World''s Longest Ore Conveyor Australasian
Every hour, the belt moves 8,700 t of ore out of the mine and down to the processing plant, which is located at an altitude of 1,600 m. This massive volume of ore is large enough to fill some 200 heavyduty trucks. Without the conveyor belt, there would be no mine, says operations director Ricardo Funes Maggi, of mine operator Minera Los Pelambres.