To test the hypothesis that very short delay time could improve fragmentation, a series of field tests have been performed at the Aitik open pit mine by Petropoulos et al. 4 A total number of six ...

Aitik Mine in Norrbotten, was the largest surface mine in Sweden, producing approximately 41.77 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) and primarily produced copper (79.99 thousand tonnes) in 2021. The Aitik Mine is owned by Boliden AB. The second largest surface mine with an estimated 6.1 mmtpa of ROM, was the Vikan Kross …

COPENHAGEN, Nov 29 (Reuters) Swedish mining group Boliden BOL.ST on Wednesday said throughput of copper ore in one of the mills at its Aitik mine would be lower than expected in the fourth quarter ...

Aitik Copper Mine, Sweden. in Europe, Projects. Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near Gallivare, northern Sweden, the low …

Custom solution wanted. As a key priority to develop profitability, Boliden Aitik decided to raise efficiency and productivity by setting a new production goal of 45 million tonnes – a production …

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. ...

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Boliden's Board of Directors approved today an investment of SEK 5.2 billion in expanding operations at the Aitik copper mine outside Gällivare. The investment will …

Boliden Group's Aitik copper mine in Sweden, founded in 1968 and located approximately 100 km north of the Arctic Circle near the town of Gällivare, has long maintained a distinctive record in the industry. This low-grade asset, at 450 meters deep, is one of the planet's lowest cost and most productive mines.

Aitik, just south of Gällivare in northern Sweden, is Sweden's largest open-pit coppermine. Ore is mined here around the clock from chalcopyrite that contains copper, gold and silver. 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 alone are 4 ...

Swedish mining group Boliden BOL on Wednesday said throughput of copper ore in one of the mills at its Aitik mine would be lower than expected in the fourth quarter due to an unplanned maintenance stop and unfavourable weather conditions.. The company now expects Aitik's fourth quarter throughput of copper ore to be about 9 …

At full capacity, the mine is capable of processing about 100,000 t/d of ore. The mining side of the operation was described in detail in the March 2008 article. The main change since then is that Aitik, in a major change of technology is starting to take delivery of a fleet of 795F AC trucks. In other words, it is moving from

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. Operations include mining for copper, …

SITE DESCRIPTION The Aitik site located near Gallivare in the north of Sweden, operated by Boliden Mineral AB, is currently Europe's largest copper mine (Fig. 1). The waste rock is disposed close to the open pit on an area extending 400 ha, whereas the mill tailings are pumped to an impoundment in a nearby valley.

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. https://

April 14, 2020. To increase productivity, efficiency, and safety in the Aitik copper mine, Boliden went the automation route. The fleet of Pit Vipers will be remotely controlled by operators. Swedish mining and smelting company Boliden plans to raise the production quota in the Swedish open-pit copper mine Aitik to 45 million metric tons for 2020.

KiD2 is direct loaded by the mine's fleet of 310 t 793C, 793D and now also 345 t 795F AC trolley assist trucks. KiD2 is designed to handle large volumes of rock being continuously delivered …

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 …

The electric transport route will be in operation in the autumn of 2018. Peter Palo, project manager for the system installation in Aitik, said: "To manage the challenges of building the new infrastructure in the mine without interfering with running production or put safety at risk is critical.

Learn more about Aitik, Europe's first open pit mine with automated trucks and electrified transport, in this fact sheet from Boliden, a leading metals company.

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Swedish metals company Boliden has introduced an Autonomous Hauling System, the Frontrunner, on 11 haul trucks in the Aitik copper mine for a total investment of 218 million SEK ($25.43 million). The company said the system will be rolled out and fully implemented during 2024; it will be the first such system in the EU.

2 Aitik Mine 2.1 Overview Aitik mine is located about 60 km north of the Arctic Circle in Northern Sweden, 20 km outside the municipality of Gällivare. The mine is owned and operated by the Swedish mining company Boliden Minerals AB. The mine has a low grade mineralisation with about 0.28 percent copper, 0.2 gm of gold/tonne and 2 gm of

Aitik is a Palaeoproterozoic porphyry Cu-Au-Ag deposit, mined as open pit mine consisting of two active pits: Salmijärvi and Aitik. There are also plans to start a third …

Swedish mining company Boliden is expanding the electrified trolley system that was in pilot mode at its Aitik mine in Northern Sweden. Boliden will spend nearly US$31 million to: Expand the electric trolley line at Aitik of 700 meters by another three kilometers; Convert an additional ten diesel trucks to electric use at Aitik

DOI: 10.1016/0883-2927(94)90020-5 Corpus ID: 129010470; Kinetic modelling of geochemical processes at the Aitik mining waste rock site in northern Sweden @article{Strmberg1994KineticMO, title={Kinetic modelling of geochemical processes at the Aitik mining waste rock site in northern Sweden}, author={Bo Str{"o}mberg and Steven …

For Aitik, this comes in the form of a further three kilometres of electric trolley line and another 10 trucks converted for this use. The company expects the plant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by 15% over the life of mine. At Kevitsa, Boliden is converting 13 mining trucks and building a 1.8km-long electric trolley …

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. It is the ...

Boliden Group's Aitik copper mine in Sweden, founded in 1968 and located approximately 100 km north of the Arctic Circle near the town of Gällivare, has long maintained a …

Global Mining Review, Friday, 15 April 2022 09:00. Advertisement. Boliden's ongoing geotechnical investigations in Aitik show the need to eventually …

The local mine geology at Aitik (Fig. 3.41b) is divided into three main parts: the hanging wall; the main ore zone dipping 40°to the west; and the footwall complex (Wanhainen et al. 2003;. The ...

Request PDF | Coupled chemistry and transport modelling of sulphidic waste rock dumps at the Aitik mine site, Sweden | The recently developed geochemical modelling code, SULFIDOX, has been applied ...

The Aitik Cu mine is located near Gällivare in Norrbotten, northern Sweden (Fig. 1).The mine, operated by Boliden Mineral AB, is the largest Cu mine in Europe, producing 20–30 × 10 6 tonnes of waste rock every year. Waste rock dumps are currently up to around 60 m in height and cover a large area (Fig. 2).The waste rock contains …

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. The investments, to be made mainly during 2020-2021, come on top of the money invested in a two-year trolley …

The subject of this thesis is the utilisation of measurement while drilling to optimise blasting in large open pit mines. In Boliden´s open pit mine, Aitik drilling and blasting is a substantial pa … Expand. 3. Save. A review of image analysis techniques for measuring blast fragmentation.

ghout Aitik, provide OLC-specific functionality such as load sharing, soft start under all load conditions, various braking and stop functions, and more. 2. Substation and harmonic filter Mining is an energy-intensive activity, and the Aitik expansion project has required the construction of an additional power line to the site.