In-House Oil Analysis Lab Saves Gold Mine Millions in Downtime, Repair and Replacement Costs
In-House Oil Analysis Lab Saves Gold Mine Millions in Downtime, Repair and Replacement Costs
2 PagesA low-grade surface mining operation depends upon huge and expensive equipment such as Hitachi 5500 shovels and Caterpillar 793 haul trucks. Oil analysis is essential to identify problems so they can be corrected before they cause equipment to go down for major repairs. In the past, a multinational mining firm sent samples to an outside lab for analysis but the cost of this approach limited the number of samples that could be analyzed
