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Environment, Health and Safety
Sandvik underground trucks are tough and reliable trucks built for heavy-duty working conditions. The latest trucks boast improved safety, productivity and reliability features.
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Check out high-powered cutting — filmed from a rock’s perspective. The 250-tonne, 1550-kW Sandvik Borer Miner MF420 slices through a block of ice at Sandvik’s competence center in Zeltweg, Austria.
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Loading and hauling
Sandvik electric LHDs offer many competitive advantages over their diesel counterparts without sacrificing productivity. Electric LHDs create a better working environment with no underground emissions, fewer vibrations and less noise.
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Exploration
Sandvik Mining serves a broad range of customers in exploration, mining and bulk materials handling. Our mining products and services support customers on the surface and under ground, in all mineral, coal and metal mining applications from exploration to ore transportation.
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Crushing and screening
Österbybruk, Sweden. Almost 20 years after it was closed in 1992, the reopened Dannemora mine in Sweden has just secured its first long-term contract for iron ore. But getting an old mine back in business again has its challenges.
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Rock tools and systems / Surface drilling
Queensland, Australia When ROCK Australia won the drill and blast contract at the Lady Annie copper mine near Mount Isa, it faced a daunting double challenge from the outset: to get up and running at short notice, and to quickly meet ambitious production targets.
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Crushing and screening
Ordos, Inner Mongoli,a China. Shenhua Energy, the world’s largest integrated coal and power company, is leading the way by developing new technology and boosting productivity.
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Crushing and screening
Mining companies are demanding higher performance and durability from their cone crushers in order to improve their crushing operations. By dedicating the design for the Sandvik CH890 and CH895 to secondary and tertiary crushing applications, Sandvik is meeting these demands.
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Loading and hauling
LHD loader line – safe and reliable Merging two product lines resulted in the best of two worlds. Meet the new streamlined LHD loaders from Sandvik.
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Underground drilling
The Sandvik DB120 drill rig. Splitting oversized boulders in an underground mine can be dangerous and can slow down production. A new drill rig with remote control and a hydraulic splitter makes secondary breaking safer and faster.
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CENTRAL WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Byrnecut Australia keeps the dirt moving at Northern Star Resources’ Jundee gold mine, ...
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Velardeña, Mexico: Among arid, sparsely populated hills sits Mexico’s most productive zinc mine. Every day,...
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CRESCENT VALLEY, NEVADA. At Barrick Gold’s iconic Cortez mine, one of the world’s largest roadheaders is steadily ...
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BERNBURG, GERMANY. Salt production here dates back to the Middle Ages, when brine was evaporated from open pans. T...
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The mining industry job market is currently a mixed and somewhat puzzling picture. The energy sector is hir...
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Even as markets recover, the mining and aggregate industries are hard pressed after several years of sinking and v...
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Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland. From the dark depths of the Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie coal mine in Poland, 21,7...
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Sandvik Mininghas introduced a new rod range to the market that is proving to be a lot tougher than its pre...
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ONTARIO, CANADA. Goldcorp is developing the world’s first all-electric underground mine, an ambitious projec...
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Orefields,a newly formed raise boring contractor inside the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, is building o...
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Since the introduction of the Sandvik MC350 continuous miner, the Haldibari coal mine has experienced increased pr...
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After almost a decade as the leaders in battery-electric underground drilling, Sandvik has introduced a new batter...
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By creating business opportunities for local entrepreneurs, the Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions carbide recyclin...
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Top hammer rock tools – same old, nothing new? Sandvik’s rock tool specialists decided there was still progress to...
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As the President of the Ground Support division within Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, Martin Rier is responsib...
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On three continents, Sandvik is vastly expanding its capacity to produce cutting-edge batteries and the equipment ...
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According to Elen Toodu, Director, Strategic Product Portfolio Management, Sandvik, the future mine will be full...
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At MINExpo 2024, the mining community will witness the debut of a diesel-electric truck demonstrator by Sandvik. T...
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MineGame is changing the future of mining. Since its development three years ago, the advanced Sandvik simulation ...
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With the development of its first surface test mine and first battery-electric -concept drill rig for surface mini...
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El Teniente, located in the Chilean Andes, is one of the largest underground copper mines on the planet. It is als...
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Gilbert Lamarche, Chief Operating Officer, Foran Mining Corporation, sat down with Solid Ground to discuss Foran’s...
