14 Best Jeweler Loupes

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Cat® Longwall Mining Systems

Caterpillar provides the underground mining industry with safe, reliable, and highly productive equipment for longwall operations. The customized longwall mining systems include high-capacity roof support systems for seams from 0.6 to 6 m (1.80 — 15.42 ft), programmable mining controls, fully automated plow systems, high-horsepower shearers, and armored face conveyors with intelligent CST drive systems.…

Up Close with the Cat® AD22 Underground Articulated Truck

The Cat® AD22 (Cat.com/AD22) may be our smallest underground articulated truck, but it’s a powerful tool for narrow vein mining. Designed and built on the success of its larger product family siblings, you can expect the same long-term reliability and durability from the AD22 you’ve come to associate with Cat underground mining products. Source

How Mineral Magnetism Influence The Magnetic Separation Process

The concept of magnetic separation Magnetic separation is a beneficiation method that uses the difference of mineral magnetism to separate different minerals in a non-uniform magnetic field. The magnetic separation method is usually used for the beneficiation of metal ores. The use of magnetic separation for non-metallic minerals is to remove magnetic impurities from non-metallic…

See the New Cat® R1700 Underground Loader

Representing the very best technology and engineering experience Caterpillar has to offer, the R1700 is Caterpillar’s new flagship LHD for underground mining. A clean sheet redesign that generated 24 new patents, the result is a strong, well-balanced, high-performing machine designed to add value to the customer’s business. Source