IPCC DEVELOPMENTS

In-Pit Crushing and Conveying

gathering momentum

Paul Moore spoke to the

leading IPCC players about
the ongoing interest and
research into this technology
area, as well as new orders
and existing systems

urrently the mining industry is

increasing its focus on operational
excellence and safety performance
toward zero-harm levels. Factors driving this
increased focus include the need to obtain
greater efficiencies not only to address the
rising capital costs for mining assets such as
equipment, fuel, tyres, and manpower, but
their overall operation as well, and in-pit
crushing and conveying is an important part of
this. Reduction of CO2 emissions is also a key
driver.
There has been a tendency in the mining
press in recent years to focus only on the
newest fully mobile in-pit crushing and
conveying systems from the various OEMs.
While these do represent one of the most
innovative and exciting parts of the market, it
is important to remember that other, related
areas such as semi-mobile systems, long
distance waste conveying and disposal via
spreader, and even the application of other
technologies such as bucket-wheels and
surface miners in certain situations, all deserve
attention. This is highlighted by the latest
industry order for a semi-mobile system to be
supplied by FLSmidth to PT Adaro Indonesia.
There also continue to be new variations on

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the fully mobile theme, as shown by

FLSmidths Dual Truck Mobile Sizer.
Hotspot areas currently include the bauxite
and iron ore mines in Brazil; as well as Indian
and Chinese coal and coal overburden. The
actual number of installed systems is still
relatively small, with some of the previously
delivered fully mobile systems having seen
intermittent use for various reasons. In addition
to this is the industry reluctance to be the
guinea pig for new (or newly considered)
technology. However, overall there is a feeling
among both OEMs and the mining houses,
that IPCC as a concept is gathering
momentum this is shown by the landmark
MMD order in China for Pingshuo, as well as a
number of orders bound for Brazil, which are
in the process of being built but are covered by
confidentiality agreements.
In waste mining technologies, the traditional
stripping machine in the Brazilian bauxite
mining industry is the crawler dozer, or in
some cases, small draglines. However, with
increasing overburden depths and higher
labour and fuel costs, some groups are again
thought to be looking at bucket wheel and
spreader technology, as well as excavator,
hopper and direct casting spreader designs.

One of the two Sandvik 8,000 t/h semi-mobile IPCC

plants at the Aitik mine in Sweden

The reasons for the IPCC momentum

include there being no let up on increases in
truck haulage costs, which can represent
approximately 50% of mining capital and
operating costs in large open-pit mines. That
said there is a distinction to be made between
IPCC in large flat bedded coal, iron ore and
bauxite mines and their application in large,
deep hard rock open-pit mines.
Dave Tutton, Consultant Mining Engineer
comments: Large open pit copper and gold
mines focus on maximising value by aggressive
vertical development rates that are not
conducive to semi-fixed structures such as
crushers, conveyors and conveyor crossovers.
To find greater application for IPCC, this part
of the industry will require more flexible
systems and the ability to accommodate them
within the mine plan without significantly
impacting the metal and waste schedules. This
will require innovation from both the supplier
and the mine operator.
Despite these challenges, there is definitely
renewed interest in high tonnage IPCC systems

IPCC DEVELOPMENTS

The signing ceremony between MMD Group and

China Coal

in base metals for processing waste rock.

While the majority of projects are looking at
semi-mobile systems with gyratory crushers, a
few may also be suitable for sizers. Large open
pits continue to evolve requiring reassessment
of crusher station locations highlighted by
BHP Billitons recent commitment to the
Escondida Ore Access project (EOA), the first of
a number of development options that will

underline Escondidas status as the worlds

premier copper operation. It involves a major
relocation of semi-fixed crushing and
conveying infrastructure. The EOA project will
relocate the crushing and conveying facilities
currently located inside Escondidas main pit to
improve access to higher grade ore and
thereby support higher production from 2013.
The project is expected to cost $554 million
and will be completed by mid-calendar year
2012.
In Australia, the commissioning of Sino Iron

