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Resources / Mining and Haulage Road Stabilisation

Smart industries explore every means of reducing costs or increasing production. Dealing with poor haulage roads is one avenue where small outlays can return great improvements. Cleaner, safer roads can be the norm using Dartmix, a modern industrial product designed and manufactured in Australia for effective roadway stabilisation and dust control.

The current situation

Spraying water on unsealed roads is a costly temporary solution for the dust problem. In a wet roadbase, dynamic pressure from passing vehicle tyres pumps fines to the surface. Once drying occurs, traffic grinds the fines into dust, and the road is worse than before.
Yet many Australian mines and transport operations use water sprays, and pay perhaps $80,000 per month or $960,000 annually to “enjoy” the following dubious outcomes:

Dust

  • Reduced visibility
  • Inhalation harm
  • Workplace contamination

Conventional dust control program

  • Requires water truck or water sprays
  • Road deterioration due to sprayed water or wet weather
  • Mud-rutting, potholes, collapse of soft road verges, blocked drains, wide drains

Wet road issues

  • Poor traction, slippery surfaces

Personnel injury

  • Jolting injury risk to operators
  • Increased hazards to personnel and equipment (vehicles out of control, impacts with walls in
    underground situations)

Road maintenance program

  • Grader essential. Frequent grading required, through to full reconstruction

Mobile equipment costs

  • Tyre premature aging, wear, damage (problems linked to grader non-availability)
  • Maintenance (wear and tear, e.g. suspension, hydraulics)
  • Fuel usage increased
  • Mobile equipment downtime

Productivity delays

  • Surface dust or mud causing tyre drag
  • Slower travelling speeds or cycle times
  • Decline or access roads blocked or unserviceable

* A better solution!

Australian eco-friendly Dartmix road stabilisation technology has developed to deal effectively with both
the dust and the road surface problem. Mining and transport industries will greatly appreciate the benefits
and savings.

Dartmix will deliver these outcomes:

Road condition

  • A hard road surface, resists developing potholes, ruts, soft edges
  • Resists deterioration due to water
  • Almost no dust originating from the road
  • Easily repaired to deal with wear, deterioration, unintentional damage etc

Personnel safety

  • Worker-friendly healthy low-dust environment
  • Reduced risk of vehicle operator injury due to jolting (back, neck)
  • All-weather surface for better vehicle safety (better traction)

Less road maintenance

  • Eliminated dust control works (sprays, water truck)
  • Increased grader availability for other roads
  • Road maintenance resources, effort and costs decreased

Mobile equipment costs

  • More economical fuel usage (saving 5%+)
  • Less equipment damage or wear and tear
  • Better tyre life (run-outs are normal, not exceptional), fewer punctures, cuts, impacts, bead failures.

Productivity improvements

  • Improved productivity from faster cycle times, minimal road-related downtime, reduced rolling drag on tyres
  • Ramps, inclines, declines remain usable 24/7
  • Road works can be done while still allowing traffic flow – no need to close roads.

Justification Scenario

Please contact us to request a copy of an “Underground Road Stabilisation & Dust Suppression Scenario”
which discusses:

  • The real costs of poor road issues for an underground mine scenario
  • The hierarchy of risk management controls applied to road problems
  • The potential costs and benefits of road stabilisation
  • Costing and payback period data

Download Road Stabilisation as

Reasons to Use DARTmiX

Improving Tyre Life for Mining Haul Roads