P&H MinePro have announced the order of the first AC drive P&H MinePro 4100XPC electric rope shovel for Australia.
To be delivered to Rio Tinto’s Hail Creek coal mine in Queensland, the AC drive P&H 4100XPC is a heavy duty electric rope shovel that provides a 108.9 tonne payload capacity specifically designed to operate in high production mines.
The new shovel is scheduled to walk off the pad in 2012.
Rio Tinto Coal Australia Managing Director Bill Champion said the new shovel will join two P&H 9020 draglines and the existing shovel, also a P&H 4100XPC, at the Hail Creek Mine.
“Hail Creek Mine put their first P&H machine, a 9020 dragline, to work in 2004,” Champion said.