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Considered the second greater shovel of the world, the shovel of electrical excavation of 36 yd ³, was acquired thanks to the Program of Technological Adjustment that advances the company, specifically in the planning of Investments of Capital, by an amount of 16 million dollars, to increase the availability of the fleet of shovels, to diminish the times of load of trucks and to guarantee the volumes of excavation in the mine.

The official delivery of this machinery was realised in the shutdown of trucks of the Precipices, in the Iron-bearing Quadrilateral San Isidro, a small act organized by company P&H.

“With the acquisition of this equipment of last generation, FMO is put to the vanguard and happens to comprise of the great mining companies of the world”, announced Paulo Towers, general managing director of P&H Mining Equipment for Brazil and Venezuela, during their speech of opening.

Next, the construction company gave commemorative plaques by the event to the president of the industry, Radwan Sabbagh and to the manager of Mining, Eleazar Villalba, who was between the assistants.

President Sabbagh took the word to emphasize the fulfilled work, “I congratulate to the workers to have culminated the assembly of the shovel with 0 accidents and I am thankful for to the people of P&H by its degree of responsibility and commitment to him for the delivery of this huge equipment”.

“At time of crisis it is when the inventiveness emerges and when the successful companies must start up strategic plans. When many of them are closing, Ferrominera Orinoco is investing, improving its technical capability with one of the majors shovels of the world, demonstrating that in mining equipment we are on a par of main the industries of the sector”, also emphasized the first figure of FMO.

It is important to emphasize that with this modern equipment the lifting capacity in the shovels is increased, which represents a diminution from 6 3 the number of you pass in the cycle of load for trucks of 170 tons of capacity and one improvement in the filling of trucks of up to 50%. (It presses CVG-FMO)