Customer stories

In the buzzing outskirts of Seoul, in the city of Anyang, a transformative infrastructure project is quietly carving its way through bedrock. This is no ordinary excavation effort. It's a bold engineering project led by South Korean construction giant SK Ecoplant, powered by Sandvik's advanced MT720 roadheader and technology. Together, they are changing the way tunneling is done in Korea.

Gilbert Lamarche, Chief Operating Officer, Foran Mining Corporation, sat down with Solid Ground to discuss Foran’s flagship McIlvenna Bay project, the company’s vision for sustainable, responsible mining and the benefits of going all in on BEVs.

In the heart of Transylvania, Romania, lies a groundbreaking venture that has redefined the salt mining industry in Romania. Nestled just 12 kilometers from Dej, the Romanian mining company Salzbergwerk Ressourcen und Investitionen (SRL) started a pioneering project to establish the first private salt mine in the country. This project broke ground and started with excavation in 2022, marking a significant milestone in Romania’s salt-mining industry.

Boliden’s mine in Garpenberg in the middle of Sweden is the country’s most productive and oldest, still active mine. Here, Sandvik’s AutoMine® system used with the automated Toro™ loaders enable Boliden to ramp up ore production, attract a new type of operators, and become one of the world’s most modern mine sites.

Mo i Rana, Dunderland Valley. Eyeing the future of mining, Rana Gruber is making a gear switch and replacing its entire underground diesel fleet with battery electric vehicles from Sandvik. The goal? Becoming the world’s first CO2 emission-free mine by the end of 2025.

Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia. With more than 18,000 operating hours, underground mining’s largest battery-electric haul truck fleet is delivering marked productivity and environmental improvements for Newcrest’s Brucejack gold mine.

Perhaps best known for hosting the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, mountainous eastern South Korea is now home to the country’s first automated mining truck. Since implementation, the truck has proven its reliability, carrying load after load of limestone from underground to surface.

Kamloops, British Colombia. The industry’s first 18-tonne battery-electric loader is helping New Gold’s New Afton operation improve cycle times while reducing heat, noise and greenhouse gas emissions in Canada’s largest underground mine.

Veladero, Argentina. Five unstoppable Sandvik D90 crawler mounted blasthole drill rigs have been prospecting for gold in one of the world’s harshest environments – high up in the Andes – for over 16 years. With more than 100,000 hours on them each, these drills have been kept in top form, thanks to planning, parts and patience.

Kiruna, Sweden. The industry’s largest-capacity underground loader is helping the world’s largest underground iron ore mine stay at the forefront of technological development above the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden.

Port-Daniel– Gascons, Quebec. An unfortunate equipment breakdown proved to be a silver lining for the limestone quarry at Quebec’s newest cement plant.