heavy equipment

In order to process bulk building materials or bulky soil heavy equipment is used. This technically are just the heavier versions of conventional mining and earthmoving equipment like excavators, loaders and dump trucks. Typically these vehicles are not roadworthy and have to be transported as abnormal loads.

Massive Earthmoving Machines

Massive Earthmoving Machinery

This third DVD, in the series, deals with just one mine - but what an exceptional mine it is! Boliden's Aitik copper mine, north of the Arctic Circle, in Sweden, is a massive hole measuring 1 kilometre wide, 3 kilometres long and 400 metres deep! Extracting 43 million tonnes of rock a year requires extreme machines - like a Bucyrus 495 and Komatsu 5500 working at the rock face, which are accompanied by a D105 Scraper, a Cat 994 Wheel Loader, a P&H 4100A and a Unit Rig MT4000. Explore the plant and discover the process of extracting copper from the ore-bearing rock.