What's Happening at Alminco

Alminco and Royal MINExpo 2008 Stand 964

Alminco will be exhibiting at MINExpo 2008, September (22nd - 24th) in conjunction with our United States partner Royal Hydraulic. We have jointly secured a 10ft x 30ft space within the Australian Trade Pavilion located in the exhibition North Hall stand number 964.

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Same Great Company, New Look & Feel
Welcome to the new look and feel Alminco website & brand. Alminco has built a solid reputation spanning almost thirty years within the Mining Industry and more recently Composites.
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Alminco Scorpion Cometh!
The Alminco Scorpion Crawler Rig is an air over hydraulic, track mounted drill rig used for the installation of secondary roof and rib support in underground roadways.
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Alminco Engineering Team Profile

The focus of a lot of time and energy within the engineering department at Alminco has been on updating and developing. The updated regulations within the mining industry have meant an increase in required support and documentation with all of Alminco’s products. The introduction of the Scorpion Crawler Rig to the product offering has meant a high degree of analysis and simulation to ensure a safe, quality performance based product suite and platform at a client level.

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Roof Bolting, Rib Bolting, Cable Bolting, Sample Drilling
Mining Equipment
Roof Support System
Mining & Civil Drilling Solutions
Air-powered, Alminco Bull Ant
Roof Bolting & Drilling Solutions

Quickduster: Underground Mining EquipmentStone dusting system

Our Alminco Quickduster represents one our finest heritage product offerings. Our customers describe the Alminco Quickduster as a versatile solution, featuring adaptations to take advantage of underground equipment such as loaders, mine vehicles and longwall chock carriers.

Alminco Quickduster Benefits
Hydraulic Operation: Alminco Quickduster unit operates off the vehicles hydraulics. Stone dust is fed into the hydraulic spinner motors via the flight bar conveyor. Alminco’s Quickduster spinner motors are utilised to throw the dust onto the rib, roof and floor.
Economic: Compare more than favourably on price to other stone dusting systems.
Smooth Operation: Clogging and bonding are problems of the past, our Alminco Quickduster is a leading solution offering an efficient discharge of dust at a great price.
Stone dust (calcium carbonate) is fed into hydraulic spinner motors via the flight bar conveyor situated at the bottom of the hopper. The spinner motors are used to throw the dust onto the roof, rib and floor of the roadway as the prime mover reverses up the roadway, against the flow of ventilation.

Hydraulic Requirements
  Hydraulic Circuit Setup*
Capacity Series   Parallel  
  Metric Imperial Metric Imperial
1.5 Tonne 68 Lpm 18 gpm 98 Lpm 26 Lpm
4 Tonne 75 Lpm 20gpm 106 gpm 28 gpm

Note: Figures quoted are @ 103 bar pressure (1500psi)

  • Spinner motors can be connected in series so that they receive oil one after the other or in parallel so that they receive oil simultaneously.