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Economic advantages of belt conveying in open-pit mining

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Transport systems create a large share both in the initial investment costs and in the operating costs of open pit mines. The main competitive transport systems to be used in larger mines - the discontinuous material transport by trucks and the continuous material transport by belt conveyors - are compared. The advantages of the belt conveyor system are shown by applications of some in-pit crushing and overland conveying systems.

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  1. Department of Mining and Materials Handling Systems, Krupp Fördertechnik GmbH, Duisburg, Germany

    H. Lieberwirth

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Lieberwirth, H. (1994). Economic advantages of belt conveying in open-pit mining. In: Mining Latin America / Minería Latinoamericana. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1216-1_20

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