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Article: Trials for Egypt's first surface miner.(Brief Article)
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- Mining Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Trials for Egypt's first Wirtgen sturface miner 2100 SM are currently being carried out at a new limestone quarry near the city of Beni Suet, where according to the operatives it is meeting an average hourly production of 70[m.sup.3]/hour, despite varying strata hardness of between 500-700 kg/[cm.sup.2.]
The Wirtgen unit owned and operated by locally based Kolaly Engineering was delivered to the quarry for trials scheduled to last 18 months and whose purpose is to get data on productivity and cost for the direct production of small particles size ([less than]100 mm) in a non-blasting mining process.
The surface mining process has been taken into ...