Modern Mining March 2015

SURFACE MINING CONTRACTING

Liviero moves into drill and blast M ulti-disciplinary construction group Liviero has add- ed a new service offering to its capabilities. Liviero Drill & Blast (Pty) Ltd is a new company that has been launched to enable Liviero to offer its clients drilling and blast- ing services that meet the group’s high standards in safety and quality, says Group CEO Neil Cloete. It rounds off Liviero Min- ing’s opencast business and will add exceptional value for cli- ents, he notes. Johan Pieterse is the director at the helm of Liviero Drill & Blast. He has a career in drilling and blasting that spans more than 20 years and was previously CEO of JEF Drill and Blast. Liviero’s opencast mining business (see also page 16) has grown substantially since it was launched five years ago. Today, the operation moves more than 35 million m 3 of material a year. “All blasting was previously contracted out of the Liviero Group, so the next logical step was to investigate the feasibility of start- ing a Liviero company to undertake the drilling and blasting in-house,” explains Cloete. “This investigation turned out to be very positive, and prompted Liviero to embark on the new ven- ture as soon as possible.” Liviero Drill & Blast’s short-term strategy is to manage the drilling and blasting operations on all Liviero Mining’s current contracts, and those in the pipeline. The company will expand this customer base in the future, Pieterse says. Liviero Drill & Blast is based in Middelburg. “We will develop the company into a sustainable, respected and proud brand that will add a new value proposition to the Liviero Group’s existing expertise,” Cloete concludes.  Light tower selected by mining contractor after ‘shoot-out’ C hicago Pneumatic’s CPLT M10 light tower has been cho- sen by opencast mining contractor Diesel Power Open Cast Mining following a live demonstration in which the unit reportedly outperformed models from other suppliers. Chicago Pneumatic, represented by its authorised South African distributor, United Sales & Service (USS), demonstrated the features, effectiveness and benefits of the CPLT M10 through a day-night demonstration with the results closely monitored by Diesel Power’s technical staff. Each manufacturer was required to demonstrate the ease of assembly and stability of the light tower. With safety being a pri- ority in all mining environments, Diesel Power required the light tower to be safe, stable and easy to position. With its quick and simple-to-deploy manually winched mast, safe locking mech- anism and robust 819 kg base stabilised by its wide outrigger footprint of 3,4 x 2,8 m, the CPLT M10 met these requirements. The night demonstration included Diesel Power indepen- dently measuring the lux results. The CPLT M10 outshone its rivals with 110 lux at 50 m, 21 lux at 100 m and 3 lux at 150 m. All 10 CPLT M10 light towers purchased by Diesel Power are currently in place at one of its copper mine operations in Botswana. 

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