SNIM Open Pit Iron Ore Mining - Mauritania - Mining ...
Open-pit mining: ore and waste have to be drilled and blasted before loading into 200t-capacity LeTourneau haul trucks. A P&H shovel equipped with a 26m³ bucket loading a 200t-capacity haul truck with iron ore at Guelb Rhein. Trains from the mines to the port are hauled by multiple General Electric diesel locomotives.