projects four semi-mobile crushing and

conveying systems from ThyssenKrupp is
ongoing these will be the largest in-pit
gyratory crusher installations in Australia.
Mechanical installation of the first in-pit
crusher is nearing completion, while the
second crusher has been delivered to site.
Employing gyratories, each will have the
capacity to crush 4,250 t/h of magnetite and
are powered electrically by the projects
combined-cycle gas-fired power station. When
ready for relocation, the crushers will be uncoupled and moved to the new location using
crawler units.
The following summarises some of the key
developments at the major IPCC equipment
players including existing machines and new
deliveries. In addition to the OEMs, the key
consultants are playing a major role SKM
having worked with Rio Tinto on the Clermont
project, Vale at Carajas and in conjunction
with SNC-Lavalin on an expansion at the
Cerrejon mine in Colombia; AMEC is working
with CSN in Brazil on a planned expansion;
and Snowden and JT Boyd are also working on
several key projects.
Terra Nova Technologies (TNT), a wholly
owned subsidiary of AMEC, is a premier
supplier of material handling systems,
including patented mobile stacking techniques

Fully Mobile Sizer Station

Overburden
BMA Goonyella, Australia

Relocatable Systems

INNOVATION THROUGH EXPERIENCE

Bauxite
MRN, Brazil

Efficient, high capacity MMD IPCC solutions

Semi-Mobile Sizer Station

Overburden
Mae Moh, Thailand

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The Award Winning MMD LPMS

THE MMD GROUP OF COMPANIES

WWW.MMDSIZERS.COM

Overburden
Pingshuo, China

IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
that are ideal for overburden
spreading. They are a
departure from traditional
spreading methods, and
make it possible to spread
waste using self-advancing
dumps, eliminating the need
for shiftable conveyors and
ex-pit trucks. IPCC handling
of overburden, spread using
self-advancing dumps,
reduces the initial startup
time and costs for greenfield
sites.
As announced in the April
2011 issue of IM, a contract
was signed in February
between China Coal Energy
Group and MMD for the
supply of an IPCC system that
includes MMD's award winning Low Profile
Mobile Sizer (LPMS) fully mobile rig. This unit is
not only the first of the "third generation"
MMD high-capacity (>5,000 t/h) fully mobile
sizing units to go into operation but it will also
be the first MMD fully mobile unit to go into
operation in China, where the group has
already been highly successful with semimobile systems, in addition to a number of
other countries, including seven sizer stations
designed for Mae Moh in Thailand.
The new order arose from a tender issued
by China Coal for the Pingshou East open pit
mining area in Shanxi province. All of the
major manufacturers took part in the tender
and MMD admits it was far from offering the
lowest cost solution, but had the advantage of
past experience in having delivered successful
fully mobile units of this capacity before the
first being BMAs MS1 unit which went into
service at the Goonyella Riverside mine in
2001. MMD also attributes the order success
to the unique features of the LPMS sizing rig,
which incorporates a number of innovations
and unique features, the culmination of
experience gained from previous models.
While headquartered in the UK, MMD has
its own wholly-owned operations on every
continent and used its Beijing-based company
MMD China in the finalising of the deal and
negotiations, which is part of its MMD Asia
Pacific division and is run entirely by Chinese
nationals. Technical support is supplied from
UK-based specialists only when necessary. A
similar approach is being used for the
manufacture of the units on order, in that
specialist components are being imported but
the balance are being made in China where
MMD has its own manufacturing facility and a
second is in the planning stage.

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A computer generated image of the LPMS design

being delivered to Pingshuo

The MMD system on order will be used to

handle overburden, consisting primarily of
sandstones with a UCS (hardness) of up to 120
Mpa and a density of 2.7 kg/cm3. The horizons
contain several muddy layers and are expected
to get sticky in the short wet season, as the
daily precipitation can exceed 150 mm/d. The
material, produced from 15 m benches of up
to 1,540 m in length, will be loaded by a 60
m3 capacity rope shovel into the MMD LPMS
mobile sizing rig which is mounted on a
custom built MMD carrier. The material is then
transferred from the 150 m low profile
hopper by a low angle MMD D9 apron plate
feeder, fitted with an electro-mechanical
variable speed drive, capable of providing a
controlled flow of material to the MMD 1400
series mineral sizer at a rate of over 9,000 t/h.
The sizer reduces the ROM material
(maximum dimensions of 2.5 m x 2.5 m x 2 m)
to a product suitable for belt conveying (400
mm maximum) before feeding this onto a
short sacrificial belt which carries it to the rigs
integral slewing/luffing take-away conveyor.
This in turn feeds the MMD hopper car
mounted on the movable face conveyor via an
independent mobile 70 m bridge conveyor.
The face conveyor, subsequent haulage system,
stacking and spreading systems are not part of
MMDs scope of supply, but are subject to
separate tender processes.
When in full production, the MMD sizing rig
will move frequently, up to twice an hour, with
the normal advance being a distance of 5 m.
The LPMS rigs low profile, compact, balanced
design and the absence of any stabilising jacks

