World biggest mobile crushing plant sold by Metso to Kazakhstan

Metso will supply world's biggest fully mobile, track-mounted crushing plant to Altay Polimetally LLP copper mine in Kazakhstan.Google-built machine learns to find cats on the Internet. The contract also includes large mobile feeding and conveying systems to move the crushed copper ore for further processing, and installation supervision and training. The complete value of the order exceeds EUR 11 million.

"We can judge the Altay Polimetally as a significant contract of an interesting, growing market area. Today, open pit mines are studying globally the possibility to save costs and environment at primary crushing and conveying stages by decreasing on-site ore trucking. With Metso's large scale, fully mobile equipment, we can well meet this customer demand," comments Jorma Kempas, Business manager, In-pit crushing solutions from Metso.

The giant mobile jaw plant will be used at primary crushing stage at Altay Polimetally's  new open pit mine, situated in the Karagandy region. Metso's mobile crushing equipment to Kazakhstan will be delivered within the last quarter of 2013. The order is included in Mining and Construction's second quarter 2012 orders received.The almost 400 ton weighing Lokotrack LT200 - biggest ever built - is the key part of the system. The unit processes copper ore with a nominal capacity of 2500 tons per hour.  The complete mobile system weighs over 800 tons, though can be moved easily along the mine face.