Material Handling
- The mode of mine access (e.g. surface mining, underground mining, vertical shaft, inclined drift, in-seam access via outcrop, etc) determines the nature of transport systems used to transport personnel and materials into the mine (trucks, wagon, shaft hoisting, drift haulage or rubber tyred vehicle access, ).
The large majority of mines today use diesel powered, rubber tyred vehicles to transport both personnel and materials within the mine, largely because of the flexibility of that system,
- Equipment selection involves choosing trucks and loaders to operate the materials handling process. There are three primary considerations: Productivity: We must be able to produce enough ore to satisfy requirements. Cost: We want to keep purchasing and operating costs as low as possible. Compatibility: The trucks and loaders must be able to work together. Not all trucks and loaders are compatible
Scraper machines are used to remove layers of earth across a vast area of land. When the scraper m
- In the open-pit mines, in order to improve productivity, they used to large numbers of heavy equipment. Due to the huge investments involved, no mine can afford to have invested then its equipment inefficient work, increased the idle time of equipment. Therefore, in during the selection process of equipment, consideration must be given to the proper matching of equipmen
A dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. Draglines fall into two broad
- A mine railway , sometimes pit railway, is a railway constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of a mine.[1] Materials transported typically include ore, variously spoils, waste, slack, culm, and tilings; all meaning waste rock.
It is little remembered, but the mix of heavy and bulky materials which had to be hauled into and out of mines gave rise to the first several generations of railways, at first made of wood rails, but eventually adding protective iron, steam locomotion by fi