The Carol Project Mine is located near Labrador City, Canada. It is owned by Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore Group, one of the world's leading mining and exploration companies. The Carol Project Mine produces an iron ore deposit (39% Fe) through open pit mining of shovel, truck and ore cars. They have a throughput of 120,000 tons per day (tpd), and back in 1969 the Carol project extracted its billionth tonne of ore.
IOC was experience deadbed problems with their ore cars that carry ore from the mine to the mill. Alderox Inc was brought on to solve the problem and designed a spray system that was fully autonomous and would not require any downtime for spraying. After the ore cars dump the product into the crusher, the cars get sprayed and go down the 15km stretch to be chute loaded again.
The Railcar Mining Spray System is designed to apply Alderox product to railcars in order to reduce the amount of carry-back. The system is mounted next to the tracks near the crusher and is set up to apply a coat of Alderox to the empty railcars after they dump.
The system is programmed and set up to not interfere with the normal operation of the train. The sophisticated program is preset with the correct amount of Alderox for each car. After the train stops to dump, an empty car will receive an application of Alderox. It utilizes sonic sensors that indicate when a car is in position to spray.
Tank sensors linked with a touch screen indicate the levels of Alderox product left in the tanks and notify the plant operators when the tanks need to be refilled or replaced.
In extreme cold conditions, the temperature of the Alderox product can be maintained to the correct degree for application. Sensors will be set up to monitor the temperature of the product in the tanks and within the spray system itself and linked to a central information center at the touch screen.
IOC is currently in the testing phase with Alderox® ASA-12®. Preliminary results are available but not to be released publicly at this time. Please contact us for more information.
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