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The modern mining industry is typified by huge open cast mines where vast quantities
of ore are extracted and then processed. Usually the ore is passed through a succession
of grinding mills crushing the ore into small fragments for later processing.
Machinery that spends its life crushing rock has to be tough and very resistant to constant wear and abrasion. Most steels will quickly fall apart under the continual battering but steels with a high HB (or Brinnell hardness) are better able to withstand the day to day wear on them. This extends the working life of the machinery and thus reduces its lifetime cost.
Apart from the machinery you also find 400HB and 500H steel used in the various pieces of mobile plant at a mine – the excavators, bulldozers and dump trucks. The parts that come into contact with lots of rock will invariably be resistant to wear in some way – and one of the ways is with a high HB steel.
Oakley Steel supplies wear resistant steel at 400HB and 500HB grades and you can find more details here.
Quality steel supplied for:
oil & gas, petrochemical & process,construction & shipbuilding industries
Mining | Construction | Shipbuilding
