ABB Ltd. ( ABB) recently unveiled a novel service product - Hoist Performance Fingerprint - designed to aid clients in evaluating and optimizing the performance of the mine hoists. The news, coming on ...

Hoist drums were often located partially below the floor. Cutting out a section of foam under the hoist house allowed me to duplicate this feature. I even made a basic representation of the steam ...

HANCOCK, MI – The Upper Peninsula’s Copper Country is opening three mines for summer tours. “Get your hard hat on because it’s time to explore historic mines in the Keweenaw (Peninsula),” said Jesse ...

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ABB has won another order from LKAB, a high-tech international minerals group in Sweden, to modernize five mine hoists for its iron ore mine in Kiruna, Sweden. The order includes mechanical, ...

Hindustan Zinc’s major Rampura Agucha zinc mine in India is moving underground and has ordered three mine hoist systems from ABB as key equipment for this. ABB has won an order for three complete mine ...

The Venetia mine, which officially opened on August 14, 1992, is currently the largest producer of diamonds in South Africa and accounts for about 40% of the country’s total yearly diamond production.