Extraction of copper, silver and gold delivered sales revenues of SEK 3.5 billion in 2014. Aitik employs 700 people or almost ten percent of the entire local population of Gällivare. …

La mine d'Aitik est une mine à ciel ouvert de cuivre située près de Gällivare dans le comté de Norrbotten en Suède.Elle appartient à Boliden AB.Découvert dans les années 1930, sa production a débuté en 1968, avec une production de 2 millions de tonnes de minerai par an, production qui est monté graduellement à 19 millions de tonnes par an. Depuis …

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

The Aitik open pit is scheduled to reach an ultimate depth of 400m in the northern section by 2012. Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near …

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 copper and gold mine, producing two tons of gold per year. It is the largest gold mine of Sweden and the …

Swedish mining company Boliden has set a new production record at its Aitik copper mine. On July 14, 2013, 144 912 tons of ore passed through the plant, and thanks to a steadily increasing average production, July 2013 ended up being Aitik's most productive month to date with 3.5 million tons of ore. The mine is now operating at an annual ...

Snapshot. Aitik is the world's most productive open-pit copper mine. Aitik is mined as an open pit complex consisting of the main pit, "Aitik", and two satellite pits "Salmijärvi", …

Ce n'est qu'au bord de la mine qu'on en mesure la taille. Le fond, qui atteint 545 mètres, est recouvert d'une légère brume vaporeuse, tandis que les véhicules miniers qui …

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).

The mining in Aitik is commenced at three pushbacks designatedS3, N6and N7. Salmijärvi has one active pushbackcalledSA2.The mined out ore tonnage in 2020totaled 41661kt. 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%.

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 …

Aitik mine is by size the largest open-pit metal mine in Europe and the main pit measures over 3 km in length, 1.1 km in width and 435 m in depth ( Figure 2).Production in the Salmijärvi open-pit ...

AITIK: GEOPHYSICAL DOCUMENTATION 193 Phase IV Supplementary surveys By 1965 a decision to start mining the Aitik deposits had been taken; our task was largely finished and from the prospecting point of view no further surveys were called for in the area. However, realizing that Aitik appeared to be an important low-grade (third- generation ...

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. …

It is the first trolley assist line in Finland and joins Boliden's other trolley operation at Aitik copper mine in Sweden, which uses 313 t 795F AC trucks. From December 2021 to February 2022, two trucks are being tested on the 500 m test track. In total, the final trolley track will be 1.3 km long.

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 …

Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near Gallivare, northern Sweden, the low-grade Aitik copper deposit was discovered in the early 1930s. Bulk …

Monitoring systems are important tools to generate information for different decision makers in the mining process to improve the quality and efficiency of the mine. Optimization of the mining process can have a significant impact on the production of the mine. Monitoring systems are important tools to generate information for different decision makers in the …

Aitik mine geology and reserves . The Aitik mine's orebody is hosted by a basin of volcanic rocks surrounded by granitic intrusions within a supracrustal metamorphosed shear zone of Precambrian age. Biotite schists in the volcanic sequence contain disseminated chalcopyritic mineralisation averaging less than 0.40% copper, as well as gold and ...

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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 current collectors, similar to those on …

Aitik is the largest open-pit copper mine in Europe and a world mining industry benchmark in mine efficiency. Output after the overhaul is set to rise from 43 t to 55 t/man-hour of work, Boliden says. As a result, the company can mine even lower-grade ore, allowing it to raise the mine's productive life by 13 years to 2029.

The world's most productive underground zinc mine. Garpenberg in Hedemora municipality is one of the world's most modern mines. It is also Sweden's oldest mining area still in operation. Complex ores containing zinc, lead, silver, copper and gold are mined here.

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 ...

The project aims to examine the possibility of replacing elements of Aitik's transport system with electrified trucks. The objective is to be able to move the majority of the 70 million or so tonnes of rock transported at the open pit each year entirely without the use of fossil fuel.

Pour augmenter sa productivité, la mine d'Aitik mise sur la performance des tech-nologies ABB qui ont permis à Boliden de porter ses capacités d'extraction à 36 millions de tonnes de minerai par an. Entraînements de convoyeur Les 7 km de convoyeur qui charrient les

Boliden's open pit and underground mines are some of the world's most productive. One reason for this is our constant development of new techniques and methods of exploiting resources in the best possible way. ... At Aitik, we also use a tagging system that gives employees equipment status updates and facilitates maintenance work. Boliden Aitik ...

The Aitik copper mine is owned by Boliden AB and situated outside the town of Gällivare in northern Sweden. It is one of Europe's largest open pit copper mines. Associated with the copper, some quantities of gold and silver are produced alongside the main production. The mine was put into production in 1968, and the production was set at two million tonnes …

Outotec and Boliden have signed an extension of their service contract for Boliden's Aitik copper mine in Gällivare, Northern Sweden. The 3+2-year extension of the Life-Cycle Services agreement covers the supply of mill lining, chute lining solutions, preventive maintenance of the grinding circuit and recycling of used wear parts.

MASKINDATA - några av världens största maskiner finns i Aitik Hjullastare (LeTourneau) L-2350 • Basmått: Längd 21 m; Bredd 6,76 m; Höjd 6,73 m; Vikt 272 ton • Motor: 2 300 hk. • Skopvolym: 338 m Hjullastare 994F • Basmått: Längd 17 m; Bredd 5,5 m; Höjd 7,5 m; Vikt 210 ton • Motor: 1 800 hk.

The new Aitik autogenous grinding (AG) milling circuit was based on the successful original milling plant at Aitik, with a focus on low life-of-mine operating costs. At the heart of this is eliminating steel grinding media, maximizing the use of gravity flow, and using spiral classifiers instead of hydrocyclones.