Mining: Volvo Customer Center in Eskilstuna, Sanvik Mining and Construction, Video

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"From Rock to Road" Swecon Volvo and Sandvik Mining & Construction - Video

Video Description
A video from the machine show at the "From Rock to Road" event at Volvo Customer Center in Eskilstuna, Sweden, 8 october 2010. The event was a cooperation between the Swedish Volvo Construction Equipment dealer Swecon and Sandvik Mining & Construction. Then chain from rock to road was showcased; rock cleaning for drilling, drilling for blasting, feeding primary crusher, rehandling, secondary crushing and screening, road building, planing for paving and finally paving. Drills, crushers, wheel loaders, dumpers, excavators, mini diggers, graders, FMX trucks and pavers were used during the demonstration. Source: Swecon.ce

This video highlights the importance of mining and minerals and the investment that needs to be made to ensure that products can be manufactured to meet the desires of the world. Source: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME)

Volvo’s Eskilstuna demonstration
The quarry face featured a remote controlled Sandvik DX680R hydraulic, self-propelled, crawler based surface drilling rig designed for efficient top hammer drilling in difficult terrain. Alongside was a remote controlled DC302R hydraulic, self-propelled drilling unit with four-wheel drive.

Supporting the drilling rigs were three Volvo crawler excavators in the shape of the EC240CL, EC460CL, and EC700CL with operating weights of 26tonnes, 48.3tonnes and 71.7tonnes, respectively. The Volvo EC460CL excavator was used primarily to load a Sandvik UJ440E jaw crusher which is capable of accepting rock sizes up to 760mm and can crush up to 600tonnes per hour. Powered by a Volvo 1241 TAD diesel engine, the 71tonne UJ440E produced crushed rock, which was then transported for processing into various size aggregates using a Volvo L220F wheeled loader.

Final crushing and screening was demonstrated using Sandvik’s UH421 cone crusher featuring a three deck screen and a UF320S semi mobile screen capable of screening 160tonnes per hour into four different sized products. Loading of the hoppers for both units was carried out using Volvo wheeled loaders, including the 21tonne L120F and the 26tonne L150F. Final product was then transported away from the crushing and screening plant using Volvo FM trucks. Source: AggBusiness.com.

Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. Any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined. Mining in a wider sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource. Source: Wikipedia, Mining.

 


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