"
Highwall Mobile and Personal serve to complement the
Highwall Enterprise solution," said Rich Swier, CEO of
Highwall Technologies.
The rock recognition facility is used to identify areas of hard digging, allowing better blasting of the
highwall. Better toe-loading of the holes has yielded better fragmentation.
Highwall seeps can also act as sources of acid mine drainage.
Since 2007, there have been 20 fatal accidents in surface coal and metal and nonmetal mines involving bulldozer operators and haul truck drivers who traveled over the edge of the
highwall or dump point.
NC Machinery assumed responsibility for the sales, marketing, and product support of the expanded Cat mining products, which include draglines, unit rig mining trucks, room and pillar and longwall equipment, electric rope and hydraulic shovels,
highwall miners, drills, belt systems, and various other lines of support equipment.
Ken Goldberg of
Highwall Technologies and his partners in the Sarasota start-up company are banking that their
Highwall Sentinel network appliance will lead the defense against wireless intruders.
proposed to extend and steepen the
highwall in the northwest sector of the pit to a height of 305 m, with the additional mining of 11.8 Mt of ore.