MANAGEMENT

Battery electric: the death of diesel underground?

Carly Leonida looks at the tantalising prospects of electric load and haul fleets

Carly Leonida
A battery electric vehicle from AVS at Kirkland Lake Gold's Macassa mine level 3900

A battery electric vehicle from AVS at Kirkland Lake Gold's Macassa mine level 3900

Space mining aside, one of the most interesting and busiest conference streams that I attended at the CIM Convention in Montreal, Canada, in early May was titled ‘The all-electric mine: maintenance, engineering...

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A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the mining sector, brought to you by the Mining Magazine Intelligence team.

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