when coupled with its

ability to continue sizing
whilst moving will make for
a virtually seamless loading
operation possible,
according to MMD.
The MMD supplied units
have been designed to
work around the clock
which means in the normal
mining environment it will
see about 6,500/7,000 h of
service a year. The absence
of a slew ring, combined
with the inherent low
maintenance of the MMD
sizer, make it the least
maintenance intensive
element in the whole IPCC
system. This should lead to
a situation where the minimal routine
maintenance of the MMD supplied units can be
accomplished within the time-frame of the
normal planned preventative maintenance
stoppages.
MMD sees one of its main strengths in
being a relatively small company, which
patented the sizer in the first place back in
1978 with the sizer remaining at the core of
any viable modern IPCC system. The company
managed to convince the industry then of the
advantages of sizer technology and was the
first to deliver a fully mobile IPCC solution on
which it has been able to make many key
improvements based on real in-the-field use.
FLSmidth has been one of the groups at
the forefront of fully mobile IPCC systems in
recent years, with its development of the Triple
Track Mobile Sizer (TTMS). The group delivered
a major overburden removal system based on
the TTMS to Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) in
2008, as well as subsequently developing the
Dual Truck Mobile Sizer (DTMS).
The TTMS is designed for the removal of
overburden and at FMG is used to expose the
iron ore floor allowing extraction by other
mechanical mining processes. The TTMS
system derives its name from its unique
suspension undercarriage. It is triangular in
nature and thus ensures an inherently stable
three-point suspension for good stability. This
design reduces stress on the main frame
structure. FLSmidth believes that the system is
unique in the fact that it was designed to be
completely mobile and move under load. There
are no outriggers and/or feet that need to be
lowered to improve stability. The TTMS operator
simply controls the machine using a joystick to
follow the excavation path of the shovel.
The DTMS is an innovative technical solution

IPCC DEVELOPMENTS

The two hopper FLSmidth TTMS unit

at Fortescue Metals Group, Australia

that offers haul truck flexibility with complete

mobility utilising a shiftable face conveyor.
FLSmidth engineered a machine incorporating
hinged, flat hoppers. The system can be
relocated as the haul distances become too
great. When a truck backs into the skip, it will
back against the curb in the floor of the skip. It
will dump its load on the skip floor, pull slowly
ahead, lower its bed, and pull away. After the
truck clears the end of the skip, the skip can
be raised. As the skip is elevated, it begins to
pour material from the discharge of the skip
and deposits the material into the apron
feeder hopper. As material is introduced onto
the apron feeder, the apron feeder begins
conveying the material to the sizer. As the
material leaves the apron feeder, it falls into
the sizer. After being crushed, the material is
discharged onto the discharge conveyor where
it is conveyed to the bench conveyor. This
process is performed while another haul truck
is depositing material into the twin skip.
In the semi-mobile area, FLSmidth has
recently signed a contract in Jakarta worth in
excess of $135m with PT Adaro Indonesia to
supply materials handling equipment to its coal
mine in the Tanjung district of South
Kalimantan. The materials handling
equipment will be part of Adaro's
expansion of its mining operations
and will decrease the average
hauling distance of the overburden
trucking operations as well as
reduce the company's dependency
on oil. The contract comprises an
out-of-pit overburden crushing and
conveying system, consisting of
FLSmidth ABON sizers, RAHCO overland

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conveyors, and RAHCO mobile stacking

conveyors. The system has a capacity of
12,000 t/h and an annual overburden volume
of 40 Mbcm. The contractual elements
regarding construction, supervision and
management, as well as field service, will be
supplied by FLSmidth Indonesia.
This material handling contract is the first
in Indonesia and reflects a growing market in
the region, particularly in the minerals sector
where mining companies are expanding. Being
the first of its kind in Indonesia, the project will
act as a catalyst for other potential orders in
the region and for our participation in the
continued expansion of Adaro's mining
activities, which makes the contract significant
for FLSmidth, Group CEO of
FLSmidth Jrgen Huno
Rasmussen commented.
Adaro has
increased its
production every
year since 1992

