Front end loaders

Flake Mica. Flake mica is mined from weathered and hard rock pegmatites, granodiorite, and schist and gneiss by conventional open-pit methods. In soft, residual material, dozers, shovels, scrapers, and front-end loaders are used to mine the ore. Often kaolin, quartz, and feldspar are recovered along with the mica (see also Clays Silicon compounds). 

Crushed Stone and Aggregate In-pit crushing is increasingly being used to reduce the rock to a size that can be handled by a conveyor system. In quarries with a long, steep haul, conveyors may be more economic than trucks. The primaiy crusher is located near the quariy face, where it can be suppRed by shovels, front-end loaders or trucks. The crusher may be fully mobile or semimobile. It can be of any type listed below. The choices depend on individual quariy economics, and are described by Faiilkner [Quairy Management and Products, 7 6), 159-168 (1980)]. 

Mobile equipment is often preferred to fixed types. Front-end loaders, scrapers, and bulldozers are used with increasing frequency, especially on projects of short duration or when capital investment must be limited. Front-end loaders are especially advantageous because of their ability to carry material as well as to plow or bulldoze it. 

Because of the railroad-car shortage that has persisted for many years, boxcars are often used for bulk materials. Lined with suitable materials to prevent contamination and with special bulkheads at each door, these cars are acceptable substitutes for covered hopper cars even though unloading is more difficult. Vacuum conveying wands are used to pick up the material, as are front-end-loader-type vehicles. 

Open storage pits for unprocessed wastes, storage bins and silos for processed wastes transfer equipment including front-end loaders, metal and rubber belt conveyors, vibratory conveyors with unprocessed wastes, pneumatic conveyors, and screw conveyors with processed wastes... 

To recondition the pots, the potliner is dug out and discarded Prior to discovery of the Spokane aquifer contamination, the procedure had been to remove the pot to an outdoor concrete slab where the pot was filled with water and allowed to soak for a few days to fracture and soften the cathode The contaminated water was presumably reused for soaking and not discharged to the industrial waste treatment system because of the cyanide content The pots were Jack-hammered and the potliner dumped on the slab The potliner was transfered by a front-end loader to an unprotected pile next to the slab ... 

The vats were constructed of precast concrete slabs. Each had a capacity of about 2600 ft (3). In service they were filled with crushed ore, pumped full of dilute sulfuric acid, held at ambient temperatures for about 10 days, drained, and cleaned of spent ore with a front-end loader. Unprotected concrete has a short service life in this use because of the corrosive action of the acid and the abrasive action of the ore and front loader. 

The MSW is discharged from 75-yard transfer trailers of 7-yard packer trucks from an elevated Trucking Module to the Tipping Floor, Front-end-loaders (FEL) move the MSW to storage or to picking areas. After picking to remove oversize bulky waste, including tires and other objectionable materials, the FEL pushes the MSW onto pan-conveyors which feed the plant. 

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