What is a mining conveyor?
The mining conveyor is a type of machine used to move ore or waste material generated by mining operations. These types of conveyors, albeit similar to smaller transport machines, are much larger and designed to carry very heavy loads. Some types of mining conveyor can carry hundreds of thousands of raw ore daily over long distances, in some cases more than a mile (1.6 km). One mining conveyor is 4.7 miles long (7.5 km). Make -up conveyors are usually a belt type, but other types are possible. These machines are much more efficient than traditional forms of transport and can provide continuous flow of ore for plant processing, refinery or distribution stations. The lower conveyors are relatively easy to adjust and move as needed and adapt to changing conditions at the place of mining sites.
Not all mining transports are extremely long, ground types and can be much shorter. Many mines with equipment on -site processing uses mining trafficKy to move ore or waste materials from mine to other facilities or in the neighborhood below. Many of them, even if they are built to withstand extremely heavy use, can be much shorter than huge ground conveyors.
Machines with high -angle of the mining conveyor are a specialized type of mining conveyor that is designed to lift or trigger materials at a steep angle. These types of conveyor can be used in mines open pits, for example to raise the material from the bottom of the mine to the edge. Sandwich conveyors use belts under and above the material to be moved, a configuration that allows extreme angles and curves in the road.
While many conveyors have flat surfaces, a typical mining conveyor has a trough shaped cross -section with sides. This increases the amount of material that the conveyor can apply to a linear unit. Such conveyors have a rollery directly below the belt and on the sides of the belt.
Some boring tunnel machines, such as huge machines used for digging tunnels under the English channel, have their own integral mining transport systems. These systems are designed to take away the waste material created by the tunneling process. These conveyors start on the very front of the machine and in fact spread through the center of the machine, waste material waste, sometimes at 2 miles (3.2 km) or more, where it is transferred to another conveyor or other forms of transport for removal from the tunnel.