Increase digitalization and intelligent construction, mining sites to achieve the mine into a "gold mine"

Copper smelting enterprises are producing red-hot, so how about the upstream mining situation? To see the reporter's report.

　　Located in the city of Dexing, Jiangxi Province, this copper mine is a very large open-pit copper mine, the reporter saw several electric shovels are loaded ore to the electric wheel, mining site director Xie Wenbo told reporters that after the beginning of the year, the mining site has been maintaining the momentum of high productivity and efficiency, a number of indicators are more than planned to complete.

　　Xie Wenbo, director of a copper mine in Dexing, Jiangxi: In January, the total amount of ore stripped from the mine was 10 million tons, the highest level in the past five years.

　　The reporter noticed that the staff in the central control room issued an automatic driving command, a few kilometers away from the electric wheel will immediately enter the driverless mode, the copper mine's electric wheel driverless project, is the key to the construction of digital mine.

　　Xie Wenbo, director of a copper mining site in Dexing, Jiangxi province, said that the mining vehicle with a capacity of more than 200 tons can complete the whole process of loading, transporting and unloading independently. The successful trial of this project will accumulate valuable experience for us to promote the unmanned driving of the whole process of mining and further enhance the intrinsic safety level of "less people, no one" in mines.

　　Yulong Copper Mine, another copper mine located in the Changdu region of the Tibet Autonomous Region, is the highest-grade open-pit copper mine in China. By the end of 2022, the retained copper metal reserves reached 5,751,600 tons. After the start of the year, the local temperature remains cold, and the company has made sufficient preparations to guarantee positive production mining in the open pit in winter.

　　Fan Wentao, chairman of a copper company in Tibet: After the Spring Festival, we took a series of winter production safety measures to strengthen the frequency of equipment overhaul and maintenance to ensure the normal supply of ore in extreme weather. Compared with the past, the "intelligent mine" construction is put into operation to effectively improve the mine supply index.

　　Ltd. Chairman Liang Yanbo: The company has a copper ore processing capacity of 22.3 million tons per year, and the mines are currently producing at full capacity.

　　The reporter also learned in the interview, copper prices, for some of the copper companies have their own mines in response to market price fluctuations will have more advantages.

　　A copper company in Qinghai general manager Zhou Xuan: 70% of our main source of raw materials is relying on its own mines, our production of stable operation has a great guarantee.

　　Fan Xiaohui, deputy general manager of the futures department of the trading division of a copper company in Jiangxi, China: the processing fees of the enterprise is a relatively limited source of profit, but with the rise in asset prices, the benefits that can be produced from the mine is the most core source of profit.

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