Belarus’ BelAZ heavy-duty truck manufacturer (Zhodino, Minsk region) has designed the MoAZ-65010 dump truck for subsurface mining. The compact dump truck with a 15-ton load capacity has been custom-made for Russia’s OAO Kombinat KMAruda.
BelAZ will ship the new truck to the customer in early 2017 for acceptance tests.
The truck is 2.1 meters wide so it can be used in mines with a cross-section of 9 square meters.
MoAZ-65010 dump truck will have an open cabin, but a closed cabinet with a heater and air conditioning is also possible.
The truck is equipped with a Cummins QSB6.7 engine (164/220 kW/hp) with liquid cooling. The vehicle is certified for subsurface operations (MSHA).
The Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) was set up in 1958. It is one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles for open cast mines and building significant hydroengineering objects.
The company assembles over 200 models of mine trucks with the carrying capacity ranging from 30 to 450 tons, special machines (front loaders, wheel bulldozers, wheel vehicles for metallurgic companies, aircraft haulers, irrigative machinery, automobile dump semitrailers, and consumer goods).
Engines for rock handlers are supplied by foreign companies such as Cummins (USA) and Deutz (Germany), less powerful ones are bought from Yaroslavl Automobile Plant and Ural Motor Plant (Russia).
The annual output equals 800-900 items. BelAZ produces heavy-duty trucks for open-cast mining in South-East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. (Prime-TASS/Business World Magazine)