On Feb. 16, the Polish coal mining company Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. smashed the world record for daily production from a plow-equipped longwall, with an output of 24,400 tonnes of coal from a single face, Caterpillar Inc. has reported. The company commissioned the first Cat® longwall system at its Bogdanka mine, near Lublin in...
Caterpillar has introduced its new 789D Mining Truck, which incorporates new features to boost performance and productivity and to enhance safety and serviceability. A number of new options provide customers the flexibility to configure the truck for each application, the company said. The 789D builds on more than 25 years of proven performance for the...
A page from a PowerPoint presentation given by Rio Tinto at an investor relations seminar Tuesday provides an interesting perspective on what the industry is facing during the current phenomenal demand. While opportunities abound and while Rio Tinto now has $27 billion of major capital projects under way, Guy Elliott, the company’s CFO told...
Caterpillar recently produced its 50,000th rigid-frame off-highway truck — a milestone achieved at the Decatur, Ill., plant where such trucks have been produced since 1963. No. 50,000 is a 777F, a versatile 100-ton-capacity (91-tonne-capacity) truck that sees application in heavy construction, quarry and aggregates and mining. “Today, our large mining trucks are moving more...
