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5 september 2024
The next batch of BELAZ-7513 series quarry dump trucks – seven vehicles with a load capacity of 130 tons – has arrived at the industrial site of JSC «Olkon» in the Murmansk Region. The new equipment will help miners in fulfilling the production program for iron ore mining.
At Olkon, in the realities of the Arctic, they rely on 130-ton BELAZ dump trucks in their special northern configuration, which have long proven themselves over the years of successful operation. Here, in the quarries of the Olenegorsk Mining and Processing Plant, Belarusian heavy-duty trucks are valued for it’s high operational performance, ensuring reliable transportation of rock mass under the most difficult weather conditions of the Kola Peninsula. To facilitate engine starting and its stable operation at low temperatures, the Belarusian giants are equipped with pre-starting engine fluid heating systems, and are also equipped with other additional options.
Once put into operation, the new equipment will increase the efficiency of the loading and transport complex of Russia's northernmost iron ore concentrate producer, reduce operating costs and the cost of the final product.
It should be noted that the current supply of seven dump trucks to JSC Olkon is not the first in 2024. In the spring, the company's fleet of 130-ton BELAZ trucks was replenished with four vehicles of the same lifting capacity.
This year, Olenegorsk Mining and Processing Plant celebrates its 75th anniversary, and in honor of this event, for the first time, the plant has decided to assign honorary names of the discoverers of the deposit and honored employees of the enterprise to the new BELAZ dump trucks.
– “We are starting a very nice tradition – naming machines after our employees, because we must remember those who started working here in very harsh conditions... I thank the BELAZ company, with whom we implemented this project together, and I hope for further mutually beneficial cooperation,” emphasized Nikolai Seleznev, General Director of Olkon, in his speech at the ceremony.
Photo VK page "Olkon"
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