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Ironclad
Kiruna
John Chadwick examines the new main production level at one of the worlds
most technically innovative sub-level cave mines
Trackless treasure
North Bay, Ontario, Ph: (705) 474-2777, Fax: (705) 474-5083, Email: sales@nordicmine.com, Web: www.nordicmine.com
Solo/Wassara combination
One of the latest production developments
involves Sandviks DL520-W Solo jumbos
mounted with Wassara DTH drills. LKAB had
come to Sandvik with various requests for
production drilling:
More effective process
Improved quality of the drilling process
Reduced cost of capital and mining
operations
Improved hole accuracy
Increased reliability of the drilling process.
The result was a technology development
based on those requirements with input from
LKAB and Wassara. It is a high specification
machine that features a high level of
automation. There is a high level of unit
reliability due to its high utilisation. Some of its
major features are:
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a number of Kirunas LHDs, were remotecontrolled. Here again, Kiruna was a world
leader.
That system was shut down recently and
Kiruna has ordered Sandviks AutoMine-Lite
system (IM, January 2010, pp50-52) and one
additional LH621 for testing and evaluating the
automation system. The AutoMine-Lite system
is to be installed and started up during the
autumn of this year and the LH621 will be
delivered during the summer. The mine already
operates three Sandvik LH621s (21 t capacity
diesel LHDs).
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Kiruna
growth
The company has been
granted an
environmental permit
for the new mine at
Gruvberget, near the
village of Svappavaara
in the Municipality of
Kiruna. LKABs
president, Lars-Eric
Aaro commented:
now we can open
LKABs first iron ore
mine in 50 years.
The ruling by the
Environmental Court
means that LKAB can
move ahead with plans
to increase production
of finished products by
10 Mt/y. Were aiming
for 37 Mt, and
Gruvberget will be an
important step towards
reaching that target.
We must do this to be
able to keep pace with
our customers who
wish to grow. Since the
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