Wirtgen Surface Miner

Surface Mining Technology

An economic concept
for blast-free,
highly selective Mining

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 9th February 2012

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The Mining Concept
and
The Operating Method

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A Surface Miner - here’s how it works

Conveyor Drive unit with

Slewing ring counterweight diesel engine Operator‘s cabin

Slewing and
height-adjustable
discharge conveyor

Working direction

Height-adjustable Scraper blade with Mechanically driven Steered and height-

crawler track primary conveyor cutting drum adjustable crawler track

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Mining sequences

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Direct / indirect loading options

Front loader from behind Rear loader-loading from the side

Sidecasting mode Windrowing mode

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 Wirtgen product range
Performance ranges

2200 SM – conveyor loading

Bank Cubic Meter (bm³) per hour

2200 SM – windrowing

2200 SM / 3800 SM – Windrowing

2500 SM

4200 SM

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120

Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of material in MPa (Mega pascal)

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The Applications for
Surface Miners

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Capabilities of Surface Miners
The following jobs are not longer required:

Cut, crush, load in one operation with one machine

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 Mining without blasting

• Environmentally friendly:
- No dust generation
- No noise or air overpressure
- No ground vibrations

• Improved safety:
- No explosives
- No fly rocks

• Better exploitation:
- Mining up to the tenement
boundary

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Highly-selective mining

- High quality ROM-products

- Reduced processing cost (less washing,
less crushing)
- Reduced waste material handling
- Better exploitation of deposit
- Better stripping ratio

Parting
Coal
Parting
Coal
Parting
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Highly-selective mining

- High quality ROM-products

- Reduced processing cost (less washing,
less crushing)
- Reduced waste material handling
- Better exploitation of deposit
- Better stripping ratio

Coal
Parting
Coal
Parting
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Highly-selective mining

- High quality ROM-products

- Reduced processing cost (less washing,
less crushing)
- Reduced waste material handling
- Better exploitation of deposit
- Better stripping ratio

Parting
Coal
Parting
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Highly-selective mining

- High quality ROM-products

- Reduced processing cost (less washing,
less crushing)
- Reduced waste material handling
- Better exploitation of deposit
- Better stripping ratio

Coal
Parting
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Selective mining

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Blending by cutting on a slope

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Grain size distribution - limestone, gypsum, phosphate

Gradation in gypsum

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Steep and stable slope cutting

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Smooth truck loading

Advantages: Small particles in constant flow do not

harm truck bodies.
No tire and chassis damages since trucks
travel on even and solid ground.
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 Selective Mining
of
Lignite
at
North American Coal
Red Hills Mine, Mississippi

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Selective Mining of thin lignite seams

Bench width: 56 m
Trial operation in Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Pilbara
Bench length: 800 m
Iron Ore Operation
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Selective Mining of upper two lignite seams

No. of seams: 6
SeamTrial operation0,6
thickness: into
Rio
2mTinto’s Iron Ore Pilbara
Iron ratio:
Stripping Ore Operation
13:1
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Selective supervision – camera on Surface Miner

Trial operation in Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Pilbara

Iron Ore Operation
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Continuous truck loading

Trial operation in Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Pilbara

Iron Ore Operation
Loading 135 t in approx. 2:45 min = 2945 t/h
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Wirtgen Surface Miner 4200 SM on the move

The Benefits at a glance:

Highly selective mining of lignite and interburden
- High calorific ROM lignite
- High exploitation = low stripping ratio
Trial operation
Production of minus 150in Rio
mm Tinto’s
particle Iron
size Ore Pilbara
Iron
Cutting Ore Operation
performance: 3.000 t/h
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Surface Miner application (by rock type)

(379 machines sold as per December 31, 2011)

Kimberlite - 4 Machines
Granite - 5 Machines

Phosphate - 5 Machines Caliche, Dolomite, Mudstone,

Oilshale, Pegmatite, Shale,
Bauxite - 10 Machines Tuff - 11 Machines (total)

Salt - 27 Machines
Limestone - 156 Machines
Gypsum - 26 Machines

Iron Ore - 49 Machines

Coal - 86 Machines

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Surface Miner sold worldwide (as per Dec. 31, 2011)

East Europe
51 42
32
West Europe
North America
133
8 39 Asia
North Africa
Central America

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8 58
South Africa
South America Australia

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Conclusion

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For optimisation of mining and processing
Wirtgen Surface Miners offer the following benefits

] Simple Mining (cut, crush, load in one operation)

= Save Money (economic Mining= one machine for the entire job)
= Sized Material production (no crushing)
= Smooth Material flow (loading of common trucks)
] Selective Mining
] Safe Mining (no blasting)
] Sealed Mining (cutting drum entirely covered, no flying rock, no dust)
] Surface Manipulation (+ Even floor profiles for easy loading
+ Safe traffic ability
+ Surface water drainage)
] Slope Manipulation (precise, steep and stable slopes )

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With our customers around the world

Thank you
for your
kind
attention!

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