Mobile Crushing and Screening Plants for Quarrying and Mining

Mobile crushing equipment can not only replace stationary systems – it can also eliminate the use of haulers and reduce staffing.

The current trend in quarrying is targeting broadly towards mobile systems and solutions. Current may be an exaggeration, as mobile tracked crushing plants that work at the rock face have been around for 20 years, but the quarrying and mining businesses doesn’t like to rush into things, and only now are mobile crushers challenging stationary crushing plants.

Stationary primary crushers, as their name suggests, are permanently located in one site, often some distance from the quarry or mine work face, and are serviced with rock/ore by a system of attendant off-highway haulers. Although ef ective, one issue with this approach is the cost of the haulage – which can represent more than half of all costs (drilling, blasting, loading, crushing etc).

With a continual need to increase efficiency and reduce costs, mine and quarry owners have, rightly, seen haulage as an area where cost reductions can be made. These savings have been achieved by moving the fixed primary crusher into the quarry/pit – thereby reducing the haul distance – and replacing older smaller haulers with larger, newer ones. But this is, at best, only a halfway measure – why not eliminate the haul (and the haulers) altogether? Mobile crushing equipment allows this to happen.

In over 20 years of operations, Formats has provided crushing solutions to an immensely broad range of customers. As a result, we’ve certainly learned a few things along the way when it comes to identifying what works best and what doesn’t. Our mobile crushing plant have been engineered to suit an incredibly diverse spectrum of applications in the mining and aggregates industries. And because our engineers have been busy designing systems for customers more than a century, it’s more than likely that Formats has the system that’s just right for application inquestion.