A Simple Alternative for Mining

of Conveyable Material
with
Wirtgen Surface Miners

Singapore, 23rd Feb. 2012

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Transportation of raw materials out of the mine
Truck versus Conveyor

Competition of Systems
Present circumstances favour conveyors:
- Energy cost
- Personnel cost
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Conveyor transport requirements
• IPCC • SMC
– In - Surface Miner
– Pit
– Crushing

=
Production of conveyable particle size
for
conveyor transport
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Wirtgen Surface Miner

The Mining Concept

and
Application

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A Surface Miner – here’s how it works

Conveyor Drive unit with

Slewing ring counterweight diesel engine Operator‘s cabin

Slewing and
height-adjustable
discharge conveyor

Working direction

Height-adjustable Scraper blade with Mechanically driven Steered and height-

crawler track primary conveyor cutting drum adjustable crawler track

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Capabilities of Surface Miners
The following jobs are not longer required:

Cut, crush, load in one operation with one machine

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General Description
of
Conveyor System
in a given
Mining System

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General descriptions of mining and conveying system

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General description - block advance and ramp layout

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Mining Sequences

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Starting block mining

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Starting block - removal of turning area material

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Standard block mining on a continuous slope
Starting configuration

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Standard block finished - leaving a continuous slope

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Final slope partly used as a ramp

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Conveyor location after further strips finished

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 Prairie / DMS Flexiveyor
Continuous Haulage System

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Flexiveyor - Generation III

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Conceptual modelling

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Wirtgen Surface Miner

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 Operating Possibilities
of the
Surface Miner / Conveyor System

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1st Cut (max. distance 16 m)

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2nd Cut (max. distance 12 m)

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3rd Cut (distance 8 m)

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4th Cut (distance 4 m)

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 Shifting of the
Mobile Conveyor

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Shifting of mobile conveyor
1st layer, starting configuration

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min

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Shifting of mobile conveyor
1st layer, 2nd sequence

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min

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Shifting of mobile conveyor
1st layer, 3rd sequence

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min

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Shifting of mobile conveyor
1st layer, final sequence

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min
Ramp for conveyor 1:4, established by dozer
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Shifting of mobile conveyor
2nd layer, starting configuration

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min
Ramp for conveyor 1:4, established by dozer
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Shifting of mobile conveyor
2nd layer, 1st sequence

Not to scale

Cutting width 4m
Cutting depth 0,5m
Travel speed of conveyor ≥2m/min
Ramp for conveyor 1:4, established by dozer
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Conclusion

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Surface Miner owners benefit from:

 SURFACE MINER

 Simple Mining (cut, crush, load in one operation)

= Save Money (economic Mining= one machine for the entire job)
= Sized Material production (no crushing)
= Smooth Material flow

 FLEXIVEYOR
 Fast repositioning in length- and cross direction
 Loadable on the entire length

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With our customers around the world

Thank you
for your
kind
attention!

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