Main PNG open pit copper-gold-silver miner Okay Tedi Mining Ltd (OTML) is the most recent main mining operation within the nation to take a daring transfer with the introduction of enormous class Chinese language mining gear from XCMG out of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province.
OTML has so as a complete of twenty (20) 230 tonne class diesel-AC electrical drive XDE260 vans from XCMG of which 5 have been delivered late final yr with the remaining 15 due in 2025. Commissioning of the preliminary vans is already underway.
Okay Tedi mine is positioned at Mount Fubilan within the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. As much as 240,000 t of overburden is mined every day from a pit overlaying about 2.6 sq. kilometres. As well as, about 60,000 t of ore is mined every day and delivered to the mill for processing. The prevailing fleet is primarily made up of Caterpillar mechanical drive 793F vans.
The OTML-XCMG relationship started with the profitable deployment of a GR3505T grader in late 2023. XCMG is current within the nation by way of XCMG (PNG) Engineering Equipment Ltd which was established in 2018 and has grown quickly within the nation increasing its building equipment market share into the mining business as nicely. The corporate informed IM that the availability of mining equipment to OTML adopted a rigorous provide tender course of wherein XCMG was profitable with their tender submission.
It’s definitely a significant transfer by OTML and the outcome might be decided by the productiveness end result in months to return. The XDE260 vans at OTML are utilizing a Cummins 2,500 hp QSK60 engine. That is teamed with a Wabtec electrical drive system together with 5GEB25 wheel motors.
Final yr XCMG introduced a big XDE260 order for Oceania however didn’t identify the shopper. “XCMG Mining Building is dedicated to the mission and imaginative and prescient of ‘Main Know-how to Empower Stable Future,’ following the transformation roadmap emphasising high-end, clever, inexperienced, service-oriented, and worldwide growth, leveraging the alternatives of clever and digital transformation in addition to networking capabilities to advertise the high-quality growth of the group, and dealing with our international companions to construct XCMG Mining Building right into a world-class model,” mentioned Geng Jiawen, Basic Supervisor of XCMG Mining Building following the announcement.
