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a u g u s t / s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 www.resourceworld.com 57 LeFt: WipWare's generation 4 Solo system installed on a conveyor belt. photo courtesy of WipWare Inc. Bottom: Solo is a completely automated analysis instrument for measuring the size distribution of unconsolidated material on conveyor belts in real time without disrupting production. photo courtesy of WipWare Inc. device." WipWare software is available for Windows. The system is fully autonomous. Once the system is installed, no user-intervention is required. WipWare's automated technology is able to automatically output results to a mine's historian or control room configuration, and can trigger alarms or automated email alerts if mate- rial is out of spec. The company states that the system can improve SAG throughput, evaluate crusher performance, detect broken screens, and discover contamination. The system detects contamination by using advanced shade detection calcu- lations. WipWare is able to identify potential issues while the material is passing. WipWare designs and manufactures industry leading photoanalysis software and hardware that offers real-time analysis of materials in the field, laboratory, on-line pro- duction settings for underground and surface mining, quarries, aggregate production, forestry, coal industries. WipWare offers stationary and mobile systems for conveyors, haulage trucks and site-specific locations. WipWare's Photoanalysis systems have helped companies world-wide save millions of dollars by preventing equip- ment down-time, improving productivity, enhancing personnel health and safety and optimizing processes. The company states that their automated fragmen- tation photo analysis system is being used at Lafarge's Ravena quarry as a part of their ongoing drill, blast and primary crushing continuous process. WipWare's Reflex system at the Lafarge quarry has been a useful tool for monitoring and collecting raw data that is utilized to evaluate drill and blast performance. One of the examples of the measured gains achieved there, using WipWare's Reflex system as a blast/crush improvement toll, is a 20% increase in crusher productivity and a 12% reduction in crushed product cost with no change in drill and blast cost. WipWare has just launched the GIS enabled version of its software, allowing operations to use drone images to help identify areas requiring improvement in blasting. n phoenix Extreme Conveyor Belt Solutions by Kathrine Moore phoenix Conveyor Belts, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, is an international company with over 150 years' experience building mining equipment; it has been developing and fabricating steel-cord conveyor belts for more than 60 years. The company's systems hold several world records for conveyor belting including the longest belt and the strongest belts. The World's longest conveyor belt is in a vast plain in northeast Bangladesh at the Lafarge Surma cement factory. As the factory does not have its own source of limestone, the raw material must be sourced from a mine in India several kilometres to the north of the factory. Both countries came to a unique and unprecedented cross- border agreement that ensured a stable, ongoing limestone supply. Since transport by road or rail was not a viable option due to geogra- phy, extreme weather conditions and other environmental factors, it was decided, in 2000, to build a 17-km long conveyor, supported on a trestles, from the mine to the plant through extremely difficult terrain. The belt designed by Phoenix for this single flight conveyor is nearly 35 km long making it the longest conveyor belt in the world. It only has two drives, each at head (two motors) and tail (one motor), and no intermediate drives. The world's strongest aboveground conveyor belt is in operation at the Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile. Ore from the mine, located in the Andes at an elevation of 3,200 metres, is transported by con- veyor to the mill 1,300 metres below. The Phoenocord St 7800 from Phoenix Conveyor Belt System conveys some 8,700 tons of copper ore an hour from the mine to the processing facilities 13 km away. The Phoenocord St 7800 has a breaking force of 8,500 Newtons per millimetre belt width. But what good is the best belt if the splices do not hold up? For that reason, the belt is also equipped with the world's strongest and longest splices which can withstand the same loads as the belt. Supplier Caucho Técnica fabricated the 78 splices in 100 days, assisted by Phoenix installation engineers. The world's strongest underground conveyor belt in use is a Phoenocord St 7500. The 8,000-metre-long steel cable conveyor belt from Phoenix Conveyor Belt Systems is used in the Prosper II coal mine in Bottrop, Germany. The company states that this belt is unique not only because of its breaking load but also because it con- veys material simultaneously on both sides and in both directions. It transports the coal to the surface from a depth of 800 metres while at the same time returning stones that remain from the washing process back