{"id":1133552,"date":"2019-08-20T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=999712"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:20:23","slug":"technology-boosts-productivity-at-ruscoals-khakassia-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1133552","title":{"rendered":"Technology boosts productivity at RusCoal\u2019s Khakassia mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Coal saw a 5% increase in productivity at its Stepnoy Pit just two months after the company installed, in the mine&#8217;s BelAZ dump trucks, a technological solution called Karier Mine Fleet Management&nbsp;System, which is produced by Vist Group.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Sergey Sekletsov, Head of IT at the Chernogorsk Branch of Russian Coal, the mine&#8217;s existing software was updated by automating its information transmission processes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, up-to-date statistics on transportation volumes and downtime, as well as dump truck distances and loads are being transmitted to the 1C system installed at the mine.&nbsp;This allowed for the initial boost in productivity.<\/p>\n<p>However, RusCoal expects more as once the Karier system is fully deployed, productivity in shovels and dump trucks should rise by 15%, while equipment operating costs should come down by 8%. At the same time, the miner hopes for 5-10% reduction in fuel costs and up to 80% reduction of non-technological downtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Stepnoy Pit&nbsp;is located in Khakassia, in southern Russia, and it produces D grade coal from the Chernogorsk deposit in the Minusinsk basin. The mine comprises seven coal seams and uses 130- and 55-tonne BelAZ dump trucks as process vehicles. The pit has a capacity of 4.5 million tonnes of coal per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats on transportation volumes and downtime, as well as dump truck distances and loads are being proceeded in real-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133577,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133552\/revisions\/1133577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}