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World Coal
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July 2015
Reaching new
Willem Niemandt, Sandvik Mining,
South Africa,
describes the longest
single flight overland conveyor
project in Africa.
J
ohannesburg-based
Sandvik Mining Systems Africa, the
Sandvik Group’s global technical
centre for conveyor technology, has
reached the installation phase of the
Shondoni Mine Materials Handling Project
being executed near Secunda in
South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province for
Sasol Mining. The project includes a
20.5 km overland conveyor – the longest
single flight conveyor without any
intermediate drive stations in Africa –
which has been installed in a ‘C’ shape
using five horizontal curves equally
spaced along its length.
This major undertaking is the biggest
and most technically advanced conveyor
project of its kind that Sandvik Mining has
undertaken in Africa.
This state-of-the-art system, installed at
its new Twistdraai Colliery Thubelisha
Shaft project, which is located in the same
area as the currently developed Shondoni
coal mine, comprised shaft conveyors, a
15 000 t surface bunker complete with
tripper conveyor, bunker withdrawal
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Figure 1.Thubelisha 12 km overland conveyor passing over a rail service.
