LOAD & HAUL
HEAVY-DUTY HAULING
Case study shows how advanced haulers are excelling at Indonesian nickel mine
Hillcon’s operators like the visibility and comfort that the RA40 provides
to assist in its procurement. Enter the Rokbak RA40. On an island on the edge of the Pacifi c
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Ocean, 2000km north-east of Java, a trio of Rokbak RA40s operate across a 45,065-hectare mining site. At this remote location in North Maluku, Indonesia, the Rokbak articulated haulers operate up and down steep inclines, through mud, dirt, grit and gravel, for close to 24 hours a day, and all in 30°C heat and at the mercy of the Southeast Asian elements. Required to move around 450
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hen the mineral you’re helping to excavate is notoriously indestructible, you need the right, robust and reliable hauler
tonnes of biomass and quarry materials in a single day, each RA40 will record approximately 6,000 operating hours per year. T e haulers are tasked with removing overburden and providing mine development support for the acquisition of high-demand nickel, the harder- than-iron metal used in some form in practically every aspect of day-to-day life. Every full-capacity payload sees each RA40 transport overburden two- kilometres to a project access road and biomass dump for disposal. Nickel is found everywhere. It’s in coins and turbine blades, in stainless steel and kitchenware, and in mobile phones, laptop computers and television
sets. T e fi fth-most common element on the planet, nickel sulphides develop in environments through the spreading of tectonic plates in the Earth’s crust and core. Corrosive resistant, strong at both high and low temperatures, durable and able to be utilised in a multitude of ways, nickel’s MO could well be strapped to the side of a Rokbak.
TRUSTED PARTNERS PT Hillcon is one of the most signifi cant names in the construction, mining, property and heavy equipment industries in Indonesia. Since its beginnings in 1995, the company has completed hundreds of projects across the archipelago in coal and
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