{"id":7938,"date":"2023-09-06T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:24:10","slug":"first-lokotrack-lt200hps-with-a-hanging-screen-wins-the-day-for-zizwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/first-lokotrack-lt200hps-with-a-hanging-screen-wins-the-day-for-zizwe\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST LOKOTRACK LT200HPS WITH A HANGING SCREEN WINS THE DAY FOR ZIZWE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A newly acquired Metso Lokotrack\u00ae LT200HPS™ is winning the day for a leading South African mining contractor, Zizwe Opencast Mining, at one of its strategic chrome mining projects in Steelpoort, Limpopo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With productivity high on the agenda in a highly abrasive chrome-processing application, a three-machine train of Metso mobiles \u2013 comprising a Lokotrack\u00ae LT120™ jaw crusher, a Nordtrack\u00ae S2.11 scalping screen and a Lokotrack\u00ae LT200HPS™ cone crusher \u2013 is making light work of the 200 tonnes per hour (tph) production target.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe de Beer, Crushing and Screening Plant Manager at Zizwe Opencast Mining, has been impressed in particular by the new Lokotrack\u00ae LT200HPS™ cone crusher, equipped with a hanging screen. By featuring a detachable screen and return conveyor on one tracked chassis, he says, the LT200HPS is basically \u2018two machines in one\u2019, thus eliminating double-handling on site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe fact that the LT200HPS™does the job for two machines was central to our purchasing decision. It features a detachable screen and return conveyor which guides screened oversize material back to the cone crusher. It is essentially a cone crusher, a screen and a conveyor on one tracked chassis,\u201d says De Beer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshen Achary, Sales Engineer at Pilot Crushtec, explains that Zizwe Opencast Mining was looking for a single unit that could do the job of two machines. \u201cTraditionally, we have always brought the LT200HP™ in a standard configuration. Because cone crushers by their nature are not 100% efficient, the added benefit of having a screen post the crushing chamber is that it allows for recirculation of any oversize material back to the cone crusher,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, explains Achary, eliminates the need for another machine to work in closed circuit with the cone crusher. Having a single machine doing the job of two machines offers significant cost benefits for the customer. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cApart from the obvious capital cost benefit, having the cone and screen on a single chassis means that the machine is powered by a single engine, making one less machine to maintain. Having a closed loop on a single chassis also makes it easy to transport the machine between sites,\u201d concludes Achary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francois Marais, Sales and Marketing Director at Pilot Crushtec, explains that the LT200HP™ now comes in three different configurations. Apart from the standard cone crusher configuration, it is now available with a pre-screen called the HPX™, which is placed just before the crushing chamber or alternatively with an overhanging screen called the HPS™, located post the crushing chamber.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn traditional operations, you would need two machines \u2013 a cone crusher and a screen \u2013 to do the same job done by this single machine. In addition, you would probably have to deploy a minimum of two to three conveyor belts to recirculate oversize material from the screen back to the cone crusher,\u201d concludes Marais. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading mining contractor, Zizwe Opencast Mining has taken delivery of the first Metso Lokotrack\u00ae LT200HPS™ supplied by Pilot Crushtec with a hanging screen in southern Africa. The machine has been deployed on a chrome mine in Steelpoort, Limpopo, South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-client-focus","tag-pilot-crushtec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}