The first Sandvik PF300 is expected to begin

production in Brazil in early 2012

and we are now among the top five exporters

of thermal coal in the world and all from just
one site. Overburden mining and haulage is
one of our biggest challenges. In 2010 we
hauled 226 Mbcm of overburden, and this
year we are planning to haul more than 290
Mbcm. The equipment supplied by FLSmidth
will increase the efficiency with which this
large amount of overburden is transported and
help secure Adaro's unbroken track record of
continuous growth, said Garibaldi Boy Thohir,
President Director of Adaro Energy.
The order will contribute beneficially to
FLSmidth's earnings until the end of 2012.
FLSmidths operations in Spokane, Washington
and Boise, Idaho are jointly executing the
project, with FLSmidth Spokane taking the
lead. The sizer stations themselves will be
semi-mobile and are being designed and
supplied out of Boise, as are the semi-mobile
head and tail stations.
Sandvik Mining & Construction was the
lead contractor in the delivery of a large semimobile IPCC system that has been operating
successfully at the Mae Moh mine in Thailand
since 2002. The group also installed two 8,000
t/h semi-mobile IPCC systems at the Boliden
Aitik mine in Sweden and two 10,000 t/h jaw
crusher based systems with scalping at the
Vale Carajas mine in Brazil.
Its fully mobile solution, the PF300, offers a
new stability concept according to the group.
Following the launch of the design, Sandvik's
Thomas Jabs, Global Product Line Manager
Materials Handling commented: "We see
strong signs of interest in fully-mobile crushing
concepts in all the big mining markets,
engineering houses and operating houses
worldwide. They are seeking
alternatives to truck intensive mining.
Our newly developed fully-mobile
crushing plant makes the IPCC method a
better alternative to traditional truck
haulage due to lower operating and
maintenance costs, higher energy efficiency
and reduced CO2 footprint.
This is where the fully mobile crushing
concept perfectly fits and what the
PF300 is developed for. Sandvik
improvements to IPCC help ensure
higher production and profitability,
while reducing dust, noise and
pollution".
The design allows loading of the
crusher via hydraulic or rope
shovels without any temporary
support, keeping the system fully
mobile and rock solid under all
conditions while machine
excitement is significantly reduced. This not

IPCC DEVELOPMENTS
only keeps availability at a high level,
but also improves the positioning of the
machine. The PF300 can either work in
combination with a belt wagon, mobile
transfer conveyors, or load bridges as
the connecting downstream link to the
face conveyor. According to Sandvik, the
machine can be equipped with a sizer,
double-roll crusher or hybrid-crusher, to
address the needs of multiple
applications, with coal, overburden, iron
ore and oil sands listed as the main
application areas for the machine.
To date the group has yet to deliver a
fully mobile system, but in late 2009
orders for two units were placed. One
of these was from a Brazilian customer
for a complete crushing and materialshandling system that includes a PF300
mobile unit. Fabrication of the system is
almost completed; delivery of the
components and erection will start in the
coming months and the unit is expected to be
operational in early 2012.
Sandvik is also working on the possible
installation of a semi-mobile IPCC system in
Chile at a copper-gold project.
P&H Mining Equipment offers automation
technology combined with faster, information
processing technology to improve the
efficiency of its electric mining shovels, but is
now adopting unique automation technology
to help improve operational excellence in the
material handling processes used in open pit
mining. To help increase overburden material
handling efficiency and safety, P&H Mining
Equipment has developed a range of in-pit
crushing-conveying technology options that
can be applied in fixed, semi-mobile and fully
mobile configurations.
These include a stationary system, comprised
of a sizer or feeder-breaker linked to a
conveyor system, for example, that can be
situated near a shovel tasked with loading a
small but well-utilised fleet of haul trucks,
shortening their load-dump-return circuit

One of P&H Mining Equipments offerings is the

4170C; a fully mobile, crawler-mounted mining
crusher unit that is integrated with the mining shovel
to which it is paired for efficient, synchronised
relocations

distance an arrangement that frees up other

mine assets to concentrate on moving more
valuable commodity material.
A semi-mobile tandem design is also
offered, consisting of two feeder-breakersizers, one of which continues to operate
while the other unit is re-positioned to
minimise the advance of shovel-truck loading
positions. Finally, the company can offer the
4170C, a fully mobile, crawler-mounted
mining crusher unit that is integrated with the
mining shovel to which it is paired for efficient,
synchronised relocations.
P&H Mining Equipment says that it offers
unique IPCC system advantages including an
application-optimising process that includes a
4D Visualisation system that combines a
mines 3D topography with IPCC system
application scenarios to help visualise the

