Portable Underground Hardrock Crushers

Rock Crushing

An objective of the present contract is to “provide a concept for the design of a portable underground hard rock crusher in order to insure that future development will lead to maximum utilization by industry”. The preceding section has concluded that the industry can indeed use such a machine and that, within desired performance and … Read more

Mining Methods VS Underground Crusher Location

In Section 2 we dismissed those “big-room” applications not needing fundamentally new equipment, and lumped all the rest together. Now, as we examine specific mine types, it is appropriate to differentiate within these categories the manner in which portable crushers might be used, and the consequent effect on desired machine parameters. The common yardstick by … Read more

Portable Rock Crushers

As it relates to portable crushers, the basic portability concept under investigation here might better be described by the phrase ”decentralized crushing to allow automated ore haulage”. Clearly this means more and smaller crushers exhibiting some degree of mobility, and automated ore haulage usually means belt conveyors. The trade-off is a necessarily more costly crushing … Read more