Sandvik Mining and Rock Options is introducing the Sandvik D50KX, the fourth drill rig in its x-series rotary blasthole line.
The compact, mid-class drill delivers excessive productiveness for drilling each rotary and down-the-hole (DTH) manufacturing blastholes.
The Sandvik D50KX helps a gap diameter vary of 127 to 229 mm and comes geared up with superior digital connectivity, guaranteeing exact, clear blastholes, the corporate says.
Patrick Murphy, President of Rotary Drilling at Sandvik Mining and Rock Options, stated: “Sandvik D50KX affords digitally pushed, enhanced productiveness, serving to drill-and-blast operators enhance productiveness and cut back value through enhanced digital purposes. As demand for our rotary blasthole drills continues to develop, this growth of our x-series vary reinforces our customer-centric strategy.”
The Sandvik D50KX delivers an prolonged mast single-pass capability of 11 m with a complete depth of 20.1 m and 24,950-kg weight on bit.
Excessive-precision TIM3D GPS navigation bundle exactly positions the drill inside the predefined sample, considerably growing productiveness, in response to the corporate. This superior expertise ensures correct and environment friendly drilling operations, optimising useful resource use and minimising downtime.
Operators can leverage My Sandvik digital options through the Information Field™, gaining real-time insights into tools upkeep, productiveness and utilisation, whereas optimising operations and maximising return on funding.
The brand new rig additionally helps clients’ sustainability wants, with clever system load administration serving to cut back carbon emissions and lengthen part life, bettering working prices, Sandvik says. The compressor management system matches compressor quantity to utility, decreasing gas burn and ensuing environmental affect whereas bettering gap high quality.