Heavy duty conveyor belts

Conveyor belts that have to handle coarse crushed rock, particularly on exit from a primary
crusher, have to have enhanced impact resistance and strength compared to standard material
transport conveyors. Goodyear has just launched its ConquestXP line of heavy duty belts, which
have potential application in the IPCC market. Designed using computer modelling and FEA
analysis, ConquestXP has a new dual twill fabric weave layer offering improved load bearing and
impact resistance. Design engineers used an enhanced Dynamic Impact Tester to simulate
loading impact force and its effects on belting. The dual layer twill fabric enables high transverse
tear strength, which minimises tears that result from material punctures as well as edge tears
from misaligned belts. Dynamic and static testing also means that ConquestXP belts can provide
superior mechanical fastener retention compared with mutli-ply and straight warp constructions.

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interplay of the shovel, feederbreaker-sizer unit, conveyors and

spreaders as the overburden and
commodity mining phases
advance.
P&H further applies total cost of
ownership or TCO analysis to
provide insights into cost flows and
cost structure scenarios, factoring in
life-of-mine horizons and annual
tonnage requirements as the IPCC
system options are applied yearover-year.
Using such powerful analytical
tools, mine management can obtain
useful comparisons to help identify
IPCC configurations from shovel to
spreader that point toward optimal
material throughput for reduced
operating cost.
P&H IPCC systems also include a
powerful Centurion supervisor control and
data acquisition or SCADA system that
monitors all of the systems on the shovel as
well as the IPCC to which it is tasked.
Important advantages of that SCADA include
optimisation of the shovel and the IPCC system
as they interact, plus synchronisation of the
shovel and IPCC maintenance schedules to
help the mine obtain unmatched IPCC
system availability.
P&H shovel-IPCC systems are supported by a
global network of P&H MinePro Services teams
that provide a full range of life cycle
management coverage including logistics, 24/7
emergency response, remote health
monitoring and reliability-centred maintenance,
plus performance-enhancing upgrades that
help increase reliability and productivity.
ThyssenKrupp Frdertechnik is one of the
groups that has played a major role in the
development of cost-efficient in-pit crushing
systems and given its history of installations
dating back many years, is one of the most
experienced and successful manufacturers of
fixed and semi-mobile crushing systems, which
has also helped the company make the move
into the fully mobile arena. The first major
milestone in open pit mine equipment
development of this kind for the Mining
Business Unit of ThyssenKrupp was the worlds
first fully mobile crushing system of a new
design, delivered to the YiminHe coal mine in
China in 2007. The crushing plant processes
ROM coal at a rate of 3,000 t/h. This
successful operation at YiminHe led to a
further order for four fully mobile crushing
systems which are currently under
construction for the Baiyinhua coal field in
China. Three of the four systems will be used

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Fully mobile ThyssenKrupp crushing plant design with

conveyor bridge in multiple bench operation

to remove overburden, each having a nominal

capacity of 6,000 t/h. One 3,000 t/h system
will be used for coal processing.
In 2010 ThyssenKrupp then received an
order for two fully mobile crushing systems for
overburden handling in an iron ore open pit
mine in Brazil. Each crushing plant is equipped
with a double-roll crusher and operates in the
mine together with a shovel crushing
overburden at a rate of up to 3,900 t/h. A

particular challenge here was the planning and

realisation of such a system for a mine type
which typically extend downwards with fairly
steep pit walls, in comparison to coal mines,
which typically have relatively wide benches.
Ongoing research and development,
including the realisation of higher capacity
ranges or considering different types of mining
operations is are carried out by
ThyssenKrupp with the aim of optimising fully
mobile crushing and conveying systems
according to customer requirements.
In 1995 Takraf started a new chapter in its

