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Projects

Lorbrand idlers, rollers and pulleys on overland, in-pit and underground conveyors at major mining operations around the world.

Idler frames laid out on site at Simandou, Guinea

Simandou

Almost 15,000 Lorbrand conveyor idlers carry ore at SimFer's Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea, part of Africa's largest greenfield mine-rail-port project.

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Cerro Verde Composite Rollers

Cerro Verde IPCC

Freeport-McMoRan brought Lorbrand back to Cerro Verde for the 2025 IPCC expansion, thirty years after the first roller supply, with idlers and pulleys for conveyors that take over part of the pit's diesel truck haulage.

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Pre-assembled belt feeder prior to loading for road transport to port

Nueva Centinela

Belt feeders for Centinela's new 95,000 t/d concentrator left South Africa fully assembled and test-run, with Lorbrand idlers and pulleys already fitted, and travelled to Chile as abnormal loads.

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Western Turner Syncline Conveyor

Western Turner Syncline 2

Rio Tinto chose a 13 km overland conveyor over truck haulage at Western Turner Syncline 2 in the Pilbara, cutting mine-gate greenhouse gas by about 3.5%, with Lorbrand carry idler frames and rollers.

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Chuquicamata overland conveyor

Chuquicamata Subterránea

Codelco's Chuquicamata underground mine carries its ore out on three 11,000 t/h principal conveyors, widely called the world's most powerful conveyor installation, running on Lorbrand idlers.

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Impumelelo Idlers with HDPE machined sleeves on conventional steel roller bodies were used for noise abatement

Impumelelo

Sasol's 26.8 km Impumelelo conveyor at Secunda, the world's longest single-flight conventional belt conveyor and still the record holder, runs on Lorbrand idlers and pulleys.

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Loaded iron ore conveyor at Khumani

Khumani

More than 90,000 Lorbrand rollers keep Assmang's greenfield Khumani iron ore mine moving, across a conveyor-intensive 10 Mt/y flowsheet in the Northern Cape.

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Overland - PC3

Henderson

Independent testing won Lorbrand exclusive idler supply for Henderson's 24 km three-flight overland conveyor, one of the most geometrically complex ever built, running through the old rail tunnels under the Continental Divide.

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Elevated Batu Hijau overland conveyor crossing the Sumbawa rainforest, Indonesia (1999)

Batu Hijau

Nearly three decades after commissioning, many of the original 1998 Lorbrand idler rollers still turn on Batu Hijau's 6.8 km overland ore conveyor in Sumbawa, Indonesia.

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RT Carry garlands with quick-release hooks

Radomiro Tomic

Lorbrand's first major Chilean reference: since 1995, its idlers and overland tables have carried 17 km of overland conveyors at Codelco's Radomiro Tomic copper mine, 3,000 m up in the Atacama.

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