Contura Coal West, based in the Powder River Basin (western US), needed additional machines but did not have the capital budget to invest in new equipment. Contura did, however, have two idled shovels in the eastern United States it could relocate. To meet production requirements, these machines had to be moved, reassembled, upgraded and operational within eight months.
Frustrated by its drilling costs, a U.S. mine agreed to let Joy Global run tests comparing our Montabert HC110 to a leading competitor’s hydra ...View more
Electric rope shovels are high value assets that carry ultra-high criticality in surface mining operations. In the current environment of depress ...View more
One of the biggest inefficiencies in the continuous mining process is waiting for a batch haulage unit to arrive and get into position. Any reduc ...View more
Today’s mining market is a challenge, but Joy Global has the solutions to help mining operations reduce costs and increase productivity, while ...View more
