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As a trusted partner of the mining industry, the Wirtgen Group offers mature and practical technologies for the mining and processing of raw materials. At Minexpo in Las Vegas (booth no. 8109, central hall), the Wirtgen Group will be presenting its field-tested 220 SM(i) 60-ton class surface miner for the first time on the North American continent (Figure 1). Wirtgen ...

On behalf of the HeidelbergCement Group, Wirtgen GmbH, Windhagen/Germany, conducted a performance test with the 220 SMi 3.8 surface miner at a chalk quarry in Couvrot/France. The goal was to increase production output compared to the current mining method using a crawler dozer while simultaneously reducing operating costs. During the demo, several tests were conducted to convince the customer that ...

Indian company uses highly productive and extremely reliable Wirtgen 220 SM 3.8 surface miner, which specializes in soft rock mining, in a coal mine in the Indian state of Odisha. India has extensive coal reserves and uses them as the country’s most important source of energy, covering about half of its primary energy needs with coal. One of the country’s largest ...

A total of 120 exhibits, including 18 world premieres and 25 innovations as well as six interactive technology demos: the Wirtgen Group’s booth at bauma (Figure 1) was packed with leading machine and application technologies from Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm, Kleemann, Benninghoven, and John Deere. The trade show in Munich clearly demonstrated that the complementary product ranges of the Wirtgen Group, ...

West African Guinea is known for possessing the largest reserves of high-quality bauxite in the world. This potential has prompted the country to continually expand its bauxite mining sector in recent years, making substantial investments. Wirtgen surface miners are playing a decisive role in this development process, as many of the country’s bauxite mining operations rely on Wirtgen’s technology as ...

PJSC Ivano-Frankivskcement (IFCEM) produces clinker and 300 other cement and gypsum products. The raw material for the cement plant comes from a deposit located 15 km to the north. The Carpathian mining area is rich in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, marl and gypsum. For years, the material was extracted by drilling and blasting and then wet-processed into clinker in ...

Mine operators for some time now have been increasingly turning to an alternative to conventional rip-and-stack or drill-and-blast coal mining: the use of surface miners. Diverse studies and tests show that surface miners offer considerable advantages in terms of both economic efficiency and the final product. The main advantages of Wirtgen surface mining technology include the following: • selective mining; ...

Two type 4200 SM Wirtgen surface miners are bringing light to South Texas and Northern Mexico. A 4200 SM is extracting sub-bituminous coal at an open cast mine owned by the North American Coal Corp. in Eagle Pass, Texas/USA – right on the border with Piedras Negas, Coahuila/Mexico (Figure 1). The extracted coal is then transported over the border by ...

The New Acland Mine (NAC), located adjacent to the township of Acland (Queensland), is part of the Australian based New Hope Group. Since opening of the mine, coal and interburden have been extracted by means of bulldozers fitted with ripper teeth and assisted by wheel loaders. However, a sharp drop in coal prices compelled the NAC management to look for ...