Modern Mining August 2015

COVER STORY

Cat machines perform for SPH Kundalila

SPH Kundalila is forging ahead on its materials handling contract at Pilanesberg PlatinumMines, where 40 and 50 tonne class Cat hydraulic excavators form the back- bone of the run of mine ore crushing programme.

E ntering the Southern African earth- moving market in late 2014, the latest generation Cat 340D2 L is a key mid-range unit in Caterpillar’s large excavator line-up and de- signed for high production loading of mobile crushing and screening plants, as well as 28 tonne payload capacity trucks. One of the first contractors to deploy the Cat 340D2 L in Southern Africa is Raubex Group Limited company, SPH Kundalila (SPH), which has a proud history in the mining and allied materials handling industries that dates back to its foundation in 1969. Key SPH services encompass drilling and blasting; crushing and screening; ore load- ing and handling; haul road construction and maintenance; plus mine rehabilitation services. SPH’s new Cat 340D2 L is nowworking at one

On site at Pilanesberg PlatinumMine are (from left) Michaël Fourie, SPH Kundalila project manager, and Regardt Keller, SPH Kundalila site accountant. of the company’s Saldanha projects on the West Coast, joining an existing fleet of Cat 340D L units deployed across various SPH contracts nationally. These include SPH’s Pilanesberg PlatinumMines project in North West province, an uninterrupted ROM (run of mine) stockpile movement contract first awarded in 2009.

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