Steve,

That's not planned: as you know, company Managers are generally reluctant to have their personnel interviewed without a proper authorization and supervision from Human Resources. And we haven't been able to get one, sorry.

Today, our photographer is invited to take part to the official opening of LorraMine brand new headquarters.

- The Management building:



- One of the mine personnel lockers room:



- The main entry security gate:



To be continued.
Guy

The Terex 33-19 Titan was shipped from Canada and fully repainted. It is now standing as the emblem of the French mine (*).

The real unit in Sparwood (British Columbia - Canada): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terex_33-19_%22Titan%22



While on site, our photographer took the opportunity to test his new camera (without interviewing anyone, I promize!):







Note(*): the model was in fact bought by Denis from another French collector getting rid of all his mining models to concentrate on craneage.

Regards.
Guy

Good luck! While the photographer is in LorraMine, a new Liebherr mining dumper passes through the gate:







To be continued.
Guy

The huge convoy stops in front of the maintenance workshop where the dumper will be unloaded:







To be continued.
Guy

Guy great pictures of the Liebherr end dump delivery. Also you don’t know anybody in upper management at the mine you could contact to get you interviews with some operators. Maybe we could have Quinella try he seems to know everybody.
Steve

The Maintenance Leader does not want to restrict access to the workshop during unloading and rig-up operations of the new dumper: I'm afraid that it may take some time to agree on another suitable location!
So, while they discuss, let's move to the quarry front and have a look at this Komatsu wheeled loader, recently delivered to the mine:





To be continued.
Guy

Close to the crushing building, which is these days nearly 100% completed, LorraMine have recently put in operation their new washing bay:







To be continued.
Guy

We leave the washing bay as it seems that some interesting activity is taking place not far:



A little further down, a heavy haulage operation is being prepared:



To be continued (tomorrow).

Regards.
Guy

Claus,

Is that the one you mean?



I haven't seen a lot of pictures of it in the French topic but I'll try to find more.

Regards.
Guy

We asked the mine Operations Manager who told us that one of their Liebherr 9800 mining excavator was to be moved to another quarry front, remote from LorraMine main site.
We've asked our photographer to follow the entire operation:





A 2x20-line SPMT has been mobilized for the move. It is brought in, behind a conventional heavy tow truck, with all ancillary items required for the move, with no power packs in place:





To be continued.
Guy