Shovel reloading points for the road and rail transport

Abstract

Minimum operation of the open pit transport, being the first link of road and rail transport, will be provided if the truck haulage distance of maximum rock tonnage to the reloading point will be minimum. This imposes a number of requirements on the optimum mining technology, such as the use of more powerful shovels on the border of adjacent links of combined transport and the possibility of operating the second link of combined transport without freezing the working pit wall. The second requirement is fulfilled when using the developed design of the reloading point for shovels.