Every day, 6,000 tonnes of rock are hauled out of the mine
Every day, 6,000 tonnes of rock are hauled out of the mine Velardeña in MExico, the bulk of them on 40-tonne Sandvik Mining trucks. Those trucks, and other equipment maintained around the clock by an on-site Sandvik Mining team, keep the mine moving. This is told by Mining Stories.
To meet ambitious production goals for the Velardeña mine, Peñoles uses six Sandvik Mining trucks to haul thousands of tonnes of zinc out of a section of the underground mine that stretches across two kilometres and descends 200 metres into the earth. The company also uses 15 Sandvik underground loaders, seven mining jumbos to drill through rock and three rock support drill rigs to support the mine as it is excavated. On top of the equipment, Sandvik has a service and maintenance agreement with Peñoles to ensure all the machinery is constantly running efficiently.
“Having the maintenance done by Sandvik, with its own mechanics, gives us an assurance of proficiency, and we don’t have to worry about the upkeep of the equipment,” says Hugo Alberto Palacios Martinez, general manager at Peñoles. Palacios Martinez oversees all operations at the Velardeña mine, and he believes the service programme is a big part of the mine’s successful operation.
