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Surface Miners and Cross Application Miners

Extraction of primary resources and execution of large-scale infrastructure projects without drilling and blasting

Ruggedly-built Surface Miners are used for the extraction of a wide range of primary resources by cutting in open cast mines. Thanks to selective extraction, they achieve high degrees of material quality and enable optimal exploitation of mineral deposits. Cross Application Miners are purpose-built for frequently changing applications, particularly in the course of larger infrastructure projects. These machines therefore differ to some extent in terms of features, equipment and size and are therefore also easier to transport.

Cross Application Miners

Cross Application Miners are characterised by their suitability for a wide range of applications. For example, they are used on demanding infrastructure projects, for cutting road and rail routes, lowering tunnel floors and in the construction of harbours or water retention basins. Cutting drums are available for the mining of hard or soft rock. In most cases, the extracted material is loaded into road-legal construction site trucks with the machine’s integrated discharge conveyor. Due to frequently changing assignments, Cross Application Miners are easier to move from site to site than Surface Miners. Furthermore, the machines are designed and constructed to withstand only the typical stresses encountered on infrastructure construction sites, and are therefore not suitable for continuous mining operations.

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260 SXi

Surface miners

Cutting width max. Cutting width max. Standard cutting drum width	2 750 mm
Cutting depth Cutting depth The maximum cutting depth may deviate from the value indicated due to tolerances and wear	650 mm
Operating weight, CE Operating weight, CE Weight of machine, half weight of all operating agents, on-board tools, machine operator, no optional equipment features	102 900 kg

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Job report Limestone in Ukraine LO (EN-GB)

News & Job reports

The New Cutting Drum Expands the Range of Applications for Surface Miners in Hard Rock and Stone

The Wirtgen Group at MINExpo 2024

The 260 SX(i) is the first model of a new machine category at Wirtgen

The Wirtgen 260 SX(i) cross application miner

100 per cent mining – environmentally friendly, efficient and safe extraction of primary resources in a single operation

World premiere of the 280 SM(i) surface miner

Wirtgen 220 SMi 3.8 Surface Miner – High-Performance Chalk Mining in France

220 SMi 3.8 in France

Wirtgen’s 220 SM 3.8 is specialized in soft-rock mining and ensures that deposits are exploited more efficiently.

220 SM 3.8 at Indian Coal Mine

2200 SM and 2500 SM for consistently high production rates: Wirtgen supplies surface miners in a variety of performance classes for the selective mining of raw materials, such as coal, limestone, bauxite, gypsum, salt and phosphate.

Guinea: Bauxite mining with surface miners

Limestone has been mined from the Ube Isa quarry in Yamaguchi, Japan, since 1948.

Surface Miner 2500 SM Vario in Japan

Wirtgen’s 220 SM 3.8/220 SMi 3.8 surface miner selectively mines raw materials up to a cutting depth of 350 mm and a uniaxial compressive strength of 35 MPa.

Maximum Performance in Soft Rock

With a cutting width of 2.2 m and a cutting depth of up to 300 mm, the 220 SM/ 220 SMi can extract raw materials up to a uniaxial compressive strength of 50 MPa.

The New Wirtgen 220 SM/220 SM

All details, illustrations and texts are non-binding and may include special equipment. We reserve the right to make technical changes without prior notice. Performance data are dependent upon actual operational conditions.