MACHINE GUIDANCE: Wenco wins contract with Polyus Gold in Siberia

VANCOUVER - The Krasnoyarsk Division of Polyus Gold has chosen Wenco International Mining Systems to supply its high precision machine guidance systems for shovels and drills at three mine sites in eastern Siberia, Russia.

VANCOUVER - The Krasnoyarsk Division of Polyus Gold has chosen Wenco International Mining Systems to supply its high precision machine guidance systems for shovels and drills at three mine sites in eastern Siberia, Russia.

Wenco, a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery, has provided the fleet management system (FMS) at Polyus's Olimpiada mine since 2008. Within the first year, shift productivity of shovels increased up to 12.27%, while shift productivity of trucks increased up to 10.47%. These successful results led to further FMS installations at the corporation's Titimukhta mine in 2009 and its Blagodatnoye mine in 2012. Together, these sites operate more than 150 mobile mining units across three open pits.

Polyus selected Wenco's BenchManager high precision on-board system  BenchManager uses GNSS positioning to precisely determine the shovel's orientation and dig limits, providing operators with accurate, real-time face positions and cut/fill information. It pairs with BenchView office software, which manages files and gives engineers real-time mining progress data to assist in planning.

Along with BenchManager, Wenco has also been contracted to provide its drill navigation guidance system to Blagodatnoye mine. This site operates several Atlas Copco DML/LP drills to handle the site's extensive drilling and blasting needs. The northern climactic conditions at this site require Polyus machine operators to rapidly and safely navigate their drills to target without lengthy field surveying.

BenchManager and drill navigation systems will be installed at Blagodatnoye mine by the end of 2015. For more information about Wenco International Mining Systems and its machine guidance systems, visit WencoMine.com

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