to a final destination. Curiously, the raw discharge can be conveyed by two feeder types, the apron feeder or a vibrating feeder. In making an intelligent choice between the two, we need […]

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There’s a whole slew of important factors to consider before the layout of a quarry or mining complex is finalised. Before a single digger or explosive charge is sent forth, feasibility studies are conducted. This initial planning stage helps the development by determining the best possible excavation method. That’s just the beginning, of course, for […]

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There are rare instances in industry where balance is not a desirable work attribute. Of those rare occasions, picture a vibrating feeder. If it were mechanically stable, its operational demeanor would be relatively ineffectual. Just for once, system discord is the goal. Unbalanced motors imbue vibrating feeders with this required amount of mechanical turmoil, a […]

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If this question was posed a few decades ago, the answer would have been no, automated machines don’t maximise production. Today, well, things have changed. Automated mining equipment is helping to ensure continuous production. What’s changed over the last twenty years? In order to answer that question, we need to look at a dynamic mining […]

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