Delta Group Purchases World’s Biggest Mobile Cone-Crusher
Mining and quarrying equipment specialists, Screening and Crushing Solutions (SCS), has manufactured the world’s largest-ever mobile cone crusher. Mining and quarrying equipment solution Built for Melbourne demolition and civil infrastructure company, Delta Group, the 135 tonne track-mounted machine will initially operate out of Delta’s Sunshine plant in Melbourne. Delta is Australasia’s largest demolition contractor, Managing [...]
California Crushing
A new way of applying the primary/secondary crusher circuit–combining a larger horizontal shaft impact (HSI) crusher with a smaller secondary HSI crusher–is proving to be profitable for some aggregates producers, increasing production and decreasing wear costs in an array of applications. Although some applications still call for the primary-jaw/secondary-cone circuit to reduce wear costs and [...]
SBM to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX in Brazil
SBM Minerals will supply crushing, screening and feeding equipment to Anglo American-MMX for its Minas Rio Project located in the Minas Gerais state in Brazil. The delivery will be completed by the end of 2009. The value of the order is approximately EUR 7 million. SBM Mining Equipment for Sale The order comprises two jaw [...]
Mining worker safety drives modern jaw crusher design
To quote a wise crusher operator, Crushing is not just about tons per hour; it’s about safe tons per hour.” But consider that a safe workplace is not achieved via mere lip service and signage, but rather from the right mindset–from owners, managers and workers–and from the manufacturers of each piece of processing equipment. Crushing [...]
American Bonanza Buys Jaw Crusher for the Copperstone Gold Mine
American Bonanza Gold Corp. announced that it has purchased a jaw crusher for the Copperstone gold mine in Arizona. In a release, the company said the jaw crusher is a Nordberg P1008VF Portable Jaw Plant with ST1008 Jaw Crusher (32″ x 40″), a 16 foot x 44″ Vibrating Grizzly feeder, a Kent Model KHB-86 Rock [...]
Crushing equipment performs well in Namibia
Mining, building and civil construction equipment supplier Rex Quip has sold R8-million worth of crushing and screening equipment in Namibia. Sales director for Rex Quip Alan Lang says that with the mobile and static crushing and screening equipment available from Pilot Crushtec, Rex Quip is able to offer refining solutions for the mining, civil engi- [...]
Skid-mounted Jaw Crusher Boosts Availability at Uranium Mine
Paladin Africa has commissioned new crushing and conveying equipment which it says has led to increased utilization and flexibility in the crushing section at its Kayelekera uranium mine in northern Malawi. According to Paladin Africa’s Production Engineer John Chandler, Pilot Crushtec delivered a skid-mounted jaw crusher and crusher feed system which has “provided flexibility at [...]
Watsontown Opens New Plant with New Horizontal Shaft Impactor from Stedman
For Watsontown Brick, nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Watsontown, Pennsylvania, the decision to build a new plant was not made lightly. Owner Mike Fisher wanted to both increase production and meet the changing needs of architects and builders. Doing that meant building a new, bigger plant and purchasing additional kiln cars [...]
Best Crushing Action: Impact and Attrition
To maximize crushing, you must marry impact and attrition actions. When size reduction begins, the material is picked up by the lower liner, moved outwardly and caught between the crushing members. The impact of the head results in reduction of material by grinding and by facture of particle-upon-particle caused by forceful relocation to the particles [...]
Iron mining: where and why
It was called the barren waste, this land that is now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. However, since its first iron ore shipment of two hundred pounds in 1846, the Upper Peninsula mines (below) have produced well over one billion tons of iron ore. Some barren waste! Iron ore is Michigan’s most valuable non-fuel, mined commodity. In [...]