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Boliden to spend $530 million on improving Aitik mine's

Miner Boliden said on Monday it would spend 5 billion Swedish crowns ($530 million) over the next two years on works on the tailings dam at its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden.

Boliden warns of lower Q4 copper ore throughput …

The company now expects Aitik's fourth quarter throughput of copper ore to be about 9 million tonnes, down from just over 11 million tonnes expected previously, it said in a statement.

Boliden launches electric mine-truck pilot project in Aitik

Boliden has initiated a pilot and demonstration project for the electrification of in-pit truck transports in Aitik – Sweden's largest open pit copper mine – together with key partners in industry and academia. The project will develop, install and operate an electric transport route with electric trolley lines and four electric mine trucks.

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The new trolley assist system for electric drive mining trucks is now available for mining operations seeking a means to reduce carbon emissions, lower fuel and engine costs, and boost ...

Boliden introduces AHS at Aitik | Global Mining Review

Global Mining Review, Monday, 25 October 2021 12:30. Advertisement. Boliden has decided to introduce an autonomous hauling system, Frontrunner, on 11 haul …

Boliden Aitik

With around 900 employees, the Aitik mine is the largest private employer in Gällivare Municipality. During 2018 and 2019 a project for electrification of rock trucks was conducted in Aitik. Four 795-trucks were adapted with …

mining machines aitik copper mine

Boliden Aitik BolidenSwedish Copper Mine Converting Monster Trucks To. Mines Boliden Aitik The world s most efficient open pit copper mine Aitik just south of Gällivare in northern Sweden is Sweden s largest open pit coppermine The work in Aitik is done by some of the biggest machines in the world They include rock dumpers weighing 570 tonnes when loaded whose wheels …

Boliden backs trolley assist haulage for Aitik …

Boliden has decided to invest SEK300 million ($31.2 million) to expand the trolley assist facilities at its Aitik copper mine, in Sweden, as well as implement the corresponding technology at its Kevitsa nickel mine, in Finland. …

Aitikgruvan – Wikipedia

Dagbrottet i Aitik är cirka tre km långt, en km brett och 500 meter djupt. Den trappstegsliknande formen har kommit till genom pallbrytning.I botten syns en ansamling gruvvatten.. Aitikgruvan är en koppargruva som ligger cirka 15 kilometer östsydöst om Gällivare i Lappland.Gruvan ägs av Boliden AB genom dotterbolaget Boliden Mineral och är Skandinaviens största dagbrott och …

Boliden's Aitik AI tests show promising results

The miner conducted a study to see if AI technology could be successfully applied to its concentration processes at its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden. Johannes Sikström, development engineer and project manager for system technology at Boliden, said his division developed dynamic simulations of the mine's processes.

Aitik mine, Sweden – Mine Closure

Waste management for mine closure – Aitik Cu mine, Sweden Henna Punkkinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland, e-mail: henna.punkkinen(at)vtt.fi Introduction The Aitik mine, owned by Boliden AB is located outside of Gällivare near the Arctic Circle, northern Sweden. The mining started in 1968 and is planned …

[PDF] Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental

DOI: 10.1016/J.APGEOCHEM.2014.09.010 Corpus ID: 54671310; Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation @article{Kossoff2014MineTD, title={Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation}, author={David Kossoff and William E. Dubbin and …

Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2021 | Boliden

Aitik . In Aitik, work continues on preparing the Liikavaara deposit, approximately 3 km northwest of Aitik, for mining. Exploration and evaluation are also underway at the Nautanen deposit, approximately 15 km north of Aitik. In Aitik, including Liikavaara, the Mineral Reserve largely decreases with what was mined during the year, 40.1 Mton.

Aitik Mine, Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Sweden

Reference: Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2008): US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155.; C. Wanhainen & O. Martinsson (2000) The Aitik Cu-Au deposit, Gellivare area, northern Sweden. In Abstract volume and Field trip Guidebook, 2nd annual GEODE-Fennoscandian shield field workshop on Palaeoproterozoic and Archean greenstone belts and …

Show Mines of Sweden: Aitiks Koppargruva

Description. The Gruvtur (Mine Tour) starts at the open air museum town Kåkstan in Malmberget and then visits the open-cast mine at Aitik. Kåkstan was built in 1888, in the early years wages were high and housing rare. Aitik Mine is a …

Fragmentation by blasting through precise initiation: Full …

Fragmentation is an important factor for improving downstream processes in mine operations. Six trials have been conducted at the Aitik copper mine to investigate the effect of ultra-short inter ...

