Modern Mining May 2022

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were able to move their main tenance window from six to 12 weeks. The main driver of the 12 week maintenance window to date is no longer the transfer chutes, but other apparatus in the plant,” says Baller. In conclusion, Baller says the worst thing for any mine is to endure unplanned stoppages due to chute or any other com ponent failures in a plant. “Unplanned downtime rep resents direct production losses and ultimately loss of revenue for the mine. Depending on the size of the mine and the com modity, unplanned production losses can run from hundreds of thousands to millions of US dollars per hour,” concludes Baller. 

weeks. We engineered a fitting solution for their challenging ore, which was sticky when wet, and we

Weba screen oversize and screen undersize chutes installed at an iron ore mine in South Africa.

Material being conveyed between two custom engineered Weba transfer points.

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