Dragline has reached maturity: the largest walking excavator celebrates 20 years of work at the Tulunsky open-pit mine En+
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The ESh 40/100 walking excavator, owned by the Vostsibugol company (manages the coal assets of the En+ energy and metallurgical holding), left the factory exactly 20 years ago. Over the past years, he has extracted 115 million tons of rock from the Tulunsky Vostsibugol open-pit mine, which is comparable in volume to 23 dams of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station or 5 million BelAZ dump trucks.
Dragline – a special name for the machine – was released by Uralmash under number 1 and became the largest excavator in Russia at the time of commissioning. The body of the mining machine is 14 meters high, and the highest point of the boom is at the level of a twenty-story building or 55 meters.
“The ESh 40/100 excavator, despite its considerable age, shows high reliability and, with proper maintenance, will last for many years,” said Evgeny Masternak, General Director of Vostsibugol. “Mining is a technologically advanced modern production, where the best available technologies are used, processes are digitized and automated, which means that the excavator will demonstrate increasing efficiency.”
Today, the enterprises of the Vostsibugol company use 30 walking excavators at open-pit mines in Cheremkhovo, Tulun, Ust-Ilimsk, as well as in the Republic of Tyva.
Photo: En+ press service
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