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TRACKLESS EQUIPMENT [1 record]

Record 1 2011-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ore Extraction and Transport
CONT

Both tracked and trackless equipment for underground mining is available in Canada. Since the introduction of underground trackless equipment during the sixties, scoop trams, load-haul and dump vehicles and personnel carriers are now being made in Canada.

OBS

trackless mine: A mine with no rails. In these mines, rubber-tired vehicles operating independently of tracks are used for haulage and transport.

OBS

Source SDP-BT-1019928 is a draft document prepared by the Bureau of Business and Economic Development, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, entitled Mining Equipment Manufacturing Industry in Canada: A Regional Perspective.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Extraction et transport du minerai
CONT

A la mine Quirke, la production a surtout été tirée de deux horizons de conglomérats, soit le filon "C" qui fournit encore la majeure partie du minerai et le filon "A" situé, du point de vue stratigraphique, à quelques 45 mètres au-dessus du filon "C" et qui a récemment été mis en valeur au moyen de matériel sans rail hautement mécanisé.

Spanish

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