Boggabri Mine Truck 2 Loading for first time
Crushing System Truck Loading
Crushing System Web Cam - Dump Station
Crushing System Web Cam - Crusher & Stockpile Area
Crushing System Web Cam - Bin Top
Boggabri Mine - We Are 15km From Boggabri
Boggabri Mine Truck Two Loading for first time
Boggabri Mine Truck Two ready to load for first time
Boggabri Mine First Truck ready for first load
Take Up Counterweight Pigsty (belt break safety stop)
Trestle T5 Goes In
Sizer Undressed and ready for action
Sampler Tramp Sweep Arm Commissioning
ROM Pad Under Construction, Bit Too Close!
Retaining Wall, Level 3
Primary Breaker in position, Drive Head
Phil Caldwell: "So, Where's This Bit then???"
Overall View From Stockpile
Overall View From Bin Top
Overall View From Approach Side
Mechanically Complete Conveyor
Load Out Conveyor Heading For Heaven
Boggabri Mine Loading First Truck, 2
Boggabri Mine Loading First Truck, 1
Hopper Installation, Right Side
Hopper Installation, Left Side
Gantry G1 Installation
Boggabri Mine First Load Of Coal Goes In
First Coal Produced Boggabri Mine Crushing System
FEL Slab Construction
FEL Driver View Of Dump Hopper
Feeder Hydraulic Power Pack, Rear View
Feeder Hydraulic Power Pack
Feeder Breaker Despatch, Rutherford
Feeder Breaker Arrives
East Side Bin Footing Steel Tying
Earthing Grid Installation
Crushing System Web Cam - Dump Station
Dump Station Pier Caps And Retaining Wall Slab
Dump Station Panorama
Dump Station Structure, Initial Assembly
Dump Station Initial Assembly, Right Side
Dump Station Initial Assembly, Left Side
Dump Hopper, Left Side View
Crushing System After 1.1mt - Bin & Truck Loader
Crushing System After 1.1mt - Conveyor
Crushing System After 1.1mt - Crushing Station
Crushing System After 1.1mt - Bin & Conveyor
Crushing Station Structure Side View
Crushing Station Final Assy
Crushing Station Structure Front View
Conveyor Drive Showing Shrink Disc Mount
Conveyor Carry Idlers Installed
Phil Inspects Bulk Earthworks, now Underway
Feeder Breaker Drive
Bin From Ground Level, nearly ready to load
Bin Erection 4
Bin Erection 3
Bin Erection 2
Bin Erection 1
Belt Tracking In Progress
Overall Arrgt From Bin End
Boggabri Mine World Coal Magazine Feature ROM Coal Crushing Auto-Loadout System at Idemitsu Boggabri Coal Mine
for $/t service contract (Design and Construct Project)
Greenfield Design construct project for the supply and installation of a primary and tertiary crushing station to suit a Cat 988/990 FEL, an automatic 500t Bisalloy lined load-out bin for 125t+ B-Double truck operation, a conveyor with coal scan, sampling and automated tramp metal removal systems, and associated electricals. Set up $/t contract.
Key Benefits
- Innovative technical and operational self-recovery features for robust one man full system operation.
- Automated 125t+ B-Double truck fast filling multiple redundancy fail safe system.
- Considerable (50%) reserve above required 300t/hr capacity.
- Optimised expanded mass flow 500t bin for maximum capacity with best bin wall / wear liner life.
- Extremely reliable operation.
- Compact functional economical system. The mine loves it!
- Economical system design with features to minimise future washery upgrade costs.
- 24 week program delivery despite an unusually complex project environment.
- Facility reputedly the best of its kind in the country (and well beyond! – click to see World Coal extract).
Watch 1.5 minute video of 135t Truck Fully Loading (click here to view on YouTube)
or (click to view an early side shot composite during proving trials)
See Inside McLanahan Feeder Breaker During Pre-Delivery Test via a 2 min video (click here to view on YouTube)
Project Summary sheet

(Click image for .pdf Summary sheet)