production history. That involved the planning,

calculation, design, production and assembly
of primary sizer rigs (stations), which are
designed as stationary and semi-mobile units,
including the associated equipment. Takraf
states that is has "successfully positioned itself
as a worldwide supplier specialising in
equipment that comminutes, conveys and
discharges waste in consolidated bedrock
mines." The company now has 19 large-scale
sizer rigs that have been commissioned with
designed throughput rates of 2,500-12,000
t/h.
Following on from this came the
development of mobile sizer rigs - specifically
the fully mobile BRF-W2-12000. This rig is
currently deployed in Queensland, Australia at
the Clermont mine operated by Rio Tinto Coal
Australia and is designed to size hard
overburden with a hardness up to 175 MPa.
The rig was developed and designed in a
record time of only six months and has been in
use since July of 2009. The group states that it
is also already working on even more
effective solutions relating to continuous
mining technologies used in bedrock.
The Clermont sizer rig operates in
conjunction with a conveyor system, a tripper
car and an overburden spreader. It has a
design throughput of 12,000 t/h and weighs

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The Takraf machine at Clermont has a design capacity
of 12,000 t/h

approximately 1,500 t, making it one of the

largest mobile sizer rigs currently operating in
the world.
Materials can be comminuted, transported
and dumped continuously thanks to the
mobility of the entire complex system. As a
result of that, it is possible to achieve
considerably higher outputs compared with
discontinuously operating technologies.
Another advantage of the complex system is
that it can be controlled centrally by only one
system operator, whose station is located on
the overburden spreader. With the aid of a
special monitoring system all necessary data
are made available to the system operator and
ensure a reliable operation of the entire
system.
Due to the machine's scope of work and
taking into consideration stability under all
operating load conditions and special load
cases as well as the operating weight, Takraf
implemented a so-called triple crawler
undercarriage with six individual crawler tracks
arranged in pairs for this sizer rig. The
supporting forces are distributed to each pair
of crawler tracks statically via three support
points on the substructure. A change in the
sizer rig's direction of travel is implemented by
aligned swivelling of the two pivotable control
crawler tracks at two of the support points
using the tiller claws.
All individual crawler tracks are mounted
such that they can float independent of one
another to accommodate the uneven terrain.
Each individual crawler track is driven by
means of electric motors for advancing the
sizer rig.
ThyssenKrupp fully mobile crushing plant design with
conveyor bridge for single bench operation

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The superstructure is mounted on the

undercarriage such that it can swivel by means
of a geared ball bearing and is used for
accommodating and supporting the apron
feeder, the sizer discharge conveyor and the
boom conveyor, which is equipped with its
own hoisting mechanism and slewing
mechanism. Thanks to the slewability of the
superstructure and the separate adjustability of
the boom conveyor, it is possible to achieve a
very high positioning accuracy of the material
feed and/or material transfer.
The twin shaft sizer is positioned centrally
on the superstructure. To minimise any repair
related downtime, a solution was found that
allows for moving the twin shaft sizer
including drive systems over its entire length in
a longitudinal direction to the optimum service
position where there is sufficient work space.
Moreover, there is also a possibility for sideto-side movement for removing the lateral
drive systems. The material is supplied by a
rope shovel of the type P&H 4100XPC with the

aid of a feed hopper to the apron feeder. The

maximum feed volume is about 56 m, which
corresponds to a weight of about 110 t. The
capacity of the hopper is designed at 170 m.
This capacity guarantees a continuous supply
of material to the twin shaft sizer while taking
the loading cycle of the rope shovel into
account. Level sensors monitor the height of
the material on the apron feeder and regulate
the transport speed.
The apron feeder is supported in a
"statically determined" manner in every
operating mode. During excavation, the apron
feeder generally rests on the subgrade by way
of a pontoon. This solution offers the
advantage that all loads caused by the material
feed are distributed directly to the subgrade.
During transport the apron feeder can be
raised and lowered using the hydraulic
cylinders arranged on both sides. The material
(maximum ROM size 2.05 m x 2 m x 1.5 m) is
supplied by the apron feeder to the twin shaft
sizer by way of a feed hopper. The crushed
product material is specified to have maximum
dimensions of 450 mm x 350 mm x 350 mm
for transport via the conveyor systems. A
discharge belt that is arranged below the twin
shaft sizer transports the comminuted material
to the belt of the boom conveyor by means of
a slewable central hopper. IM
This entire subject from fixed to semi-mobile
and fully mobile IPCC as well as related
technologies will be covered at IMs
forthcoming IPCC event in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil from 21-23 September, 2011. Speakers
have already been confirmed from SKM,
Snowden, FLSmidth, Sandvik and others. For
more information contact the IM Editor, Paul
Moore at paul@im-mining.com