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| Five ways to boost the availability of your mining equipment |
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 It could cost a mine operator over a thousand dollars per hour for a mining dump truck or a mining excavator not to be working. With such high costs associated with downtime, there is no question how important it is to improve equipment availability within the mining industry.
Let’s define equipment availability as the duration the equipment is ready when it matters. This is important for many applications, including you being able to do something personal like drive your car when you need it. However, what makes mining exceptional is the combination of downtime costs and the continuous need for the equipment to operate. A typical mine works 24/7 throughout the year, for years to decades. A mining haul truck could work for over 600 hours a month, which is the equivalent of two years of driving for an average US driver.
Given the importance of equipment availability for miners, |
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| Skyriders assists Diesel Innovations with genset project at Helen Joseph |
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 Rope-access specialist Skyriders assisted leading standby power solutions provider Diesel Innovations with the installation of ducting required for a genset project at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg.
The project called for a large exhaust pipe from the ground installation up to the roof of |
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| HMA Geotechnical solution for Greenfield ammonia plant in Indonesia |
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 HMA Geotechnical has supplied its Wisenmeshnet® wireless infrastructure monitoring system for one of the largest industrial projects in Eastern Indonesia. This is the first time that this system, intended mainly for mining and civil engineering, has been adapted successfully for such an application.
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Mining Companies manage large fleets of vehicles and the effective management of these fleets of vehicles is not only cost effective |
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| What to Consider When Hiring Equipment |
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| When you are hiring equipment for your next construction project, there are certain things that you should consider. And this is especially true of crane |
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| How to Apply for Mining Finance |
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| Financing your mining project can be expensive. This is especially true if you will be using your own funds to start it off. But you can also apply for |
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