Abstract
Surface mining machinery has increased in size and power to enable deeper deposits to be exploited economically at high rates of production. Most of these machines are electrically operated and this requires carefully planned electrical distribution systems and supporting services such as an increasing degree of automation to reduce the expensive requirement of manpower, planned maintenance of equipment to reduce the chance of breakdown of machines which with larger machines and an increasing degree of mechanization and concentration can have a catastrophic effect on output and communication.
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Sinclair, J. (1969). Power Supply in the Surface Mining Industries. In: Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7611-8_13
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