FLEETS

Compelling case for electric underground

HAD IGO been planning its Nova underground nickel-copper-cobalt mine in 2021 it might well have gone for electric instead of diesel equipment.

The Nova mill could have been fed by ore mined by a fully electric fleet.

The Nova mill could have been fed by ore mined by a fully electric fleet.

Speaking at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy's Underground Operators Conference 2021 Nova general manager Chris Farr said a study conducted to a pre-feasibility level at the mine found...

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