Boliden Summary Report

of Aitik.The mining in Aitik is commenced at three pushbacks designatedS3, N6and N7. Salmijärvi has one active pushbackcalledSA2.The mined-outore tonnage in 2022totaled 43.3mt. Copper is the most valuable commodity in Aitik, accounting for about 80 % of the revenue. The second most valuable commodity is Gold at 15%, followed by Silver at 5%.

Boliden Summary Report

out during 2022 for Aitik.Measured resource in Aitik decreased by 127Mt to 154Mt. Indicated resource decreasedby 40 Mt to 581Mt. Inferred resource increasedby 397Mt …

Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2021 | Boliden

Mineral Resources have increased by 17 Mton (27%) and the Mineral Reserve has increased by 4.2 Mton (5%). In 2021, 3.1 Mton was milled in Garpenberg. Kevitsa. In Kevitsa, …

Boliden doubles ore production at Aitik and creates one of …

The expansion will increase the mine's productivity to 55 tonnes/man hour, making Aitik one of the most efficient copper mines in the world. The previous production plan for Aitik ran until early 2016. The expansion plan now approved will extend the mine's lifespan to at least 2025. Competitiveness boosted

Aitik tour: ABB technology stations

installations at Aitik. The motors range in power from 4 kilowatts to 3.36 megawatts and are used at almost every stage of the mining process. They drive the crushers in the mining pit, the conveyors carrying the crushed rock to the concentrator, the grinding mills, the pumps supplying water to the mills and removing the muddy waste left after the

A mine of eficiency

A mine of efficiency Sophisticated ABB technologies extend life of Aitik copper mine Aitik, Boliden's impressive open-pit copper mine in northern Sweden, recently modernized its complete mining operation to double production capacity and extend the mine's lifespan to 2030. In spite of the low ore grades, Boliden

Boliden's Aitik AI tests show promising results

30 July 2019. The miner conducted a study to see if AI technology could be successfully applied to its concentration processes at its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden. Johannes …

The Aitik tailings dam failure (Gällivare, Sweden)

Aitik is an open pit copper mine and a mill located 60 km north of the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. The mine is Europe's largest open pit copper mine. It is in operation since 1968. It has proven and probable reserves of 213 million tonnes of ore at grades of 0.4% Cu, 0.2 g/t Au, and 3 g/t Ag (Jan. 1, 2000).

Boliden Aitik copper mine in Sweden increases productivity …

Making world-class records. Just south of Gällivare in the north-central part of Sweden lies Boliden Aitik, the country's largest open pit copper mine with an impressive depth of 450 meters.

Boliden doubles ore production at Aitik and creates one of …

The average copper level will be 0.29 per cent. Aitik will continue to be a low-level mineralisation but will, as before, compensate for this through high levels of productivity. Aitik …

Boliden Aitik copper mine in Sweden increases productivity …

Making world-class records. Just south of Gällivare in the north-central part of Sweden lies Boliden Aitik, the country's largest open pit copper mine with an impressive …

Boliden Copper Mine, Aitik, Sweden

KiD2 at Aitik raises the bar for very large mine crushing …

The KiD2 open pit crushing project at Boliden's Aitik copper operation in northern Sweden just south of Gällivare is one of the largest and most complex ever constructed – it is now complete after just under two years of construction, and Boliden Aitik recently inaugurated the new crushing facility after a testing period.

Boliden's trolley journey continues to evolve

It started testing trucks on the Kevitsa line late last year, while its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden ran electric-drive trucks on trolley as far back as 2018. Following a two-year trolley assist pilot project on a 700-m-long line at Aitik – which saw Eitech and ABB supply electrical infrastructure; Pon Equipment and carry ...