Category: HL – 2017 – Session I

By David E. Pitchford, President, MMD Mineral Sizing (America) Typical truck and shovel operations have “start/stop” operations; shovel loads a truck and then waits for the next truck to back into a loading position....

Greg Ladewig, Regional Manager, MineWare This presentation will explore the critical link between loader productivity, operator performance and the overall cost of mining as far as: How the performance of material loading assets...

By M. Dotto, T.G. Joseph, M. Curley Equipment selection is one of the most important decisions made in mine planning as the size of equipment affects decisions from size of pit to total cost of operation. This study analyzes...

By Keith Taylor, Sr. Geotechnical Engineer, Freeport-McMoRan The mining industry has long recognized the importance of slope stability as it pertains to safely extracting metal and ore from open pits. Many open pits mines use...