INNOVATIVE LOADING TECHNOLOGY DELIVERS OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Boliden is working hard to automate its mining facilities and drive advances in environmental protection, safety and production; as part of this, its Ireland facility now features Bruks Siwertell’s first fully automatic loader and conveyor coupling technology TEXT
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AT EUROPE’S LARGEST ZINC MINE ,
Boliden Tara Mines, near Navan, in County Meath, Ireland, around 2.6 million metric tons of ore is mined annually for the production of zinc and lead concentrates.
The 1,000m-deep facility has been in production since 1977 and was acquired by Swedish company, Boliden AB, in 2004. Over this time, more than 85 million metric tons of ore has been extracted. The mine is also one of the BULK HANDLING NEWS 7
